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  • #2026 Inside Nomad’s product development
    About eight years ago, today’s guests realized that if you’re walking around with a phone and you don’t have a way to charge it you just feel vulnerable.
    So he started a company that builds smartphone accessories for the modern nomad.

    Noah Dentzel is the co-founder of Nomad, iPhone cases & accessories made from the finest materials.

    Sponsored by

    Gusto – Gusto’s people platform helps businesses like yours onboard, pay, insure, and support your hardworking team. Payroll, benefits, and more. Their customizable onboarding checklists were built to keep you organized. Gusto offers employee benefits made to fit your budget. If you’re not sure where to start, Gusto’s licensed advisors can help you choose the right health benefits for your team.

    HostGator – Ready to take your website to the next level? Whether you’re a first-time blogger or an experienced web pro, HostGator has all the tools you need to create a great-looking website or online store. A wide range of options includes cloud-based web hosting, reseller hosting, VPS hosting and dedicated servers. Founded in 2002, HostGator is the perfect web partner for business owners and individuals seeking hands-on support. Visit www.hostgator.com/mixergy to see what HostGator can do for your website.

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  • #2025 Music streaming for b2b
    Joining me today is an entrepreneur who was crucial in creating the Beats Music brand that was eventually sold to Apple. He then partnered up with Spotify to create a way to bring music streaming to businesses.
    He has recently moved away from Spotify and I’m fascinated by how he’s did it. I want to find out how he got a deal going with Spotify to spin out this very complicated product.
    Ola Sars is coming to us directly from Stockholm. He is the founder of Soundtrack Your Brand, a music streaming solution for businesses.

    Ola Sars is the founder of Soundtrack Your Brand, which allows businesses to find the perfect music in the world’s largest commercial catalog.

    Sponsored by

    Gusto – Gusto’s people platform helps businesses like yours onboard, pay, insure, and support your hardworking team. Payroll, benefits, and more. Their customizable onboarding checklists were built to keep you organized. Gusto offers employee benefits made to fit your budget. If you’re not sure where to start, Gusto’s licensed advisors can help you choose the right health benefits for your team.

    Toptal – Toptal is a global network of top talent in business, design, and technology that enables companies to scale their teams, on demand. Toptal serves thousands of clients, including Fortune 500 companies and innovative startups, delivering expertise and world-class solutions at an unparalleled success rate. With elite freelancers in over 100 countries, Toptal connects the world’s top talent with leading companies in days, not weeks. Plus, every new engagement begins with a no-risk trial period, so clients only pay if satisfied with the work. Get started hiring with Toptal today.

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  • #2024 Selling from the stage
    Joining me as a Mixergy listener whose numbers don’t exactly hit our minimum for revenue but when we heard his story we knew we had to bring it to the audience.
    Adrian Tobey is the creator of Groundhogg, a CRM and marketing automation WordPress plugin.
    We believe that Adrian Toby is going places in the way world. I consider us lucky to have him on here as a guest to talk about what he’s building.

    Adrian Tobey is the founder of Groundhogg, marketing automation for WordPress.

    Sponsored by

    Toptal – Toptal is a global network of top talent in business, design, and technology that enables companies to scale their teams, on demand. Toptal serves thousands of clients, including Fortune 500 companies and innovative startups, delivering expertise and world-class solutions at an unparalleled success rate. With elite freelancers in over 100 countries, Toptal connects the world’s top talent with leading companies in days, not weeks. Plus, every new engagement begins with a no-risk trial period, so clients only pay if satisfied with the work. Get started hiring with Toptal today.

    HostGator – Ready to take your website to the next level? Whether you’re a first-time blogger or an experienced web pro, HostGator has all the tools you need to create a great-looking website or online store. A wide range of options includes cloud-based web hosting, reseller hosting, VPS hosting and dedicated servers. Founded in 2002, HostGator is the perfect web partner for business owners and individuals seeking hands-on support. Visit www.hostgator.com/mixergy to see what HostGator can do for your website.

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  • #2023 Is your business model broken?
    Joining me is an entrepreneur who is dealing with a realization that I think a lot of us need to come to.
    I wish I had this conversation myself years ago. In this interview we’ll talk about what today’s guest learned the hard way about what business models work.
    Adam Arkfeld is the founder of ParaCore, a pay-per-click lead generation agency.

