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A marketer builds an outsourcing business connecting Filipino employees with global employers, predating the rise of Upwork and Fiverr. The…
A Toronto startup employee and competitive powerlifter builds a custom-cake side hustle on the side, earning roughly $600 per month from…
After designing a memorable scavenger hunt for an anonymous Redditor, an account manager discovers the experience can be packaged and sold…
Identical twins self-publish ebooks and build an $8,000-per-month passive income stream while traveling to twelve countries. The episode…
A science and technology consultant moonlights as a sports, motorsports and luxury-lifestyle artist, selling artwork to affluent clients in…
Jason Fried, co-founder of Basecamp, discusses running an independent bootstrapped company with tens of millions in annual profit. Topics…
A Texas couple turns their experience helping students succeed into a profitable test-prep and academic consulting firm. The episode…
A Hawaiian musician turns a love of the ukulele into a touring and virtual-lesson business, teaching students one-on-one over Skype from…
Dianna Allen of Budget Meal Planner went from idea to thousands of signups, Lifehacker coverage, and three #1 Indie Hackers posts in two…
A paralegal becomes a serial entrepreneur after catching the travel bug, eventually relocating to Thailand and building a business teaching…
A voiceover artist and animation producer invents an inclusive line of culinary kitchen utensils, designing characters and products aimed…
Three partners start a healthy meal-prep and delivery service, scaling from $2,000 of initial capital to roughly $2 million in under five…
Hiten Shah of FYI (formerly KISSmetrics, Crazy Egg and 30+ products) discusses working on what matters, learning from failures, using…
A software engineer launches a premium cigar subscription box, curating and shipping cigars to enthusiasts on a recurring basis. The…
An appliance repairman in his spare time learns to make, sell, and repair custom lightsabers, building a niche fan-business around the Star…
A Brooklyn publicist launches a travel-themed jewelry line after an unseasonably rainy Memorial Day weekend prompted an unexpected business…
A chiropractor burned out after 20 years in practice reinvented herself as a 'smart luxury' travel blogger. The episode covers leaving a…
Pat Walls of Starter Story talks about quitting his job to go full-time on the bootstrapped Starter Story interview site. He also covers…
A nurse practitioner in Idaho launched a mobile urgent care service making house calls and grew it to a six-figure side hustle. The episode…
A new mom quit her job, started a handkerchief e-commerce store and scaled it to seven figures while her husband built a six-figure content…
An employee at a video game company turned a childhood love of adventure into a real-life escape room business, designing and operating…
A 13-year-old invented a home hair-grooming tool, sat on the idea for sixteen years, then relaunched it and saw viral demand nearly crash…
A college ministry leader with a Nigerian-heritage work ethic used social media to start a digital agency, landing clients and growing the…
Eric Zhang, formerly of an open-source startup that went through Y Combinator, joined Scalable Press, a bootstrapped print-on-demand…
