Entrepreneur's Handbook

Inspirational stories plus practical takeaways from the entrepreneurship world. With combined revenues of over $100 million, serial entrepreneur Michael Girdley leaks his secrets in creating multiple multi-million dollar companies.“You don’t learn much about being entrepreneurial from being an employee”. After leaving a large tech firm and learning substantially more from running his family’s busi...

Inspirational stories plus practical takeaways from the entrepreneurship world. Founder and CEO Gautam Tambay reveals how Springboard has created $300 million worth of new job offers and is beating grad school in job success rate.“What we first put out there was a terrible idea”. After turning a 5% course completion rate into 50%. Gautam highlights the essential practices to diagnose problems in o...

Inspirational stories plus practical takeaways from the entrepreneurship world. Start-up expert and Ori CEO Jason Foster tells the story of how he went from a $19k a year job to becoming CEO of a company helping patients get access to life-saving cancer treatment. ‘You learn from your failures as much as your successes, maybe more’. With his first start-up collapsing after 10 months, Jason here ex...

Welcome to the Entrepreneur's Handbook Podcast, where we share inspiring startup stories and practical takeaways for you, the listener. Today's guest is Kara GoLdin, the founder of Hint Water. They are a beverage company that makes good-tasting drinks, without all of the bad stuff. Kara's got a really interesting story to tell you about why she founded the company in the first place. The company r...

Inspirational stories plus practical takeaways from the entrepreneurship world. Welcome to the Entrepreneur's Handbook Podcast, where we share inspiring startup stories and practical takeaways for you, the listener. Today's guest is Stubblebine, the brand new CEO of Medium. Tony's had a long career in the tech world, having worked for multiple companies and also built multiple of his own start-ups...

Inspirational stories plus practical takeaways from the entrepreneurship world. Welcome to the Entrepreneur's Handbook Podcast, where we share inspiring startup stories and practical takeaways for you, the listener. Today's guest is Sid Menon, who's the founder and CEO of Tegro. It's a company that's aiming to fix economics, market quants, and liquidity in Web3 gaming. Before Tegro, Sid co-founded...

Inspirational stories plus practical takeaways from the entrepreneurship world. Welcome to the Entrepreneur's Handbook Podcast, where we share inspiring startup stories and practical takeaways for you, the listener. Today's guest is the CEO and founder of Gravity Sketch. It's an intuitive 3D design platform designed to help teams review, collaborate and create in an innovative way. They've raised...

Inspirational stories plus practical takeaways from the entrepreneurship world. Today's guest is Maria, a General Partner at Kindred Capital. They are venture capitalists who focus on the European tech scene. Maria has a varied background herself having worked in both small startups and huge corporates. She has worked in India, UK, Australia, Brazil and New York. Maria is particularly passionate a...

Inspirational stories plus practical takeaways from the entrepreneurship world. Welcome to the Entrepreneur's Handbook Podcast, where we share inspiring startup stories and practical takeaways for you, the listener. Today's guest is Anton, a co-founder, and the CEO of Sweatcoin. Sweatcoin is an app that pays you to do exercise. It might sound too good to be true, as many people have tried in the p...

Inspirational stories plus practical takeaways from the entrepreneurship world. Today's guest is best-selling author and serial entrepreneur Dave Kerpen. He's founded companies such as Likable, Apprentice, and Remembering Life. His latest book is called The Art of the People and it's only recently released. On top of this, he’s built a huge audience on social media, and it's got nearly 700,000 fol...

Inspirational stories plus practical takeaways from the entrepreneurship world. Today's guest is Dru Riley, the founder of Trends.vc. Now, a few years ago, Dru did what many of us would love to do, he quit his nine to five and just traveled and took a sabbatical for years. He learned about himself. He learned about what made him tick, and eventually, he decided it was time to get back to work. He...

Inspirational stories plus practical takeaways from the entrepreneurship world. Today’s guest is Nihal Mehta, the founder of Eniac Ventures. They invest in bold leaders who use code to create transformational companies. They especially focus on seed rounds and early-stage companies. Before becoming a venture capitalist, Nihal created 5 companies himself. Some of these went bankrupt and others were...

