The Side Hustle Project

In today’s episode, we’re talking to Wade Foster, the CEO, and Founder of Zapier, the connector tool that allows you to sync data between web apps.

In today’s episode, we’re talking to Michael Sacca, the director of business development and marketing at Dribbble by day and the co-host of Rocketship.fm by night.

In this episode, we uncover the Quuu story. Co-Founders Daniel Kempe and Matthew Spurr talk through going from launching Quuu as a side project in just one weekend, to growing all the way up to more than $31,000 in monthly recurring revenue from their customers who pay to have content shared through connected social media accounts. We hear about how they built the platform, how they're acquiring users, and much more...

In today’s episode, we’re talking to Hiten Shah. Hiten has started three SaaS companies since 2005 - Crazy Egg, KISSmetrics and Quick Sprout - all with his co-founder, Neil Patel.

Intro to the episode: Welcome to The Side Hustle Project, a podcast where we explore the nitty gritty details behind what it takes to start and grow a profitable side hustle. I’m your host Ryan Robinson. In this podcast, I’m bringing you interviews with entrepreneurs, bestselling authors, CEO's, investors and people just like you, who are building (and profiting from) interesting side hustles.

In today’s episode, we’re talking to bestselling author Max Altschuler, the CEO of SalesHacker, author of Hacking Sales and his brand new book coming in March 2018—called Career Hacking for Millennials. Max has helped build 3 multi-million dollar businesses today and he still has his hand in a LOT of different companies… whether they’re side projects like his new venture, Sutra Coffee or as an investor or advisor to nearly 40 SaaS startups. Originally from Long Island, New York… Max went to college at Arizona State University where he got his first real taste of business. He and a few friends won a business plan competition, got a $2,000 grant, and started building out a campus-wide bike-sharing program that was backed by the university… but this was 2009 and the US was in the depths of one of the deepest recessions we’ve seen in nearly a lifetime. So, Max and his partners couldn’t get funding for their business and they had to close down shop. He learned a lot from this first experience and it eventually brought him to San Francisco where he worked for the online education startup, Udemy as their very first sales hire. After spending a couple years building out the company’s sales process, Max launched a side project called SalesHacker—a live event that netted him a $60,000 profit on his first go-round. Pretty shortly thereafter, he dove head first into growing SalesHacker into the business it is today… generating over $3 Million in annual revenue from events, media partnerships, sponsors, and products… on top of that, they’re bringing in over 100,000 monthly readers. Growing that business has led Max to launching more side projects like Sutra Coffee—a h

In today’s episode, we’re talking to Jan Schulz-Hofen, the co-founder and managing director at Planio, a project management platform that’s build to make team & client collaboration more efficient and fun. What I like most about Planio, is that the company actually started as a side project—and is today bringing in nearly $85,000 in monthly recurring revenue… which is over $1 Million/year. About 10 years ago, Jan was in the middle of running his own web design & development agency in Berlin, called Launch Co. They partnered with clients like Software AG, Enterprise Rails, and Font Shop to help build and launch Ruby on Rails applications… and all the while, Jan’s team was constantly launching their own side projects—knowing they’d want to get into running a product-focused business, rather than being service providers forever. So naturally, Planio was born out of their drive to create a solution to a consistent problem they were seeing with their clients… they’d help clients build and launch new projects, but after that… many of them didn’t have a good process in place for continuing to manage those new projects. So, Jan and his team built Planio… and they got their first customers for the product by selling it to their existing pool of web development clients. Going on almost 7 years with Planio now, they’ve been steadily growing their revenue and team…

In today’s episode, we’re talking to Michelle Schroeder, the blogger and online educator behind the personal finance website, Making Sense of Cents… Michelle got her start with personal finance in her own life when, after graduating from college and getting her MBA, she’d accumulated more than $38,000 in student loan debt.

In today’s episode, we’re talking to Chase Jarvis, the CEO and Co-Founder of CreativeLive, the world’s largest live-streaming education company that’s had on instructors like Reid Hoffman, Tim Ferriss, Gary Vaynerchuk, Richard Branson and man, many more. Chase and I actually met back when I was working for him at CreativeLive—doing the marketing for their business classes, and I’ll be the first to tell you… he has a fascinating life story and it wasn’t always sunshine & rainbows for him. Chase is a multi-dimensional guy, and before founding CreativeLive—he was a serious college athlete on track to head to med school. But at that same time, Chase decided to pick up the camera his late grandfather had left him… he began shooting images of friends out skating & snowboarding, and eventually started to get paid for his photographs. Chase has built an incredible career for himself as an award-winning photographer, director, and artist. He’s done photography work for companies like Apple, Google, Red Bull, Microsoft and literally dozens of other household brands & sports figures. Chase has contributed to Pulitzer Prize-winning work, been nominated for an Emmy, and he somehow finds time to speak & host his own variety of online shows for his massive community.

In today’s episode, we’re talking to Dorie Clark, a marketing and strategy consultant who’s worked with companies like Google, Microsoft, The World Bank, and Morgan Stanley. On top of that, Dorie is a bestselling author, and a frequent contributor to publications like the Harvard Business Review, Entrepreneur and Forbes. Dorie’s books include Reinventing You, Stand Out, which was named the #1 leadership book of 2015 by Inc Magazine… and her most recent book that just came out toward the end of 2017, called Entrepreneurial You. Today’s interview is actually one that I originally did for The Inside Sales Summit a couple months ago—it was an online event I co-hosted with Close.io (the inside sales crm of choice for startups) and we had over 8,000 people join us to learn about all things sales… from speakers like Chase Jarvis, Vanessa Van Edwards, Grant Cardone, Neil Patel, Noah Kagan and more. So, if you like what you hear today and want to continue your education in becoming a more effective salesperson—regardless of what your side project is—then check out the other 54 interviews just like this over at insidesalessummit. com. But for today, we’re here with Dorie Clark.