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Louis Nicholls of Sales for Founders built an email list and sold a course teaching sales to founders, generating over $40,000 across three…

A Maine couple rejects traditional financing and bootstraps a boutique fitness studio from savings, growing it into a joint full-time…

After being laid off, a former journalist cracks Kindle self-publishing by writing niche non-fiction eBooks and scaling to roughly $7,000…

An Ohio high-school teacher launches a baseball pitching academy as a six-figure side business. He monetises his coaching expertise with…

An entrepreneur creates a goal-setting journal called The Hero's Journal, structured around Joseph Campbell's classic monomyth/hero's…

A North Carolina carpenter who forages mushrooms starts selling mushroom extracts as a side business from his woodworking and outdoor…

Josh Wood of Honeybadger, a developer-focused error and performance monitoring tool doing over $1M/year, talks about going from freelance…

A weekly recap episode highlighting lessons from the milestone 1,000th episode of the season, with a short audio update from a previous…

A couple leaves big-city life to travel full-time in an RV and starts a business helping fellow RVers get online with connectivity gear and…

A St. Louis diner cook who makes customers smile with pancake art teams up with a friend to do event appearances, eventually building a…

Mubashar Iqbal of Pod Hunt, a maker of 80+ side projects, talks about building consumer-facing products and why product-founder fit should…

An Alaskan wildlife biologist already running an outdoor-blanket business spots a gap in pond-hockey gloves and becomes the only brand…

A New Zealand advertising executive and artist builds an Instagram scheduling app that grows to hundreds of thousands of users. The…

A grocery store manager who hit a weightlifting plateau invents and sells micro weight plates, building the product through direct…

Patrick Campbell, founder of ProfitWell (a SaaS for subscription analytics), cashed out his 401k in 2012 to bootstrap his business. He grew…

A teenager who earned a perfect SAT score builds a tutoring business that grows into a $20M operation while still in college. The episode…

Two Montana coworkers use welding skills to start a side hustle keeping brewery equipment up to code. The description offers no revenue,…

A mortgage loan officer combines her nautical background with design skills to launch geographically personalized jewelry. The description…

Steli Efti, founder of Close.com (a profitable CRM doing many millions in revenue), shares founder-specific sales tactics. He covers…

Inspired by a family member's Type 1 Diabetes diagnosis, a serial side hustler invents a sticky product addressing a related everyday…

An analytics manager and adjunct teacher builds a coding-education platform to help non-technical students learn to code, creating…

An Atlanta lawyer launches a walking food-tour business that grows into a multiple-six-figure annual operation. The episode covers how he…

Two friends design a compact camera accessory called the SwitchPod and raise $415,748 on Kickstarter. The description emphasizes…

Justin Jackson of Transistor, a podcast hosting SaaS, talks about the outsized impact of choosing the right market as a founder. He covers…