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A Failure Friday episode revisiting the co-founders of Dancakes, an international pancake art brand previously profiled on episode 1,000.…
Sam and Shaan break down Harvard Business Review / HBP's billion-dollar case-study publishing arm, how to get in on the case-study game,…
AJ, solo founder of Carrd (a simple one-page website builder), grew the product from about $30K MRR to over $1M ARR in two years and…
An aerospace manager who decided to embrace her gray hair launched a blog aimed at women going gray, and grew it into roughly $6,000/month…
A 7th-grade English teacher uses his writing skills on the side, crafting them for others to land their dream jobs. The episode covers how…
A Failure Friday story from Jonathan Fields, author of Sparked, about the morning his popular yoga studio had a VIP guest and the sound…
Modern-day infomercial playbook: Guthy-Renker direct-response TV, trust-as-a-service businesses, content-business subscription models,…
John O'Nolan, founder of Ghost (the open-source publishing platform and newsletter tool), discusses deliberate constraints that shape how…
A dinosaur-loving couple started a niche podcast about ancient reptiles, eventually publishing more than 350 episodes and turning it into a…
A Utah dad runs a seasonal paddleboard rental side hustle that benefited from pandemic demand for outdoor activities, with Google Maps…
A Failure Friday episode featuring the founder of a consulting training firm who, against his instincts, hired an overseas virtual…
Updated 'Sara's List' of 12 established startups with the potential to 5–10x over five years and turn stock grants into millions: Flexport,…
Sam and Shaan discuss Laird Hamilton's publicly-traded Superfood, the MFM NFT launch, a 'Stripe for vice' story, whether people should lie…
James Layfield bootstrapped Clearfind with about $3M of his own capital and pitches it as a way for founders to be their own VC by finding…
Sam and Shaan discuss a Bill Gates-style think week focused on crypto, Wilbur Wright storytelling, real estate Twitter, niche content…
A mom of two started freelance writing to avoid returning to full-time work; an assignment for a women's fitness site led her to clone the…
A D.C. resident originally from Hong Kong used Facebook Marketplace to build a $4,000/month houseplant hustle, leaning on Feng Shui…
Failure Friday with Meredith Golden, founder of a dating transparency app. The segment covers her struggles to launch and the lessons…
Julian Shapiro of Demand Curve talks through growth tactics the agency has observed across many SaaS launches, plus how he grew his…
Shaan and Sam debate owning direct-to-consumer ecommerce businesses, including ad spend, purchase multipliers, Whoop and Allbirds, Loot,…
When her district went remote, a P.E. teacher and former pro volleyball player started daily livestreams on YouTube. Within two months she…
A Miami man waiting in a food-truck line discovered no-code app builders and now earns a substantial side income building apps for clients…
Failure Friday with a boudoir photographer who promoted a webinar to 400 attendees, only for the platform to cap out at 50. The segment…
Shaan and Sam discuss asking for a raise, the $75K happiness study, the future of maps, local MMA fights, Pacasso-style fractional vacation…
