The 5-Minute Founder

Heather Christothoulou is the Co-Founder & Chief Creator at Inspo Network, which connects content creators with on-demand premium video production.

In the interview, Heather tells us how she acquired her first customers and also the challenges of running a business while still maintaining her brand as a creator.

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Partners

ZipRecruiter – ZipRecruiter is rated #1 for hiring by employers in the US based on more than 5,000 reviews on Trustpilot. Try ZipRecruiter for free today at ZipRecruiter.com/Founder.

Wishpond – Wishpond offers a suite of tools to help businesses generate new leads. With Wishpond you can create beautiful landing pages, coupons, and social media contests, all of which can be customized using tailored forms to capture your leads’ name, email, phone number, and more. Wishpond also offers email and text message marketing tools so you can send out segmented communications to your customers. Click here to sign up for a free 14-day no-risk trial of Wishpond.

Nevin Shetty is the CEO & Co-Founder of Blueprint Registry, a universal gift registry that gives you the power to add gifts from any retailer, import existing registries, create a cash registry, and more.

In the interview, Nevin emphasizes the importance of understanding if your company is a lifestyle business or a venture-backed business, how they acquired their first customers, and more.

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Partners

ZipRecruiter – ZipRecruiter is rated #1 for hiring by employers in the US based on more than 5,000 reviews on Trustpilot. Try ZipRecruiter for free today at ZipRecruiter.com/Founder.

Wishpond – Wishpond offers a suite of tools to help businesses generate new leads. With Wishpond you can create beautiful landing pages, coupons, and social media contests, all of which can be customized using tailored forms to capture your leads’ name, email, phone number, and more. Wishpond also offers email and text message marketing tools so you can send out segmented communications to your customers. Click here to sign up for a free 14-day no-risk trial of Wishpond.

Dan Shapiro is the Founder & CEO of Glowforge, which makes a 3D laser printer that can print and shape wood, leather, food, and more.

In the interview, Dan tells us how he launched the most successful crowdfunding campaign in history, and teaches us some crowdfunding best practices he learned in the process.

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Partners

ZipRecruiter – ZipRecruiter is rated #1 for hiring by employers in the US based on more than 5,000 reviews on Trustpilot. Try ZipRecruiter for free today at ZipRecruiter.com/Founder.

Wishpond – Wishpond offers a suite of tools to help businesses generate new leads. With Wishpond you can create beautiful landing pages, coupons, and social media contests, all of which can be customized using tailored forms to capture your leads’ name, email, phone number, and more. Wishpond also offers email and text message marketing tools so you can send out segmented communications to your customers. Click here to sign up for a free 14-day no-risk trial of Wishpond.

Robi Ganguly is the Co-Founder & CEO of Apptentive, a customer feedback platform that provides actionable customer feedback at scale.

In the interview, Robi tells us his greatest challenge with the business and also talks about the importance of understanding your customers.

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Partners

ZipRecruiter – ZipRecruiter is rated #1 for hiring by employers in the US based on more than 5,000 reviews on Trustpilot. Try ZipRecruiter for free today at ZipRecruiter.com/Founder.

Wishpond – Wishpond offers a suite of tools to help businesses generate new leads. With Wishpond you can create beautiful landing pages, coupons, and social media contests, all of which can be customized using tailored forms to capture your leads’ name, email, phone number, and more. Wishpond also offers email and text message marketing tools so you can send out segmented communications to your customers. Click here to sign up for a free 14-day no-risk trial of Wishpond.

Slava Agafonov is the Founder & CEO of Energsoft, which creates machine learning software that enables clean tech research.

In the interview, Slava talks about the importance of content creation in growing their business as well as the challenges of selling to customers as an early-stage startup.

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Partners

ZipRecruiter – ZipRecruiter is rated #1 for hiring by employers in the US based on more than 5,000 reviews on Trustpilot. Try ZipRecruiter for free today at ZipRecruiter.com/Founder.

Wishpond – Wishpond offers a suite of tools to help businesses generate new leads. With Wishpond you can create beautiful landing pages, coupons, and social media contests, all of which can be customized using tailored forms to capture your leads’ name, email, phone number, and more. Wishpond also offers email and text message marketing tools so you can send out segmented communications to your customers. Click here to sign up for a free 14-day no-risk trial of Wishpond.

