Startup Stories - Mixergy

By Andrew Warner

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June 22, 2016 #1320 How Mitchell Harper built a $100,000,000 company, failed, and got back up
I hope that decades from now people go back to these interviews to learn from this crop of entrepreneurs. And one I’ll be most proud is my interview with Mitchell Harper of BigCommerce.
He’s a guy who started out bootstrapping, who built an incredible company, and who came on to talk about it back in 2010. It was such a great interview and it holds up even after all this time.
Mitchell Harper is the founder of BigCommerce, an e-commerce platform whose revenue is approaching $100,000,000.
I want to find out why he left that company and about his new product, Startup Growth Blueprint, a course that teaches everything he’s learned from growing companies including where to get an idea, how to validate it, how to launch, hire people—everything.
Mitchell Harper is the founder of BigCommerce, an all-in-one e-commerce platform with the power to grow your business.
His new product is Startup Growth Blueprint, a course that teaches everything he’s learned from growing companies including where to get an idea, how to validate it, how to launch, and hire people.
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June 20, 2016 #1319 DesignCrowd founder doesn’t do interviews (except for this one) – with Alec Lynch
A few months ago we had a sponsor named DesignCrowd that I talked about a couple of times in interviews. But in private, my team and I were saying, “Those guys are making bank.” But we couldn’t really figure out how big they were.
The more we looked into it, the more impressed we were by how big this little thing had gotten that today’s guest started in his mom’s house.
He doesn’t do any interviews. Which means we get to discover him here on Mixergy and that’s what we’re going to do. We’re going to hear the story of how this guy with an idea created a marketplace for design and we’ll find out just how big it is.
Alec Lynch is the founder of DesignCrowd, a marketplace that helps entrepreneurs and small businesses outsource graphic, logo and web design.
Alec Lynch is the founder of DesignCrowd, a marketplace that helps entrepreneurs and small businesses outsource graphic, logo and web design.
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June 17, 2016 #1318 How Robin Smith turned an offline headache into the online platform WeGoLook
I’ve got someone whose story who you’ve probably never seen on major media, but you should because it’s exciting and inspiring.
Today’s guest grew up on a farm. To me, having grown up in New York, it feels like the middle of nowhere, and she had a bunch of setbacks which you’ll find out about. And then she ended up with this idea that you and I probably never would have hit on. I didn’t even know this was a business. But it is and it’s growing and she’s here to talk about how she built it up.
Robin Smith is the founder of WeGoLook.com. It’s an online platform which dispatches a real person to perform tasks like dynamic data capture and personalized report templates.
Imagine you wanted to buy a car that you saw online but happened to be 400 miles away. Everything looked good online, but you wanted to be sure it was the right car. You don’t want to drive 400 miles and maybe looking at the wrong car and wasting your time.
So you go to WeGoLook.com and they send somebody out and that person inspects the car for you, maybe even does a better job than you would do for yourself inspecting the car and sends you back a report and photos, videos, the whole thing. That is what Robin’s company does and it does it on a big scale. It started one on one, and then it went on to enterprise and I want to find out how she did it.
Robin Smith is the founder of WeGoLook.com, an online platform which dispatches a real person to perform tasks like dynamic data capture and personalized report templates.
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June 16, 2016 Something different.
One of the people I work with, Sachit Gupta, joined me to tell you about something we have to offer everyone who’s listening to the podcast.
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June 15, 2016 #1317 How and idea sketched on a napkin turned into $1M in just 9 months – with Sangram Vajre
I hope this isn’t awkward, but to be honest with everyone, I wasn’t sure I wanted to do this interview. I wasn’t sure the idea was big enough—it seemed too simplistic. But then I had a conversation with today’s guest and I got fired up.
Here’s the deal. This guy had an idea that started as a post. He didn’t create the software, he didn’t go out and get customers. What he did instead was create a conference, he got people to come, and that’s how he got some of his first customers.
Today he’s becoming the leader in this whole new category of software that I’d never heard of before this interview.
Sangram Vajre is the cofounder of Terminus, the leading b2b account-based automation software.
Sangram Vajre is the cofounder of Terminus, the leading b2b account-based automation software.
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June 13, 2016 #1316 How Jeff Booth went from builder to tech builder with BuildDirect
Often what we see are entrepreneurs who find this deep pain that a customer has, sometimes their own, and they find a solution for the problem that causes the pain.
That’s what we’ve got here today, an entrepreneur who did just that.