    Adam Arkfeld is the founder of ParaCore, a pay-per-click lead generation agency, and Prevail Legal Marketing, performance-based lead generation agency for high-growth law firms.

    Sponsored by

    Gusto – Gusto’s people platform helps businesses like yours onboard, pay, insure, and support your hardworking team. Payroll, benefits, and more. Their customizable onboarding checklists were built to keep you organized. Gusto offers employee benefits made to fit your budget. If you’re not sure where to start, Gusto’s licensed advisors can help you choose the right health benefits for your team.

    HostGator – Ready to take your website to the next level? Whether you’re a first-time blogger or an experienced web pro, HostGator has all the tools you need to create a great-looking website or online store. A wide range of options includes cloud-based web hosting, reseller hosting, VPS hosting and dedicated servers. Founded in 2002, HostGator is the perfect web partner for business owners and individuals seeking hands-on support. Visit www.hostgator.com/mixergy to see what HostGator can do for your website.

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  • #2022 Killing repetitive tasks in PR
    Today I have a founder who just sold her company to SEMRush.
    She was running her own PR agency and was looking for a solution to make her team more efficient. When she couldn’t find what she was looking for, she created it.
    Joanna Drabent is the founder of Prowly, PR and Media Relations Software.
     

    Joanna Drabent is the founder of Prowly, PR and Media Relations Software.

    Sponsored by

    Gusto – Gusto’s people platform helps businesses like yours onboard, pay, insure, and support your hardworking team. Payroll, benefits, and more. Their customizable onboarding checklists were built to keep you organized. Gusto offers employee benefits made to fit your budget. If you’re not sure where to start, Gusto’s licensed advisors can help you choose the right health benefits for your team.

    Toptal – Toptal is a global network of top talent in business, design, and technology that enables companies to scale their teams, on demand. Toptal serves thousands of clients, including Fortune 500 companies and innovative startups, delivering expertise and world-class solutions at an unparalleled success rate. With elite freelancers in over 100 countries, Toptal connects the world’s top talent with leading companies in days, not weeks. Plus, every new engagement begins with a no-risk trial period, so clients only pay if satisfied with the work. Get started hiring with Toptal today.

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  • #2021 Otter outpaces Google in voice-to-text
    I’m so excited about the software today’s guest created. It’s so powerful and it costs pennies on the dollar compared to the competition. I invited the founder here to talk about how he built it.
    Sam Liang is the founder of Otter.ai, which generates rich notes for meetings, interviews, lectures, and other important voice conversations.

    Sam Liang is the founder of Otter.ai, which generates rich notes for meetings, interviews, lectures, and other important voice conversations.

    Sponsored by

    Gusto – Gusto’s people platform helps businesses like yours onboard, pay, insure, and support your hardworking team. Payroll, benefits, and more. Their customizable onboarding checklists were built to keep you organized. Gusto offers employee benefits made to fit your budget. If you’re not sure where to start, Gusto’s licensed advisors can help you choose the right health benefits for your team.

    HostGator – Ready to take your website to the next level? Whether you’re a first-time blogger or an experienced web pro, HostGator has all the tools you need to create a great-looking website or online store. A wide range of options includes cloud-based web hosting, reseller hosting, VPS hosting and dedicated servers. Founded in 2002, HostGator is the perfect web partner for business owners and individuals seeking hands-on support. Visit www.hostgator.com/mixergy to see what HostGator can do for your website.

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  • #2020 $15M ARR internet marketing agency
    Joining me is Matt Bowman, a guy who runs a results-focused internet marketing agency. The thing that I find about people who run agencies is it’s an easy way to get started, but it also has basically unlimited growth potential.
    I want to find out how today’s guest went from building websites for non-profits who had no money to pay him to running a $15M ARR agency at Thrive.

    Matt Bowman is the founder of Thrive Agency, a full-service digital marketing agency.

    Sponsored by

    Gusto – Gusto’s people platform helps businesses like yours onboard, pay, insure, and support your hardworking team. Payroll, benefits, and more. Their customizable onboarding checklists were built to keep you organized. Gusto offers employee benefits made to fit your budget. If you’re not sure where to start, Gusto’s licensed advisors can help you choose the right health benefits for your team.

