How to Avoid the Entrepreneurial Gap
Today’s guest has recently ended a 34-year career as a serial direct marketer, and has now made the transition from intrapreneur to entrepreneur. My guest made this transition while taking Boardroom Inc., which he worked within and later became a partner of, from around $3 million in revenues in 1981 to a high of $150 million, and creating marketing messages that have reached well over 1 billio...
44m Mar 23, 2015
44m
HTE 071: Scott Oldford on Becoming Transparent and Finding Authenticity
Today’s guest is a young entrepreneur that has spent half of his life in technology, marketing, and building businesses. By the age of 21 he had three catastrophic business failures and found himself 100’s of thousands of dollars in debt. Now, at the age of 23, he is the founder of Infinitus Marketing and Technology, a company he has been building for nearly two years. He was the recipient o...
35m Mar 17, 2015
35m
HTE 070: How to Find and Follow Your Inner-voice w/ Jessica Rea
Today’s guest is not only a smart entrepreneur, she is also part designer, part business strategist, and part coach. A few years ago she would’ve told you that she wasn’t an entrepreneur, but this has changed. She now runs her own successful business and helps other ladypreneurs gain the clarity + confidence they need to connect with their ideal clients, build their brand + business online…and ...
33m Mar 11, 2015
33m
HTE 069: Creating a Mission That is Worth Spending Your Life On w/ Landon Ray
Today’s guest is a serial entrepreneur. He has unparalleled perseverance and has failed more times than most. At the age of 25, with money he got from his father, my guest made the transformation from a street vendor of flowers, into a top securities day trader, in only 12 months. This alone is a brilliant story, but just the beginning. After beating the odds on Wall Street, my guest has taken ...
30m Mar 09, 2015
30m
HTE 068: Get Over Yourself and Get Things Done w/ Steven Aitchison
Today’s guest is an online entrepreneur. In August 2006 he started the blog Change Your Thoughts – Change Your Life. This blog has gone onto become the #1 personal development blog in the UK. In 2012 he quit his job as addiction support worker to make the move to full-time blogger and entrepreneur; he has not looked back. He has written 4 books and spoken on many stages. He has accomplished...
33m Mar 06, 2015
33m
HTE 067: Adii Pienaar on Looking for the Biggest Opportunity to Make Mistakes
Today’s guest is an entrepreneur in the truest sense, and at times even to his own detriment. In 2007, my guest started a one-man web design company in Cape Town, South Africa and within a few years he turned it into the worldwide brand that is now known as WooThemes — a multi-million dollar WordPress company with more than a million users. In 2013, my guest exited that company and being the ...
33m Mar 04, 2015
33m
HTE 066: Optimize, Automate and Outsource Everything in Your Life w/ Ari Meisel
Today’s guest is an author and entrepreneur who successfully overcame Crohn’s disease with his incredible willpower, understanding and testing of nutrition, and rigorous exercise. He launched his entrepreneurial career early, when at the age of twelve he agreed to create a company website for one of his father’s business associates. This was the foundation of Liontex, a web development company ...
30m Mar 02, 2015
30m
HTE 065: Garrett Dimon on Not Being Afraid to be Honest
Today’s guest is an entrepreneur that founded a great company that is not solely focused on growth. The software he built is called Sifter, an extremely popular bug and issue tracking application for companies that develop software. It went live on December 4th, 2008 and became my full-time endeavour in July of 2010. He launched Sifter by building up an email list of about 1,000 people by blogg...
34m Feb 25, 2015
34m
HTE 064: Influencing Growth and Having a Mission to Contribute w/ Dalia Asterbadi
Today’s guest is an inspiring entrepreneur who defies the odds in a male-driven industry and has many thoughts on changing this status quo. Rather than focusing on issues, she collaborates with organizations to provide a gateway for young people to develop interest in technology and entrepreneurship. When she was 8 years old she submitted her first marketing plan, managed a non-profit event at ...
