Dan Porter (OMGPop / Draw Something / Overtime) recounts selling Draw Something to Zynga for ~$200M only six weeks after launch, after…
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HoldCo Bros update on the stump grinding business: a listener turned it into $32K in two months; they share cold-call market research with…
Neer Sharma walks through six startup ideas: (1) Baby Fund — JustGiving for parents investing in a child's future via index tracker funds;…
Solo episode on validating a business idea for $15, plus listener questions on monetising a local newsletter, building an AI underwriting…
Riff on Peter Thiel's 'one priority' philosophy, three lies founders tell themselves, the story of Zuck closing a $1B deal in 48 hours,…
An urban-farming enthusiast built a consulting side hustle helping city dwellers and restaurants set up aquaponics systems, charging for…
Cody Schneider's eight data-backed startup ideas: a sweaty-startup playbook (window/power/lawn cleaning scaled into a holdco), a…
Andrew Wilkinson recounts going from a $6.50/hr barista to millionaire in four years: the four 'level ups' (day job to self-employed to…
A Failure Friday episode about a Lego reseller who took a deal that seemed too good to be true and learned a hard lesson about integrity…
Guest Quinn Miller walks through his California vending and ATM empire: cold-calling for locations, product selection, scaling challenges,…
Jonathan Courtney and Greg discuss entrepreneurship burnout, hiring a CEO, the holdco/multipreneur model, ideas-vs-execution, and two…
Brett Goldstein (ex-Launch House, ex-Clearbit) walks through four ideas — conference event aggregator + social, vertical SaaS for…
Q&A episode: Korey asks about launching stadium/event pod-storage lockers, Alec asks about a phone case with an LED NFT display, NFC chip…
A linguist with a passion for accessibility turned Braille translation of documents and materials into a side hustle serving schools,…
Kevin Van Trump (Van Trump Report, ~$18M ARR run by 4 people) explains how a rural farm kid built a paid commodities-trading newsletter,…
A Failure Friday episode about an SEO consultant who outsourced client work to an unvetted agency and suffered when that agency produced…
Lessons re-packaged from Ed Thorp (mathematics of gambling, world's first hedge fund), the book The Game, the Feynman learning technique,…
A beginner's guide to stock picking presented as a 'detective' framework: choose a strategy, comb through the company's profile, review its…
Interview about Pigeon Forge Snow, an indoor sledding attraction, and how its model could be copied toward a $6M/year business. Topics…
Chris pitches accredited investors on an $8.6M RV park acquisition in Shreveport, LA, explaining the plan to double investor money in 3-5…
Sam and Shaan trace the $500B Ozempic business back to processed food, the Flexner Report, doctors' lack of nutrition training, the…
Jonathan Courtney on a single startup idea: Career Transition Coaching (help people move from careers they hate to careers they love),…
Sabri Suby (King Kong) shares five zero-capital business ideas: Done-For-You Channel Growth (an agency that grows clients' YouTube/social),…
A home cook built an affiliate blog reviewing high-end kitchen tools, earning commissions on purchases driven by her reviews and recipes.…


















