Startup Stories - Mixergy

By Andrew Warner

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June 01, 2016 #1311 How Doist competes in a world full of to-do apps – with Amir Salihefendic
Here’s what’s amazing about today’s guest: he created a to-do app in a world that was just full of to-do apps, project management software, and people who didn’t need any of it, people who just wanted to use a post-it note.
Really, in a world full of competitors, in walks this guy with the guts and the nerve to say, “I’ve got something else, something better, something different. You should sign up.” And a few months later, he says, “You should also pay me if you want it to be really good. And it didn’t die. It didn’t fail. The company just kept growing and growing and growing.
Amir Salihefendic is the founder of Doist, which makes Todoist, a tool that can help you get things done individually or as a team.
Amir Salihefendic is the founder of Doist, which makes Todoist, a tool that can help you get things done individually or as a team.
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May 27, 2016 #1310 How a former prisoner launched Pigeonly, a startup for inmates
A few months ago I was in Las Vegas and I met this guy, Steven, who’s been listening to Mixergy for a long time. He walks up to me and says, “Andrew, you should interview the founder of my company.” I said, “What’s the company?” He said, “Pigeonly.” I go, “I know Pigeonly.” I know them because I heard this great piece on NPR about them and then I started reading all over how they got funding from Y Combinator. The story is incredibly exciting and captivating.
This entrepreneur went to prison, learned business in prison, came up with an idea based on his experience and frustrations from prison, launched the business, grew it, got revenue, got funding–unbelievable success story.
I’m so excited to have him on. His name is Frederick Hutson. He is the cofounder of Pigeonly. It’s a startup focused on serving the US prison population. They do things like allow prisoners to get photos from their loved ones or make phone calls to their loved ones.
Frederick Hutson is the cofounder of Pigeonly, a startup that allows prisoners to get photos from their loved ones or make phone calls to their loved ones.
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May 25, 2016 #1309 How Dollar Beard Club is hitting $8M in its first 8 months – with Chris Stoikos
I was so skeptical of today’s guest’s revenue that I asked him to show me his Stripe data.
He did and as you’ll see in this interview, I was SHOCKED when I saw the numbers.
Chris Stoikos says he was the kind of guy who always had trouble focusing on one thing. At the time he started Dollar Beard Club he was living in a house with six other dudes who were all working on different businesses.
He says that guy is very different than the guy he is today. I want to find out how he got there. Chris Stoikos is the founder of the Dollar Beard Club, which sells grooming supplies to guys with beards.
Chris Stoikos is the founder of the Dollar Beard Club, which sells grooming supplies to guys with beards.
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May 23, 2016 #1308 Workflow and sales techniques from the co-creator of ACT! – with Pat Sullivan
I’ve got an entrepreneur who has been focused on CRM for decades.
What used to just be address books has became much more powerful. CRM allows you to keep track of who you are interacting with to build better relationships and to close more sales.
Today’s guest got into the space because he was a sales person who learned that collecting information about his customers and prospects helped him close more sales and do better business.
Pat Sullivan co-created ACT!, which is the software that I used when I was still in school and working for Dale Carnegie. One of the first things they did was hand me ACT! and they said, “Here, use this. Whenever we talk to a client, make notes about what we learned about that client in here so that you have it for yourself so other people on the team have it for themselves too.”
He’s since created two other companies, Saleslogix and Ryver, a team collaboration software that makes it really easy for teams to communicate with each other.
Pat Sullivan is the CEO and co-creator of ACT! which was sold to Symantec. He since created two other companies, Saleslogix and Ryver, a team collaboration software that makes it really easy for teams to communicate with each other.
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May 20, 2016 #1307 How to launch a two-sided marketplace from day one – with Jerry Nettuno
Get this, you know how hard it is to create a marketplace? Well, today’s guest found a way to make it easier for himself.
Take a marketplace for hairstylists, for example. You’d have to get a whole lot of hairstylists in there or else you wouldn’t get the customers. But why would you get hairstylists if you have no customers? Or maybe you get customers first but you have no hairstylists, so it makes no sense for the customers to be there because they’re going to be upset that they can’t book an appointment because they don’t have anyone local.
Well, today’s guest found a way to deal with that chicken and egg problem that all marketplaces have and he built a growing business.
Jerry Nettuno is the founder of Schedulicity, an appointment scheduling software for small and medium-sized businesses.
Jerry Nettuno is the founder of Schedulicity, an appointment scheduling software for small and medium-sized businesses.
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May 18, 2016 #1306 How Russell Brunson solved the biggest challenge of online sales
Today’s guest was selling things online and was really good at it, but he had this problem…
It took a long time to make funnels. Frankly, that’s a problem that I have too.
Every part of creating a sales experience is challenging. So, he said, “I’m going to build a solution, something that makes it easier.” And he did.
It worked for him and it worked for so many other customers that it’s become this really big business that you’ve probably heard of–even if you’re selling online.
We’re going to get to hear how the company was built and about some of the challenges along the way. Russell Brunson is the founder of ClickFunnels, an easy way to market, sell or deliver products online.
Russell Brunson is the founder of ClickFunnels, which provides an easy way to market, sell or deliver products online.
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May 16, 2016 #1305 Working 80hrs/wk? No time to launch a company? Watch this interview – with Robbie Allen
Joining me today is a guy who I’m really proud to introduce to my audience. He’s a hard worker–and when I say hard worker, wait until you hear what this guy did.
When you go to AP, and so many other sources, it feels like a human being wrote an article that’s interesting and explains a topic really well. But it’s actually system built by today’s guest. It’s his software that actually wrote the article based on the stats.
Robbie Allen is the founder of Automated Insights, a natural language generation platform that takes data and turns it into stories that sound like a human being wrote it.
He launched it while working a full-time job. He sold it back in February 2015 and I’m excited to have him here to talk about how he did it.

