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Even though he started his educational journey as a physicist, Jon Miller has become one of the biggest heroes of internet marketing automation and helping businesses create and employ sophisticated marketing campaigns that match today's customer expectations. He co-founded Marketo, one of the industry leaders in marketing automation software, and there's a lot to learn from what he has to say abo...

Today I'm talking to Neil Patel, one of my mentors who's ran many successful companies and is a rock star of the internet marketing world. We tried to avoid the typical questions he gets asked during interviews, and instead delve deeper into topics like mentoring, business partnerships, and what it was like to be in the trenches of a startup no one wanted to fund, but turned into a huge success. C...

Hey guys, today's interview is with Joe Fairless, who runs a really popular real estate investing podcast. In this episode, we're going to talk about real estate investing, investing in general, and how you can get started with real estate investing. There's a lot to learn here: both about investing and creating a successful business. Joe also shares an exclusive discount for Growth Everywhere lis...

Hey everyone, today we’re talking to CEO of Lua, Michael DeFranco - a 26-year-old entrepreneur who grew up with two entrepreneurial parents. He has a really interesting story to share. He’s worked with the Brooklyn Nets and the Super Bowl by providing an enterprise mobile messaging app, and he’ll explain its differences from WeChat and WhatsApp. Click here for show notes. Leave some feedback: What...

In today’s interview we’re talking to Ian White who is the CTO and Co-Founder of Sailthru, an online personalization technology he and his team had to bootstrap for two years while no one believed in it. Now they’re doing low seven-figure business deals and seeing much more success. Today, Ian will talk about the importance of hiring technical talent, adjusting to changes, and what you should do w...

Today I have the pleasure of working with Michael Michalowicz, author of Profit First. Michael grew several companies while an EO member, sold one private equity and sold yet another to a Fortune 500. But he credits the most interesting part of the entrepreneurial journey with losing money and struggling with failure. Click here for show notes and transcript. Leave some feedback: What should I tal...

Today we're speaking with StumbleUpon CEO, Mark Bartels. Mark was born in South Africa and worked as an accountant before moving to the Bay Area. After working in mergers and acquisitions with companies like Deloitte & Touche, he joined StumbleUpon in 2008. While working as their CFO, StumbleUpon spun themselves off from eBay before taking the reigns as CEO. Click here for show notes and transcrip...

Welcome to Growth Everywhere. Today I’m talking with Craftsy Founder & CEO John Levisay. Craftsy teaches you creative skills on an online platform that recreates the benefits of a live classroom with the convenience of learning on your device at your own pace. John comes from a background in finance and accounting, but his time at eBay helped shape his perception of the power of niche communities....

Welcome to Growth Everywhere, today I’m talking with Yesware CEO Matthew Bellows. Matthew is a self-described professional startup person who has worked on them in some capacity his entire career. He’s worked in sales, marketing, and on the product side. Today he runs Yesware, which helps sales people and their companies reach their full potential and become more successful, grow faster, make more...

Today I have the great pleasure of speaking with Ron Klein who is also known as the grandfather of possibilities. You probably already know Ron’s work and use it every day. He invented magnetic credit card strip and other things effecting millions if not billions of people in the world. Today Ron continues to work on new innovations for the blind and consults budding entrepreneurs. Click here for...

Today I'm talking with TruEffect CEO Finnegan Faldi. With over 20 years of senior management experience in startups and public technology, Finnegan headed up the global broadband division at Yahoo and served as the Chief Operating Officer at Datalogix. He currently works with performance platform TruEffect focusing on first party cookie technology. Click here for show notes and transcript. Leave s...

Join me as I talk with David Brown from Techstars. David is a serial entrepreneur and helped found Techstars along with David Cohen, Brad Feld and Jared Polis in 2006. The Co-founders wanted to leverage what they had learned in their previous startups to help entrepreneurs avoid those same mistakes. Techstars' startup accelerator offers a three-month bootcamp and surrounds entrepreneurs with mento...

Join me as I talk with InsideSales’ Chief Marketing Officer Mick Hollison. Mick previously served as the Director of Sales at IBM, the Director of Enterprise Marketing at Microsoft and the VP of Marketing at Citrx—now worth over $2.6 billion. Today he uses his knowledge in sales to dominate the inside sales market. Click here for show notes and transcript. Leave some feedback: Who should I intervi...