His name is Jeff Booth. He’s the Co-Founder of BuildDirect, a platform that simplifies finding and delivering products to consumers. Some of the things you can find on there are tile, decking, flooring, building materials, the heavy hard stuff that you definitely would be able to carry out of a store. They find a way to get it to your home and they’ve built an incredible business doing it.
Jeff Booth is the Co-Founder of BuildDirect, a platform that simplifies finding and delivering products to consumers.
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June 10, 2016 #1315 Sales tactics from a cold-calling machine – with Raj Bhaskar
Today I’ve got an interview for you with someone who feels like a cold calling machine. I don’t know that I’ve ever interviewed someone who embraces the idea of cold calling, who loves it so much.
Frankly, I feel that if you can cold call, you have a super power because you can sell from anywhere, you can build a business from anything, you can learn from your customers what to create.
Specifically what I like is that before he built the first big version of his software, he started making phone calls, many more than you, the person who’s listening to me, is probably going to have the guts, time, or energy to make. He did it. He learned from those customers. He built a great product. He built an incredible company and then ten years after he launched it, he sold the business.
Today I invited him here to talk about how he did it and what he’s working on now.
Raj Bhaskar was the founder of VisualHOMES, a software company focused on property management and real estate solutions for public and affordable housing.
Raj Bhaskar is the Founder of Hurdlr. Previously, Raj was the CEO of VisualHOMES, a software company focused on property management and real estate solutions for public and affordable housing.
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June 08, 2016 #1314 How Caren Merrick started WebMethods in her basement and sold it for $546 million
A few weeks ago, I got an email back from one of our fans who said, “I heard this interview you did and I thought maybe I should volunteer to do an interview.” As I read her backstory, I couldn’t believe how much she’d done and I said to the team, “Find a way. Let’s get her on.” Here she is today.
Caren Merrick is her name. She cofounded webMethods. It’s a pioneer in the business to business ecommerce innovation space. We’ll talk about what that means. She helped take the company public in 2000. It eventually sold to Software AG in 2007 for $546 million.
She is a serial entrepreneur who’s still going. Her latest startup is called Pocket Mentor. It’s a mobile app for leaders like you, the person who’s listening to me who want to grow their teams and their businesses.
Caren Merrick is the cofounder of webMethods, a pioneer in the business to business e-commerce innovation space.
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Toptal – If you’re having trouble finding developers, Toptal is a network of elite pre-vetted software developers. You tell Toptal what you’re looking for, they search their network for the best people, they test the candidates, and then they present you with only the candidates who meet your individual needs. Once you pick someone you can start work with them the next day. They offer a no-risk trial period. Go to Toptal.com. Get the best of the best right now.
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June 06, 2016 #1313 Exclusive: LessAccounting, the Startup That Challenged QuickBooks, Just Sold – with Allan Branch and Steven Bristol
Six years ago I interviewed the founder of LessAccounting, which challenged the giant QuickBooks by doing less. It had fewer features, a cleaner designer and less clutter.
In an exclusive Mixergy interview, the founders of LessAccounting, Allan Branch & Steven Bristol, are announcing that they sold it.
Allan Branch & Steven Bristol are the founders of LessAccounting, small business accounting software with a cleaner designer and less clutter.
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June 03, 2016 #1312 Timo Rein on growing Pipedrive from 1,000 customers to over 30,000
There’s a piece of software that I use that’s built by the entrepreneur you’re about to meet today. It’s called Pipedrive. You’ve heard me talk about it forever because it changed our whole business. We used to struggle keeping track of all the potential interviewees that we have here on Mixergy and convincing somebody to say yes to an interview.
I got really excited about Pipedrive about three years ago and I said, “There’s got to be an entrepreneur behind this business. I have to have him on here to do an interview.” And I did. If you go back to that interview from 2013, you’ll see that I talked to Timo Rein, the founder of Pipedrive, about where he came up with this idea, how he got his first customers, how he grew it up, how he struggled to get funding, how his cofounder got into a little bit of health issues, how he was rejected by Y Combinator when he tried to get funding from them, how he really struggled and how he celebrated when he hit 1,000 customers.
But that’s not where the story ends for businesses. Ideally, you go beyond it. Timo has. He’s grown his business dramatically.
I want to know how do you take a business that’s doing well and get it to scale up even bigger? What happens? What goes into it? So, I invited Timo to come back here and do a second interview and we’re going to find out what happens after you find product market fit, after you get your first thousand customers, how you grow from there.
Timo Rein is the founder of Pipedrive, sales pipeline software that gets you organized.
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