Sarah Daniels is the Co-Founder & CEO of Blue Canoe, which uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to help non-native English speakers master pronunciation.

In the interview, Sarah tells us how she got her first customers and also the challenges of getting learners to develop practicing habits.

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Partners

ZipRecruiter – ZipRecruiter is rated #1 for hiring by employers in the US based on more than 5,000 reviews on Trustpilot. Try ZipRecruiter for free today at ZipRecruiter.com/Founder.

Wishpond – Wishpond offers a suite of tools to help businesses generate new leads. With Wishpond you can create beautiful landing pages, coupons, and social media contests, all of which can be customized using tailored forms to capture your leads’ name, email, phone number, and more. Wishpond also offers email and text message marketing tools so you can send out segmented communications to your customers. Click here to sign up for a free 14-day no-risk trial of Wishpond.

Eddie Behringer is the Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer of Snap! Raise, the largest team based online fundraising platform in the US.

In the interview, Eddie discusses some of the challenges they faced at different growth stages of the company. He also emphasizes the important of bringing the right people on board every step of the way.

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Partners

ZipRecruiter – ZipRecruiter is rated #1 for hiring by employers in the US based on more than 5,000 reviews on Trustpilot. Try ZipRecruiter for free today at ZipRecruiter.com/Founder.

Wishpond – Wishpond offers a suite of tools to help businesses generate new leads. With Wishpond you can create beautiful landing pages, coupons, and social media contests, all of which can be customized using tailored forms to capture your leads’ name, email, phone number, and more. Wishpond also offers email and text message marketing tools so you can send out segmented communications to your customers. Click here to sign up for a free 14-day no-risk trial of Wishpond.

Daryn Nakhuda is the Co-Founder & CEO of Mighty AI, which delivers training data to build computer vision models.

In the interview, Daryn tells us how he got his first customers and how he learned to always think about the customer first while at Amazon.

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Partners

ZipRecruiter – ZipRecruiter is rated #1 for hiring by employers in the US based on more than 5,000 reviews on Trustpilot. Try ZipRecruiter for free today at ZipRecruiter.com/Founder.

Wishpond – Wishpond offers a suite of tools to help businesses generate new leads. With Wishpond you can create beautiful landing pages, coupons, and social media contests, all of which can be customized using tailored forms to capture your leads’ name, email, phone number, and more. Wishpond also offers email and text message marketing tools so you can send out segmented communications to your customers. Click here to sign up for a free 14-day no-risk trial of Wishpond.

Grant Canary is the Founder & CEO of DroneSeed, which uses drone swarms to plant tree seeds in forests.

In the interview, Grant talks about the important of mission in his business and also tells us about some of the, what he calls "bad" ideas, that led up to him starting DroneSeed.

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Partners

ZipRecruiter – ZipRecruiter is rated #1 for hiring by employers in the US based on more than 5,000 reviews on Trustpilot. Try ZipRecruiter for free today at ZipRecruiter.com/Founder.

Wishpond – Wishpond offers a suite of tools to help businesses generate new leads. With Wishpond you can create beautiful landing pages, coupons, and social media contests, all of which can be customized using tailored forms to capture your leads’ name, email, phone number, and more. Wishpond also offers email and text message marketing tools so you can send out segmented communications to your customers. Click here to sign up for a free 14-day no-risk trial of Wishpond.

Xiao Wang is the Co-Founder & CEO of Boundless, which helps immigrants more easily navigate the immigration process.

In the interview, Xiao opens up about his own experience of immigrating to the US from China, and how that experience coupled with his experience in tech inspired him to start Boundless.

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Partners

ZipRecruiter – ZipRecruiter is rated #1 for hiring by employers in the US based on more than 5,000 reviews on Trustpilot. Try ZipRecruiter for free today at ZipRecruiter.com/Founder.

Wishpond – Wishpond offers a suite of tools to help businesses generate new leads. With Wishpond you can create beautiful landing pages, coupons, and social media contests, all of which can be customized using tailored forms to capture your leads’ name, email, phone number, and more. Wishpond also offers email and text message marketing tools so you can send out segmented communications to your customers. Click here to sign up for a free 14-day no-risk trial of Wishpond.