    HostGator – Ready to take your website to the next level? Whether you’re a first-time blogger or an experienced web pro, HostGator has all the tools you need to create a great-looking website or online store. A wide range of options includes cloud-based web hosting, reseller hosting, VPS hosting and dedicated servers. Founded in 2002, HostGator is the perfect web partner for business owners and individuals seeking hands-on support. Visit www.hostgator.com/mixergy to see what HostGator can do for your website.

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  • #2019 My process for deeper conversations
    If you’ve been listening to my podcast for a while, has it ever felt a little uncomfortable to hear me get so open with people? I didn’t realize that even my friend Wil Schroter noticed it.
    Recently, he invited me to go onto his podcast, Startup Therapy to talk about how I get so open.
    He’s known me now for years and I guess he’s been curious if you’ve been curious about it too, you’ll hear him ask the kinds of questions you might’ve been wondering and hear my process.

    Wil Schroter is the founder of Startups.com, a startup launch platform.

    Sponsored by

    Toptal – Toptal is a global network of top talent in business, design, and technology that enables companies to scale their teams, on demand. Toptal serves thousands of clients, including Fortune 500 companies and innovative startups, delivering expertise and world-class solutions at an unparalleled success rate. With elite freelancers in over 100 countries, Toptal connects the world’s top talent with leading companies in days, not weeks. Plus, every new engagement begins with a no-risk trial period, so clients only pay if satisfied with the work. Get started hiring with Toptal today.

    HostGator – Ready to take your website to the next level? Whether you’re a first-time blogger or an experienced web pro, HostGator has all the tools you need to create a great-looking website or online store. A wide range of options includes cloud-based web hosting, reseller hosting, VPS hosting and dedicated servers. Founded in 2002, HostGator is the perfect web partner for business owners and individuals seeking hands-on support. Visit www.hostgator.com/mixergy to see what HostGator can do for your website.

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  • #2018 Virtual events as a business
    Today’s guest is someone whose background I really admire.
    Allie Magyar was working at Old Navy when she got into street racing. She took it really far–even organizing her own car shows and a crew.
    Today she’s the founder of Hubb, a virtual events platform. I want to find out how she did it.

    Allie Magyar is the founder of Hubb.me, a virtual event platform.

    Sponsored by

    Toptal – Toptal is a global network of top talent in business, design, and technology that enables companies to scale their teams, on demand. Toptal serves thousands of clients, including Fortune 500 companies and innovative startups, delivering expertise and world-class solutions at an unparalleled success rate. With elite freelancers in over 100 countries, Toptal connects the world’s top talent with leading companies in days, not weeks. Plus, every new engagement begins with a no-risk trial period, so clients only pay if satisfied with the work. Get started hiring with Toptal today.

    HostGator – Ready to take your website to the next level? Whether you’re a first-time blogger or an experienced web pro, HostGator has all the tools you need to create a great-looking website or online store. A wide range of options includes cloud-based web hosting, reseller hosting, VPS hosting and dedicated servers. Founded in 2002, HostGator is the perfect web partner for business owners and individuals seeking hands-on support. Visit www.hostgator.com/mixergy to see what HostGator can do for your website.

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  • #2017 Starting small on a BIG vision
    Today’s guest is someone who has this big vision of changing the world. But he realized something. If you want to change the world, if you want to really have big impact, you have to start small.
    Ashray Malhotra is the founder of Rephrase.ai, which uses Generative AI to address millions of customers personally, through videos.
    We’ll find out about his big vision in this interview.
     

    Ashray Malhotra is the founder of Rephrase.ai, which uses Generative AI to address millions of customers personally, through videos.

    Sponsored by

    Toptal – Toptal is a global network of top talent in business, design, and technology that enables companies to scale their teams, on demand. Toptal serves thousands of clients, including Fortune 500 companies and innovative startups, delivering expertise and world-class solutions at an unparalleled success rate. With elite freelancers in over 100 countries, Toptal connects the world’s top talent with leading companies in days, not weeks. Plus, every new engagement begins with a no-risk trial period, so clients only pay if satisfied with the work. Get started hiring with Toptal today.

    HostGator – Ready to take your website to the next level? Whether you’re a first-time blogger or an experienced web pro, HostGator has all the tools you need to create a great-looking website or online store. A wide range of options includes cloud-based web hosting, reseller hosting, VPS hosting and dedicated servers. Founded in 2002, HostGator is the perfect web partner for business owners and individuals seeking hands-on support. Visit www.hostgator.com/mixergy to see what HostGator can do for your website.

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