33m Feb 23, 2015
33m
HTE 063: Running a Portfolio Business and Taking Permission w/ Andy Traub
A few years ago, my guest today emailed Seth Godin to ask if he could produce a podcast based on Seth’s hit book Linchpin. Seth said yes, and The Unofficial Linchpin Podcast was born. That takes guts and I respect anyone that is willing to come up with a mutually beneficial idea and then ask for what they want. In that same year he partnered with Cliff Ravenscraft, the world’s most popular podc...
37m Feb 20, 2015
37m
HTE 062: Jessica Turner on The Fringe Hours and Making Time For Your Business
One of the hardest parts of starting your own business and becoming an entrepreneur is finding the time. This gets even harder when you have a job, family and all of the demands that come with both of these. Today’s guest is different than every other guest I have had on the show, so far. She is an entrepreneur, but only during her Fringe Hours. She has a full-time job working in social media a...
29m Feb 18, 2015
29m
HTE 061: Oren Klaff on the Ability to Communicate and Pitch Anything
Today’s guest is responsible for more than $500 Million in successful business pitches and deals. He helps people sell companies for a living. He is the Director of Capital Markets for the investment bank, Intersection Capital, where he raises tens of millions of dollars from investors and institutions. He is the author of a must read book called, Pitch Anything - a book that I have read twice ...
37m Feb 16, 2015
37m
HTE 060: From Corporate to Startup with the Power of Storytelling w/ Josh Anon
Today’s guest is a man of many passions and pursuits. From startups, to award-winning Pixar films, to iPhone apps, to his photos having been displayed at the Smithsonian, as well as co-authoring several books. He is the Co-Founder/CEO of Visioneer Studios, where they aim to revolutionize how movies are made and to create fun, continuously-successful stories, starting with low-budget, live-actio...
37m Feb 13, 2015
37m
HTE 059: Brian Clark on Partnerships and the Creativity of Limitations
When I originally sat down to outline the idea for Hack The Entrepreneur, I immediately wrote out a short list of  people that I wanted to interview. I used this list as one of my metrics for success and I am happy to say that today’s guest is number two on that list. The idea that one person could start a blog, not sell anything for 18 months, and turn that blog into an 8-figure media company...
42m Feb 11, 2015
42m
HTE 058: Sunni Brown on Refusing to Scale and Being Kind to Others
Today’s guest is an amazing entrepreneur, artist and human. She is founder of SB Ink, a creative consultancy and an agent of social change. She is also the author and leader of a global campaign for visual literacy called The Doodle Revolution. My guest has worked with companies like Disney, Sharpie, Zappos and SXSW. Using common sense, experience and neuroscience, she is proving that to doodle...
30m Feb 09, 2015
30m
HTE 057: Decide Where You Want To Be and Don’t Stop Until You To Get There w/ David Risley
Today’s guest has been an working online for 17 years. He makes his living as the founder of Blog Marketing Academy where he helps people grow their blogs into a profitable business. He’s managed to build himself a six-figure business from this and still manages to spend plenty of time with his wife and children. He is an entrepreneur, blogger, author, speaker, and a consultant that knows what ...
31m Feb 06, 2015
31m
HTE 056: Being Terrified to Hit Publish and Neglecting Your Clients w/ Elisa Doucette
Today’s guest has spent years as a location independent entrepreneur and freelancer. She has lived in Indonesia, Thailand, and the Philippines, and has traveled through many other Southeast Asian, North American, and European countries. My guest has worked for over a decade creating compelling content and writing for various businesses and publications. She is currently the founder of the writi...
38m Feb 04, 2015
38m
HTE 055: Jordan Harbinger on Core Values and Trying Things That Didn’t Work
Today’s guest is a former lawyer turned entrepreneur. He follows a core principle in his own life, and upon which his company was founded; that is that one should leave everything and everyone better than they were before they met. By bringing positivity and abundance to others, you can’t go wrong. He is the co-founder of The Art Of Charm, which is an insanely popular website that teaches ordin...
