187: Fighting Global Poverty by Breaking Entrepreneurial Rules, With Jacqueline Novogratz of Acumen
Key Takeaways - Acumen's trailblazing vision on global poverty eradication - Why it's better to invest in people first, then ideas - The companies Acumen has invested in and the depth of impact they h...
21 Feb 201837min
185: How Defying Silicon Valley Culture Landed 400K Clients, with Melody McCloskey of StyleSeat
Melody McCloskey is the founder of StyleSeat, a San Francisco-based SaaS company that has raised $40 million in funding, powers billions in transactions and is recognized in 82% of American cities. St...
8 Feb 201836min
184: The Unconventional Approach That Built an Online Education Empire of 3M Students, With Ajit Nawalkha of Mindvalley
Unlike most entrepreneurs, Ajit Nawalkha doesn't focus on profit, revenue, sales, or customer surveys to grow his company. He's also been known to abandon some of his products, even when they're highl...
31 Jan 201848min
183: Husband-and-Wife Founders Share Two Decade's Worth of Game-Changing Entrepreneurial Advice
Key Takeaways Lessons learned from more than 20 years of experience as entrepreneurs The defining action that tripled their conversions and led to the sale of their first company The one marketing ...
24 Jan 20181h 2min
182: Eric Ries on Pioneering the Lean Startup Movement and How to Grow Any Company to Scale
Key Takeaways The hard-earned lessons Ries learned that ultimately led to the creation of his renowned book, The Lean Startup, and ushered in a worldwide movement How to hire and assign managers suc...
18 Jan 201836min
181: Running a 7-Figure Business On 5.5 Hours a Day, With Ari Meisel of Less Doing
Entrepreneurs find inspiration in all sorts of places. But for Ari Meisel, founder, bestselling author, and productivity expert, desperation was the driving force behind the launch of his successful c...
11 Jan 201857min
180: How a Made-Up Idea for a Business Became the Second-Largest Expense Reporting Company, with Expensify’s David Barrett
What if you could stumble upon a game-changing idea without spending time and money on validation, industry research, or prototypes? And then grow this idea into the second largest company in your nic...
3 Jan 201845min
179: How Kiva's Jessica Jackley Turned a Simple Idea into $1B in Microloans
Jessica Jackley, co-founder of the game-changing microlending site Kiva, never played the typical role from entrepreneurial stories we're accustomed to hearing. She didn't start a business as a kid, a...
20 Dec 201734min
