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A blogger in India built a site around personal-finance product reviews and rankings, monetising primarily through affiliate commissions…
Natalie Nagele (Behind the Cloud) and DHH (Basecamp) debate hustle culture and work-life balance. Both bootstrapped to millions but with…
A pharmacist who missed the deep friendships from her college years created a conversation-card product: a deck of prompts that strangers…
Frustrated by warm beer, a college dropout invents an insulated beverage sleeve and builds it into a multi-million dollar brand. The…
Sam Eaton, a software engineer, helped his sister launch Crave Cookie, a cookie delivery business now bringing in hundreds of thousands of…
After five years of HR freelancing, a recruiter launches a marketplace platform that connects employers with talent. The episode covers…
A longtime social media fan (since AOL days) channels her wedding obsession and online communications skills into a wedding marketing…
Greg Isenberg, founder of community-design firm Late Checkout, explains his theory that the best products come from unbundling parts of…
A seasoned traveler takes a soap-making course while living in China, then years later opens an Etsy shop selling handmade soap. The…
Sam and Shaan cover Nigerian scammers, a fake airport sold for $240M, a ride-share referral-system hustler, Cisco spinouts, baseball cards,…
This video explains DuckDuckGo as a private search engine and browser that uses fewer ads and avoids tracking personal data. The…
An aspiring dancer in New York takes odd side jobs, then launches a staffing agency that places performers in gigs. The episode covers…
Shaan and Sam discuss how entrepreneurs can train themselves to see business opportunities in everyday details and estimate risk and…
Sam Parr shares his mindset on investing, arguing that chasing money can be draining and that he prefers doing something cool while…
Noah Kagan explains three principles of marketing strategy for any business, covering audience and niche definition, core messaging,…
An Indian sales professional starts giving free advice on Quora and discovers a skill he can charge for, eventually turning it into paid…
Noah Kagan (OkDork / AppSumo) on why every content creator should use email, why he built SendFox after constant friction with Mailchimp,…
An early-COVID pitch for DuckDuckGo as a privacy-first browser: complete data privacy vs Google, asks whether users care enough to switch…
An IT manager gets fit at his desk job, then starts a part-time personal training side business to coach others. The episode covers turning…
An out-of-work Brooklyn academic finds discarded fine china and learns to upcycle similar pieces into tiered cake stands sold online. The…
Breakdown of Arc Publishing, the Washington Post's SaaS spin-out (later sold to Cox), which is on track to $100M+ revenue. Sam walks…
Two college students launch a custom t-shirt business, designing and selling shirts as a student side hustle. The episode covers…
Moiz Ali interviews Jake Kassan (MVMT Watches, sold to Movado) — going from credit-card debt to a ~$100M exit, operational issues at…
Episode 06/11/2020: Arc Publishing (Washington Post internal CMS, $100M+ SaaS), Snapchat vs Facebook/Instagram, Koch brothers (and the…
