Today's interview is with Sebastian Klien, co-founder of Blinkist, an app-based company that provides powerful, actionable, 15-minute reviews of over 1,000 books per year - letting their users learn more, be more and do more, without spending hours upon hours reading all those books for themselves. Sebastian's got some really interesting insights on being focused on monetization from the start, and what it's been like to adopt parts of the Holacracy management system within Blinkist.

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Hi everyone! Today's interview is with Meagen Eisenberg, CMO at MongoDB, an open source, document-oriented database that lets you create applications never before possible. She’s also the former VP of demand generation at DocuSign, a tech startup advisor, and an executive mom of three.

Today we'll be talking about what exactly MongoDB does (and how most of the apps on your phone are built on MongoDB), the different channels they use to acquire new customers, and how to create a simple persona.

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Hey everyone! Today's interview is with Ezra Firestone, founder and creative director of Smart Marketer, an information hub for do-it-yourself entrepreneurs, as well as a partner in Boom by Cindy Joseph and the company’s head of digital marketing.

Today we're talking about paid advertising (like his $41K in Pinterest sales experience!), why you have to go beyond query-based targeting to do any kind of scale, and why he puts 98% of his advertising budget into content amplification.

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Hi everyone! Today's interview is with David Darmanin, CEO of Hotjar, a powerful tool that allows you to see how visitors are really using your website, collect user feedback, and turn more visitors into customers.

Today we're talking about this great all-in-one analytics tool and how they've grown rapidly via both paid and unpaid advertising, how they've increased retention over time by building new features, and why finding the right people for your team early on is so important.

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Hi everyone, today's interview is with David White, CEO of import.io, a web data platform and free web scraping tool that lets you transform any website into a table of data or an API in minutes without even writing any code. I’ve used this tool a few times for my projects and it’s been super helpful!

Today we're talking about the importance of indexible data as the cornerstone to decision-making in businesses, his view of the semantic web, and how they used startup competitions as a (genius!) customer acquisition plan.

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Hey everyone! Today’s interview is with Sean Kelly, co-founder of Snack Nation (parent company is Human Healthy Vending – Helping Unite Mankind and Nutrition), an easy, hassle-free way to get delicious, healthy snacks delivered right to your office. I used to intern for Sean, so it's great to be able to chat with him again!

In this interview, Sean and I talk about B2B versus B2C business models, how content marketing has enabled them to grow at high double digits, month over month, why educating their customers with awesome 10x content gives them about 1/3 of their leads in return, and how showing vulnerability makes you a stronger leader.

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Hey everyone, today’s interview is with Scott Burns, CEO of GovDelivery, a digital communications platform exclusively for governments, serving over 1,000 public sector organizations around the world.

Today we’re talking about the need for government agencies to connect with the public and how GovDelivery manages to do that, the difference between marketing to public companies versus government agencies, and their unique approach to user acquisition.

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Today’s interview is with Rob Walling, founder of Drip, an extremely user-friendly email marketing automation tool that allows you to craft every interaction with your leads, Troux users, and customers. I personally just became a customer about a week ago and I’ve been very happy with both the team and the product itself.

In this interview, Rob and I talk about how the idea for Drip manifested as a result of the problems he was having with the email marketing tool he was using at the time, why a simple change in the software features was the key to finally growing the business, and how acquiring just one marketing skill at a time is the path to success.

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Hi everyone, today's interview is with Brad Martineau, Cofounder of SixthDivision, a company that helps businesses plan out and thrive on marketing automation via Infusionsoft. Today we're talking about the dire importance in planning before implementing any automation, and how SixthDivision has grown helping companies do just that.

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Hey everyone, today's conversation is with Tarun Nimmagadda, co-founder and CEO of Mutual Mobile, which is an emerging tech company that builds breakthrough products for a more connected world.

Today we'll talk about their unique approach to business and building products that allows them to maximize their profits while working for a minimal amount of clients at any given time.

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