Final installment of a Dell-sponsored series on asymmetrical opportunities. It profiles Shoji Morimoto, a Japanese 'Rent-a-Stranger' who…
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A guide to the courses industry (types, how to build and grow them), an interview-style breakdown of how IPaaS (Irish Pub as a Service) is…
Milestone Q&A episode where a listener with a product review site worries about over-reliance on Google search traffic. The host discusses…
Rob Walling of Tinyseed and Startups For The Rest of Us surveys current SaaS trends indie hackers should watch: opportunities in podcasting…
A Lutheran pastor runs a subscription box aimed at fellow ministers, using it to create financial breathing room alongside her clergy work.…
A New Jersey beekeeper turns his beekeeping hobby into a money-making side hustle, monetizing honey and related products. No specific…
A Failure Friday episode about a full-time blogger who migrates to YouTube. His first video succeeds, leading him to assume the next one…
Part of a Dell-sponsored series on asymmetrical opportunities. This installment features a Dallas man who learns to pre-order…
Sam and Shaan dig into the Sanctuary astrology app controversy (VCs calling it pseudoscience), brainstorm 'make-it-about-me' businesses…
Sam and Shaan on three different million-dollar businesses: a virtual horse-racing company doing millions (Sam tried to invest), a DTC…
Nathan Barry of ConvertKit discusses growing the creator-economy email tool from $7M to $27M ARR over three years, including their first…
Furqan Rydhan (co-founder of AppLovin, Shaan's CTO at Bebo) on his new venture f.inc, how AppLovin became $20B+, bullish hardware, DeFi and…
A Cleveland woman designs and sells a specialized accessory bag for active dog walkers, working through prototyping challenges before the…
A therapist and single mom earns extra income by helping other therapists launch their own private practices, packaged as a business course…
Breaking down UFC's profitability after Endeavor's IPO: Dana White's talent retention, the mental toughness of UFC fighters, self-talk as a…
A Failure Friday segment about the co-founder of a wellness planner brand who tried to cut out the middleman by manufacturing directly with…
A Dell-sponsored bonus episode introduces the concept of an 'asymmetrical opportunity' (low risk, high upside). The first example is a…
Courtland hosts Chris Justin and Eathan Janney from the Run With It podcast for a brainstorm of 2021 business ideas: VTOL flying cars,…
Balaji Srinivasan on the media and its biases, memes and their importance, the future of media with crypto, when he first got into crypto,…
A French engineer moved to Mexico and built a business making custom silver jewelry. No revenue, margin, or startup cost numbers are given…
A grief counselor whose world was upended by COVID turned to her old baking hobby and started selling baked goods, with the episode teasing…
A Failure Friday segment about a voiceover artist who built a popular app for actors and then struck out trying to design an online course.…
Idea-heavy episode: a 'Barstool for tech and business' media brand, why software-course companies are valued so high, NYC and…
Courtland interviews Collin Waldoch, founder of Water Cooler Trivia, a remote-friendly team trivia game played via web. Waldoch grew the…






