How do you bootstrap a profitable company and get nearly a million developers to sign up? You’re about to meet a founder who says he did it by not caring about money. Joining me is Tom Preston-Werner, co-founder of GitHub, a site that enables developers to collaborate on code. GitHub is growing and attracting developers quickly, with well over $1M in annual revenue.
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GitHub: Motivated By Recognition, Not Money? – with Tom Preston-Werner | Business Tips
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How Blogs Helped The Four Hour Work Week Become a Best Seller – The Timothy Ferriss Interview | Business Tips
I’m sick of the usual interviews with Tim Ferriss, which waste time arguing over whether it’s possible to work four hours a week. What I want to know is how Tim got so many people to talk about him and his book, The Four Hour Work Week, and how he made his book into a New York Times Best Seller.
So I called him up and did my own interview. Here’s what I learned.
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Doejo: Do As Many Things As You Love – with Philip Tadros | Business Tips
Why should you limit yourself? says Philip Tadros, founder of Doejo.
I bet you’ll have a hard time keeping up with all the different projects he’s taken on. He owns coffee shops. Does design for companies like Groupon. Creates his own software products.
How does he do it? That’s what I set out to find out in this interview.
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The Unified Field Theory of Google - IEEE Spectrum
A Techwise Conversation with Google+ designer Joseph Smarr
http://spectrum.ieee.org/podcast/at-work/innovation/the-unified-field-theory-of-google
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AlexShalman.com Podcast #006 – Interviewing Derek Sivers | AlexShalman.com
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Venture Voice: VV Show #50 - Derek Sivers of CD Baby and Muckwork
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Venture Voice: VV Show #19 - Derek Sivers of CD Baby
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How A Musician Built A $22 Million Dollar Business From His Home. –The Derek Sivers Interview | Business Tips
Derek Sivers created CD Baby because he needed a way to sell his music online. Soon other musicians asked him to help them sell their music. A few years later, he found himself helping over 100,000 artists sell their music. He recently sold his company for $22 million.
He’s now running a new company, but he’s always willing to help startups. So I called him up and asked him to teach us. Here’s some of what I learned. (Download the interview to learn more.)
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How to Speak Persuasively: Scientific American Podcast
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LivingSocial’s Founder: A Multimillion Dollar Hit Is Not Enough – with Tim O’Shaughnessy