Acquiring Minds
$33m Holdco: Teddy Bears to Insurance Claims | Colin King InterviewColin King describes building Circle City Capital Group to $33 million of revenue across 17 acquisitions since 2018, ranging from teddy…
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My First Million
3 businesses we think are about to blow upSam and Shaan profile three trend businesses they expect to take off: an oxytocin-dosing product or service tapping the booming…
Starter Story
This unbelievable app idea makes $50K/monthLino went from never having built an app to growing his first iOS app to over $50K per month in about six months. The episode covers how he…
Side Hustle SchoolEp. 3564 - STORY: Physical Therapist Sells 57,000 “Neck Hammocks”SOURCE CONVERSATION
Side Hustle School
Ep. 3564 - STORY: Physical Therapist Sells 57,000 “Neck Hammocks”A physical therapist invented a portable device to relieve his own workout-injury neck pain, patented it, and sold 57,000 Neck Hammocks.…
The Koerner Office
I Let Strangers Pitch Me Their Business LiveA live Shark Tank-style pitch event featuring ten founders selected from over 250 applicants, judged by Koerner alongside Nikonomics…
Side Hustle SchoolEp. 3562 - Failure Friday: “My app kept crashing during the big pitch…”SOURCE CONVERSATION
Side Hustle School
Ep. 3562 - Failure Friday: “My app kept crashing during the big pitch…”A founder of a project management tool recounts an early pitch to a major investor where the app kept crashing. The Failure Friday episode…
The Koerner Office
I Tested How Passive This AI Side Hustle Really IsA solo test of using AI agents and email automation to sell a tiny consulting offer. The workflow connects Claude to Omnisend with MCP,…
Acquiring Minds
The $150k Hiding in the Business He Bought | Patrick Dunphy InterviewPatrick Dunphy bought JS Languages, a low-seven-figure agency that places human interpreters in courts, hospitals, and schools, after…
Greg Isenberg
Masterclass: How FDEs make $1M/yr deploying AI agentsVas from Varick explains the Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) model: process reengineering first, then AI agents built inside systems of…
My First Million
We tested Instinct, Muse and Grokbot. They’re ridiculous.Sam and Shaan test and review three AI products: Instinct, Muse and Grokbot, comparing their intelligence and usefulness in a 'highest ELO…
Mark Tilbury
Investing For Beginners in 75 MinutesA 75-minute beginner's investing guide from a creator with 40 years of experience. It walks through why to invest, how much, picking a…
Starter Story
I Built a $30K/Month Business From a Remote Island (How I Work)Founder Milly runs a $30K/month business from a tiny remote island with a team of two, built around a calm lifestyle rather than aggressive…
Side Hustle Nation
I Went Shopping for $675/Month Cash Flow Businesses (Live Walkthrough)Joe Burrill of Just Website Brokerage walks through live Flippa listings and explains how to read profit multiples, spot red flags, and…
The Koerner Office
He Makes $27K/Month Sending Text MessagesInterview with Aaron Fooks, founder of Hytros, who built a referral business that produced $27K in a single month by connecting local…
Greg Isenberg
OpenAI DevDay: Dots, Agents & $100B OpportunitiesGreg recaps OpenAI Dev Day 2026 and pulls out four launches he thinks will mint money: Dots (a personal agent platform with 1.2B weekly…
Greg Isenberg
$5T opportunity: AI Roll UpsGreg argues a $5T wave of retiring-owner small businesses (accounting, property management, support centers) is now buyable by solo…
Side Hustle SchoolEp. 3558 - First $1,000: “Beekeeping is forced zen: be present or get stung!”SOURCE CONVERSATION
Side Hustle School
Ep. 3558 - First $1,000: “Beekeeping is forced zen: be present or get stung!”Frank Mortimer, the 'Bee Man of New Jersey,' describes starting a beekeeping side hustle selling honey at farmers markets. The lessons…
The Koerner Office
I Thought I Understood Credit Cards Until I Talked to This GuyInterview with Brandon Elliott of Credit Counsel Elite, who went from a $30K/year busboy job to funding real estate and business deals with…
My First Million
There’s proof that we are living in a simulation! (ft. MIT Scientist)An MIT-affiliated guest joins Sam and Shaan to argue the simulation hypothesis, weaving in ancient religions, quantum physics, UFO/glitch…
MicroConf
What to Outsource (and What to Keep): A Bootstrapped Founder FrameworkKevin Graham, founder of bootstrapped hosting portfolio Site Arrow, applies Jeff Bezos's 'beer taste' test to SaaS work and walks through…
Acquiring Minds
How to Buy a $2.1m Business Without the SBA | Jack Rauch InterviewJack Rauch and his brother bought Tew & Taylor, a Florida private provider for building plan review and inspections, for $2.1 million…
The Koerner Office
The Most Profitable AI Business You've Never Heard OfChris demonstrates an AI email-marketing service where he charges local businesses $1,000/month to revive their dormant email lists, using…
Starter Story
I built this website in 8 hours with Claude. Now it makes $40K/monthFrank, a non-technical founder, used Claude over a weekend to build an app that now does $40K/month. The episode covers how he found the…
Side Hustle SchoolEp. 3557 - STORY: Amsterdam Bike Tours Become Passive Profit CenterSOURCE CONVERSATION
Side Hustle School
Ep. 3557 - STORY: Amsterdam Bike Tours Become Passive Profit CenterA traveler in Amsterdam turned the attempt to cover rent into one of the city's premier bike-tour companies. The business is a local guided…