Inspirational stories plus practical takeaways from the entrepreneurship world. Today's guests are Mark Tilbury and Curtis Tilbury who run multiple businesses and make millions of dollars per year. They built the Mark Tilbury brand which has 7 million TikTok subscribers, over 1 million on YouTube and hundreds of thousands elsewhere. They want to help their audience to strike it big and become weal...

Inspirational stories plus practical takeaways from the entrepreneurship world. Today's guest is Jason Yanowitz. The founder and CEO of Blockworks. It’s a financial media company that has grown rapidly since its inception in 2018. They have over 50 employees and run an editorial site, a newsletter, and multiple podcasts - which now have the biggest podcast network in the cryptocurrency space. He a...

Inspirational stories plus practical takeaways from the entrepreneurship world. Today’s guest is Nabil Borhanu who is the founder of Graphene Ventures. They invested in both Snap and Lyft before their IPOs. He’s got a very interesting background having grown up in Saudi Arabia. He worked his way up by starting multiple companies and running divisions worth over $100 million dollars with massive cl...

Inspirational stories plus practical takeaways from the entrepreneurship world. Today's guest is Justin Welsh. He’s got massive audiences on both LinkedIn and Twitter. He started by working on start-ups where he helped build two companies to 50 million in annual recurring revenue. He also helped businesses raise over 300 million in venture capital but along this path, he burnt out and that’s where...

Inspirational stories plus practical takeaways from the entrepreneurship world. Today's guest is Vasu Prathipati, the founder of MaestroQA. Vasu didn’t have an easy journey to where he is today. He struggled to get a job after University and then build a business that for many years didn’t quite seem that it was ever going to take off. Now they’ve got over 31 million in funding. Their clients are...

Inspirational stories plus practical takeaways from the entrepreneurship world. Today's guest is Greg Jackson, the founder and CEO of Octopus Energy. He's one of our favorite guests ever! He's a serial entrepreneur who has run multiple successful businesses while believing strongly in doing the right thing. His current company Octopus Energy was founded in 2016 and is already worth $5bn with $6bn...

Inspirational stories plus practical takeaways from the entrepreneurship world. Today's guest is Sam King a.k.a Sam King FTW. He started a YouTube channel aged just 16 which blew up and supported his lifestyle for several years with 160k followers. He realized he loved the marketing side of his channel the most so then started up his own marketing agency. Now he's a Co-Founder of Flick. Tech, a Sa...

Inspirational stories plus practical takeaways from the entrepreneurship world. Today's guest is Dickie Bush who you might know from Twitter where he has amassed 200k followers in just over 2 years. He started writing online as he realized his corporate career with Blackrock isn't where he wanted his life to go. After 9 months of struggle, he finally had a breakthrough, and ever since he's been he...

Inspirational stories plus practical takeaways from the entrepreneurship world. Today's guest is Corey Haines who is a serial entrepreneur. He's the founder of both SwipeFiles and SwipeWell and other stealth startups. He's currently the Marketing Lead at SavvyCal, a disruptive calendar SaaS company. Corey is an expert in B2B SaaS marketing and has consulted for many other projects. Corey has two o...

Today is a special announcement! Entrepreneur's Handbook is bringing you the Crypto Handbook where we share content from the blockchain world. We maintain our high editorial standard and publish only people with credibility in the space. We make sure all articles are understandable to people who are interested in the but not yet experts. Our founder, Dave Schools spills all the details in this epi...

Inspirational stories plus practical takeaways from the entrepreneurship world. Today's guest is Jereshia Hawk, the founder, and CEO of Leverage which is a coaching experience. After just a few short years in business, she's already earning over $1 million per year in profit with a 60-80% profit margin. She's also the host of the JereshiaSaid podcast. You can learn all about how she built her empi...

Inspirational stories plus practical takeaways from the entrepreneurship world. Today's guest is Avishai Sam Bitton, the current VP of Marketing and Growth at 8fig. They recently closed a Series A for $50m. It's a company that helps eCommerce sellers to scale up to 8 figures. Avishai himself is a serial founder having created both Oribi and Brainye. Oribi was sold to LinkedIn and Brainye remains i...

Inspirational stories plus practical takeaways from the entrepreneurship world. Today's guest is Sandhya Hegde, a General Partner at Unusual Ventures who leads investment in enterprise SaaS companies. She's built deep expertise in this area through working for multiple venture capital firms (including Khosla Ventures and Sequoia) as well as founding her own companies and being an early hire at oth...