Entrepreneur's Handbook

Inspirational stories plus practical takeaways from the entrepreneurship world. Today's guest is Ev Williams, the founder and CEO of Medium.com. He's been a titan of silicon valley for around two decades! His first major company was Blogger which was where the term "blog" was first popularized. He later went on to found Twitter and served as the platform's CEO. His latest and current venture is Me...

Inspirational stories plus practical takeaways from the entrepreneurship world. Today's guest is Aaron Dinin who is a professor of Entrepreneurship at Duke University. He has an unconventional background with a Ph. D. in English and a published fiction book. He then went on to create venture-backed tech businesses before a health scare forced him to re-evaluate. This made him move full-time into t...

Inspirational stories plus practical takeaways from the entrepreneurship world. Today's guest is Alexis Grant, the founder of TheyGotAcquired.com. Her website focuses on small startups that got acquired for between $100k and $50m which are often overlooked by the mainstream media. Alexis has a background in journalism herself before founding two companies that got acquired. The first was an agency...

Inspirational stories plus practical takeaways from the entrepreneurship world. Today's guest is Kartik Hosanagar, the founder and CEO of Jumpcut Media. After studying for his Ph. D., he became a professor at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. It was here that he founded Yodle with two of his students which went on to be acquired for $340 million. Kartik continued to teach and m...

Inspirational stories plus practical takeaways from the entrepreneurship world. Today's guest is Tim Denning, a massively successful content creator with 388k followers on LinkedIn and 240k followers on Medium. He's an expert in how to grow on these platforms which is a vital skill for any startup founder looking to gain attention and customers. He's used his huge following to power online courses...

Inspirational stories plus practical takeaways from the entrepreneurship world. Today's guest is Noam Schwartz, the founder of ActiveFence. They've raised $100M for their software which helps to keep the internet safe. They've got an A-list of client base with some of the biggest technology companies in the world. He previously led TapDog who were acquired by SimilarWeb where he worked as the VP o...

Inspirational stories plus practical takeaways from the entrepreneurship world. Today's guest is Nathan Barry, the founder of the email marketing platform ConvertKit. He started off as a freelance web designer and design book author. ConvertKit now powers the audience for over 20,000 creators including Tim Ferriss and Gretchin Rubin. The company is 100% bootstrapped and Nathan has revealed every b...

Inspirational stories plus practical takeaways from the entrepreneurship world. Today's guest is Marc Randolph, the Co-Founder of Netflix who has had an entrepreneurship career that spans four decades. He’s been a founder of more than half a dozen other successful start-ups, a mentor to scores of early-stage entrepreneurs, and an investor in numerous successful tech ventures (and an even larger nu...

Inspirational stories plus practical takeaways from the entrepreneurship world. Today's guest is David Salinas, a Co-Founder of Digital Surgeons and the current Chief Growth Officer. He previously served as the company's CEO where they serviced clients such as Lady Gaga and the US Open. He's also built a $25 million tech and innovation startup ecosystem called District. David started from nothing...

Inspirational stories plus practical takeaways from the entrepreneurship world. Today's guest is Adam Erhart, he's built a million-dollar business on his own terms from his YouTube channel. He has over 100k subscribers and nearly 5 million views. He's an expert in marketing and shares his views on his channel with an emphasis on being ethical. In this episode, he shares his journey and tips for ho...

Inspirational stories plus practical takeaways from the entrepreneurship world. Today's guest is Ryan Duffy, who is currently Head of Operations + Creator Partnerships for Audio at Medium. He co-founded the audio education platform, Knowable, which was acquired by Medium and features lessons from people such as NBA All-Star Chris Paul and Reddit Founder Alexis Ohanian. Before this, he founded Digi...

Inspirational stories plus practical takeaways from the entrepreneurship world. Today's guest is Erik Huberman, the founder and CEO of Hawke Media and author of The Hawke Method. His company is valued at over $150 million and is the fastest growing marketing agency in the United States. Erik has worked with over 3500 brands including Red Bull and Verizon. As a serial entrepreneur, Erik has receive...