Today we're talking with Jesse Farmer from CodeUnion. Jesse's story starts like many startup founders who made their way to San Francisco to take on the world. While his first venture didn't really go anywhere, Jesse went onto build Everlane to 25,000 subscribers during its pre-launch. He was also a Co-founder of Dev Bootcamp before launching a remote learning model for aspiring coders called Code...

Join me as I talk with Yoni Assia from social investment network eToro. With a background in investing and developing, Yoni started his first successful company with his Army buddies and sold it to Kodak at the age of 26. Today eToro has over $30 million in revenue and is inventing a new marketplace combining financial tech, gaming and social media. Click here for show notes and transcript. Leave...

Join me while I talk with LiveDial founder Yali Elkin. With a background in corporate finance, Yali had an idea after watching the 2012 Presidential debates and ran with it to create LiveDial, an app empowering users to convey their thoughts and opinions with a survey creation platform used by media, friends, leaders, and businesses. To date, LiveDial has over 7,000 downloads and growing. Click he...

Today we're talking with the General Manager of Flippa, Nick Kenn. Nick is a marketer by trade working with agencies and businesses like Learnable, Betfair and Flippa's parent company, SitePoint. Before serving as the General Manager for Flippa, Nick was in the gaming space for 7 years before looking for a smaller company he could take a bigger ownership role in. To date, Flippa's has over 500,000...

Today we’re talking with BCD Video Founder Jeff Burgess. Working in the IT business since 1979, Jeff opened his own company in 1999. A chance meeting steered the course of his business into IP video in 2008. After a few tough years, the business thrived and today earns $30 million in revenue with a projected $50 million by 2015. Click here for show notes and transcript. Leave some feedback: Who sh...

Join us as we talk with Sidecar Co-founder and CEO, Sunil Paul.  A serial entrepreneur, Sunil is the Founding Partner of the cleantech venture fund Spring Ventures, an angel Investor in LinkedIn and Co-founder of Brightmail. He helped found Sidecar with an intention to change the world and make owning a car obsolete. Click here for show notes and transcript. Leave some feedback: What should I talk...

Join me while I chat with Publicize Founder Conrad Egusa. A serial entrepreneur, Conrad also co-founded Espacio, a co-working space in Medellin, Colombia. He also served as a mentor at The Founder Institute, owns the English speaking news outlet Colombia Reports, and is a former Venture Beat writer. His newest start-up Publicize is looking to disrupt the PR industry. Click here for show notes and...

Hey everyone, in today’s episode I share the mic with Olof Mathé, CEO and co-founder of Mixmax – which is one of my favorite tools. Listen as Olof discusses what it takes to build a successful remote team at a quickly growing startup, how they acquired their first 5,000 customers through word-of-mouth, and the art of product prioritization. Click here for show notes and transcript. Leave Some Feed...

Hey everyone, in today’s episode, I share the mic with Nir Eyal, entrepreneur, educator and author of the best-selling book Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products. Listen as Nir discusses the power of manipulation (and the two types of manipulation), the four essential elements that create a hook to forming a habit, why it's not the best product that wins but rather the product that comes fir...

Hey everyone, in today’s episode, I share the mic with Chris Coyier, the founder of CSS-Tricks, CodePen and Shop Talk Show. Listen as Chris shares the numbers (revenue, page views and listeners) for all his businesses, the most important thing he’s learned when it comes to building a community, why sponsored posts are the best revenue generators for him, and the difference between failing and givi...

Meet Brenton Hayden, one of the nation's largest landlords who "retired" at 28. Founder and Chairman of Renters Warehouse, Brenton saw a need for a more sophisticated professional landlord service that helps everyday homeowners and real estate investors manage their properties. To date, it's the second largest professional landlord service in the country. Brenton is also an angel investor in softw...

Today we’re talking with Blossom Co-founder and CEO Thomas Schranz. With an unfinished computer science degree under his belt, Thomas started building web applications and high-traffic Facebook apps for the European market. Thomas saw a need for a better software project management platform and launched Blossom, attracting clients like Twitter and Doodle in the span of about 3 years. To date, Blos...