Robbie Allen is the founder of Automated Insights, a platform that allows you to generate thousands of personalized articles in the time it takes to write just one.
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May 13, 2016 #1304 How a founder’s mindset got Quest Nutrition to $400,000,000 – with Tom Bilyeu
Every ten days or so, I get a box of Quest Protein bars delivered to the office. For a long time, I just assumed the company behind it was some big manufacturing company, but I recently discovered it’s not that at all.
It’s actually three entrepreneurs who started the company in 2010, who grew it enormously fast, who are killing it with revenues, with exposure, and with customer fandom.
Today I’ve got Tom Bilyeu. He’s one of the founders of Quest Nutrition, a company and I’ve really gotten to admire the more I’ve read about them and prepared for this interview.
Tom Bilyeu is the founder of Quest Nutrition, the maker of the #1 protein bar, Quest Protein Chips, and Quest Protein Powder.
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May 11, 2016 #1303 Techniques for rapid growth – with George Revutsky
The person who you’re about to meet is someone who I got to know at a dinner recently. A past Mixergy interviewee put a dinner together of people who were doing growth for companies. And as I talked to today’s guest, I realized he’s really interesting. He’s got this process for doing growth.
He runs a company that does growth for his clients. He keeps dropping out of this company. It just keeps running on its own. He drops out and he does growth for other businesses.
So I brought him on here to talk about how he did it. George Revutsky is the founder of ROIworks, a consulting company that offers growth in a box to startups and fast-growing companies.
George Revutsky is the founder of ROIworks, a consulting company that offers growth in a box to startups and fast-growing companies.
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May 09, 2016 #1302 “How to Become the Leader Your Team is Waiting For” – with Jonathan Raymond
I get really excited about systems. In fact, we’ve done a series of interviews around systems because frankly I needed it. I needed to organize my company. I just wanted a process. When I was thinking about how to do it, I remembered back to my entrepreneurship class where Professor Craig Boyce handed every one of us a copy of “EMyth,” the book.
He said, “If you want to, read this book and it will show you how to organize your business.” I read it cover to cover. One thing that really stood out was if a blue suit works for you and that’s the way you communicate authority and people respect you with a blue suit, wear a blue suit every day. Obviously it wasn’t about how to get dressed, but that gives you a sense of how system-oriented that book left me thinking.
Well, I found that there’s a limit to systems. At some point you end up with what feels like a very bureaucratic company. Other times, it stifles creativity or challenges it. So, over the last few weeks, I’ve been talking to an entrepreneur who actually used to run EMyth, the company. He used to be the CEO. Now he’s got a new company.
His name is Jonathan Raymond. He is the founder of Refound, which teaches people how to become great people managers. He has this new way of changing the relationship that we have as entrepreneurs and business people with systems.
Jonathan Raymond is the founder of Refound, which teaches people how to become great people managers.
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