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A substitute teacher hosts Tupperware-style sign-making parties where guests use her stencils to craft wooden signs, earning about…
A woman who worked in the music industry without performing discovers a hidden talent for DJing and earns roughly $200/hour on the side,…
David Darmanin tells how two failed startups led to Hotjar, which grew to roughly $10 million in revenue within two and a half years by…
A Mexican artist uploads a timelapse drawing to YouTube, builds an audience of 50 million views, and turns the channel into a sustainable…
A former construction inspector who aces the licensing exams packages those exams into a course series for new entrants, reportedly earning…
A 13-year-old in Australia sells 50–75 lollipops a day at 100% margin to other kids at school, building a pocket-change following on her…
An ER nurse whose first attempt at a wellness blog stalls abandons it, refocuses on nutrition coaching through CrossFit, and signs up 19…
A former construction company owner who can't find help installing a TV builds a gig platform connecting homeowners to contractors.
Pilot founder Jessica McKellar (formerly Dropbox director of engineering/product/design) on launching a B2B bookkeeping startup: the origin…
An HR professional at a corporate job turns his coffee obsession into a workplace coffee subscription business.
Rachel Sumekh on founding Swipe Out Hunger — a nonprofit that redirects unused college-meal-plan credits to feed food-insecure students —…
A corporate refugee moves to Florida after a personal catalyst and starts a side hustle leading adult scooter tours of his new city.
Designer-turned-founder Tobias van Schneider (Semplice, among other products) talks about his pattern of going against convention in…
Elizabeth Yin (Hustle Fund co-founder, ex-500 Startups partner) tells the unglamorous truth of being a female founder: a multi-time founder…
A Los Angeles family-run prop shop supplies fake meth labs, body parts and gore to shows like Breaking Bad and Game of Thrones; it started…
A published novelist builds an online course teaching productivity for writers and reaches 3,700 students in year one, adding roughly…
A follow-up to an earlier book-deal episode, this extended cut lists 11 marketing tactics for promoting a book or other creative project…
An oil and gas project manager works nights to build an eco-conscious candle line, selling candles for personal profit while donating a…
A Silicon Valley program manager frustrated by poor workplace culture launches a conference on the topic; within two years it is doing six…
Three teachers pool their skills to launch a non-sports summer camp for nerdy kids, getting creative in year two to actually pay themselves…
Mike Carson runs Park.io, a service that catches and resells expired .io domain names, and was making roughly $125,000/month solo at the…
Inspired by the earlier Craigslist wedding photographer story, a woman in Australia with newly learned floral arranging skills books $7,500…
A Minnesota wine store employee fields requests from a lawyer who wants tasting lessons, realizes there's a market for his knowledge, and…
A musician starts with a drum kit left at his house, builds a lifelong percussion practice, and turns it into a six-figure podcast about…