Inspirational stories plus practical takeaways from the entrepreneurship world. Today's guest is Yoav Vilner, the CEO and Founder of Walnut. Yoav led a major marketing agency for several years but realized conversion rates for the leads were often low. This led him to create Walnut which aims to empower sales leaders to own their demos and to be outstanding storytellers without relying on back-end...

Inspirational stories plus practical takeaways from the entrepreneurship world. In this end-of-year special, we pick some of the best advice from all our guests in 2021. We've had the pleasure of talking to some incredible entrepreneurs this year and here you get the digestible snippets that will make a real difference to your own journey. We hope enjoy the episode and don't forget to share it wit...

Inspirational stories plus practical takeaways from the entrepreneurship world. Today's guest is Zeev Farbman. He's the CEO and Co-Founder of Lightricks. What started as a bootstrapped company between 5 Ph. D. friends has turned into a $1.8bn goliath in the app creation industry. They've created massively popular apps such as FaceTune, FaceTune 2, Videoleap, MotionLeap, and Boosted. Their most rec...

Inspirational stories plus practical takeaways from the entrepreneurship world. Today's guest is Prukalpa Sankar who was named The Economic Times Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year, a Forbes 30 under 30, and a Fortune 40 under 40. She's the founder of two major organizations. First, SocialCops helped revolutionize the use of data at organizations focused on good causes. This spawned Atlan which is...

Inspirational stories plus practical takeaways from the entrepreneurship world. Today's guest is Pete Sena, a brand experience expert. He founded Digital Surgeons in 2004 with only $5000 and it's now an 8-figure organization with over 50 employees. He's helped craft the story of people from Lady Gaga to United Technologies to the US Open. He continues to work with all different types of companies...

Inspirational stories plus practical takeaways from the entrepreneurship world. Today's guest is Regina Joseph. She was a pioneer of digital publication with the first-ever digital magazine, Blender, at a time when no one believed anyone would ever read online. She also created prototypes for the early forms of digital ads. She then went on to start one of the first-ever digital marketing agencies...

Inspirational stories plus practical takeaways from the entrepreneurship world. For our Cyber Monday special, marketing expert Liz Willits joins the Entrepreneur's Handbook's founder, Dave schools. Liz is one of the best marketers Dave has ever met. She has over 42k followers on LinkedIn and has her own marketing consultancy at LizWillits.com. She specializes in conversion copywriting for SaaS com...

Inspirational stories plus practical takeaways from the entrepreneurship world. Today's guest is Hasan Kubba, he's the author of the bestselling business book, The Unfair Advantage. It won The Business Book of the year at The Business Book Awards 2021 and is co-authored by former JustEat Marketing Director, Ash Ali. Hasan's first startup was a digital marketing agency which allowed him to earn a p...

Inspirational stories plus practical takeaways from the entrepreneurship world. Today's guest is Dave Schools! He's the founder of Entrepreneur's Handbook and hosted the previous episodes of this podcast. Interviewed by his editor, Amardeep, Dave talks about his experience as a multi-project entrepreneur and how it led him to becoming part of the founding team at Hopin. Very few people have ever b...

Inspirational stories plus practical takeaways from the entrepreneurship world. Sarah A. Downey is an operating partner at Accomplice VC, an angel investor, and the founder of an upcoming lifestyle app (currently in stealth).She is also one of Dave's new favorite human beings. She has magnetic energy, a sharp wit, and a deep wealth of knowledge about investing and startups. We hope enjoy the episo...

Inspirational stories plus practical takeaways from the entrepreneurship world. Today's guest is Geoff Cook, the founder of the Meet Group which was acquired by ProSieben for $500m. They created the popular apps of MeetMe, Tagged, Skout, LOVOO, and Tagged. He's now the Co-Ceo of the Parship Meet Group. He didn't go from 0 to $500m though and built up several companies beforehand, each one progress...