32m Feb 02, 2015
32m
HTE 054: Finding Your Wisdom, Theming Your Time and the Seinfeld Ritual w/ Mike Vardy
Today's guest makes his living working from home writing, speaking, and stay-at-home fathering. He is also the founder of Productivityist, an online resource designed to help you start being productive. He has served as the Managing Editor at Lifehack. He regularly contributes articles Lifehacker, The Next Web, SUCCESS Magazine, and The Huffington Post. He is the author of several books, includ...
37m Jan 30, 2015
37m
HTE 053: Dame Stephanie Shirley on Living a Life Worth Saving and Building a Software Empire
Today’s guest is an absolute legend of entrepreneurism, philanthropy and perserverance. My guest was born in Germany, in 1933 – the year the Nazis came to power – she fled to Britain at the age of six as a Kindertransport refugee, one of 10,000 Jewish children whose parents sent them away to escape persecution. She was raised by a couple in England that took her and her sister in. As a girl ...
40m Jan 28, 2015
40m
HTE 052: Jesse Mecham on Being Confidently Humble and The Ability To Change Your Mind
Go to school, get good grades, go to college and become a Professional Accountant. That’s what they say, right? Today’s guest did just that, but with a slight twist. Immediately after he obtained his Master’s of Accountancy degree and then his CPA license, he let it lapse so he could work on his business full-time. He is a brilliant entrepreneur and the founder of YouNeedABudget.com — Softwa...
30m Jan 26, 2015
30m
HTE 051: Building a Business as a Blog in 8 Months w/ Cynthia Sanchez
Today’s guest is clearly on a path to success and I am really happy to have her on the show today. She started to use Pinterest in 2011, and noticed that she was saying Pinterest over and over again to my friends and family. She was discovering things online that she would’ve never found before. She was so excited by the pinterest that she decided to start a blog about it — this was February 20...
30m Jan 23, 2015
30m
HTE 050: James Clear on Having a Defined Process and Showing Up Consistently
Today’s guest is an entrepreneur, weightlifter, and travel photographer. He has started four businesses over the course of his entrepreneurial career and two of them have succeeded. His real success has been his personal blog. He started consistently posting twice per week in very late 2012 and has not missed a post since. Not only that, but he has an email list of over 100,000 people, is regul...
28m Jan 21, 2015
28m
HTE 049: The Evolutionary Process of Business w/ Jay Gould
Today’s guest is a serial tech entrepreneur, husband, father and investor. He has been starting businesses online for a long time — some have failed, some have succeed in a massive way. In 2005, he sold his first business InterMedia, to Bolt Media and joined Bolt as its President. During his time at Bolt he co-founded WikiYou, which raised $500,000 from investors. He went on and co-founded Yash...
29m Jan 19, 2015
29m
HTE 048: Projecting a Humble Confidence and Refining Decisions w/ Chris Myers
Today’s guest is co-founder and CEO of BodeTree, an online financial analytics platform that brings the tools & insights of the Fortune 500 to the Fortune 5,000,000. Prior to founding BodeTree, he was a consultant consultant, and self-proclaimed cog in the corporate machine. When he’s not running his business or chasing his son around the park, you might find him writng and being featured as a ...
31m Jan 16, 2015
31m
HTE 047: Having a Clear Vision and Looking Forward w/ Thomas Smale
Today’s guest is an entrepreneur that is kicking some serious butt, has a great business and I feel that he is going to do some really big things in the coming years. Thomas Smale co-founded FE International in 2010, growing the business with zero start-up funds from scratch to the 7-figure business it is today. He specialises in brokering the sale of established websites. His company also acti...
31m Jan 14, 2015
31m
HTE 046: David Meerman Scott on Finding Patterns You Can Turn Into Success
Today’s guests is an online marketing strategist and author of several books on marketing, most notably The New Rules of Marketing and PR with over 300,000 copies sold to date. At the height of the dot-com boom, he was vice president of marketing at NewsEdge Corporation, an online news distributor with $70 million in revenue. In 2002, after NewsEdge was sold he was fired. Like any entrepreneur ...
34m Jan 12, 2015
34m
HTE 045: UGG Boots: An Incredible Vision w/ Brian Smith
Today’s guest cleared his own path to success with over 30 years of hard work and it paid off big time. At 29 and living in his home country of Australia, he decided that a life in Public Accounting was not for him! He quit his job and went to California to look for a new business idea and to surf all the legendary breaks. He soon noticed that there were no sheepskin boots in California, so h...
34m Jan 09, 2015
34m
HTE 044: How To Use Your Fears To Grow Your Business w/ Jay Baer
Today’s guest, Jay Baer, has spent 20 years in digital marketing, consulting for more than 700 companies during that period, including 30 of the FORTUNE 500. His current company – Convince & Convert – is the fifth multi-million dollar company he has started from scratch. Before his move into digital marketing in 1994 he was a brand marketer and a political consultant, with major roles in stat...
31m Jan 07, 2015
31m
HTE 043: How To Build Your Dream Business w/ Jim Palmer
Today’s guest, Jim Palmer,  is known internationally as 'The Newsletter Guru'.Jim is a Marketing Expert, coach, and the Host of Newsletter Guru TV, the weekly web tv show watched by ten’s of thousands of Entrepreneurs and small business owners. He is the founder and President of Custom Newsletters, Inc., parent company of No Hassle Newsletters, No Hassle Social Media, as well as a5 or 6 other c...
32m Jan 05, 2015
32m
HTE 042: The Key To Success Is Authenticity and Generosity w/ Jared Easley
Today’s guest is clearly on a path to success and I am really happy to have him on the show today. He is a self-described “everyday guy” who is passionate about connecting with others, communicating, leveraging new media & cultivating a community of like-minded citizens. He is co-founder of the Podcast Movement — the first, and only one that I know of, conference solely based around podcasting....
36m Dec 31, 2014
36m
HTE 041: Stop Playing The Entrepreneurial Lottery w/ Ace Chapman
Today’s guest started his entrepreneurial journey after dropping out of college, getting a job and then being downsized in his early twenties. He made some sacrifices, began investing in real estate, and realized he had a knack for it. He went on to buy a franchise and put up billboards all over the city saying, “We Buy Ugly Houses.” He grew that business to be his first million dollar business...
34m Dec 29, 2014
34m
HTE 040: Master Yourself and Master Your World w/ Sameer Sharma
Today’s guest is a man on a mission to master his business and himself. He is the founder of Stoic Financial — a real estate investment firm in the Washington DC area. He is also a student of martial arts and currently pursuing a journey towards self-mastery; he likens the discipline and awareness required when being attacked by four people at once to being faced with a business negotiation or ...
26m Dec 26, 2014
26m
HTE 039: Move At The Speed Of Instruction w/ Jessica Rhodes
Today’s guest on Hack The Entrepreneur is the founder of Entrepreneur Support Services, a business providing services to busy and time strapped entrepreneurs. Everyone is talking about outsourcing and delegating tasks in your business, right? Well, my guest decided to take it a step further and she build a business around the demand.She also founded a successful company called Interview Connect...
32m Dec 24, 2014
32m
HTE 038: Most Things In Life Fail. It's Ok. w/ James Altucher
Today’s guest is one of my all-time favourite writers. I never go more than a few months without rereading his book Choose Yourself. He is an American hedge fund manager, entrepreneur, bestselling author, blogger and podcaster. He has founded or cofounded over 20 companies and 17 have failed. He sold one for $15 million and spent all of the money — all of it. Then he built and sold another with...
49m Dec 22, 2014
49m
HTE 037 Learn To Live In Complete Chaos w/ Kendra Stephen
A new year is fast approaching and with that I am putting together a small group of like-minded people looking to take action and make 2015 an awesome year. You are who you surround yourself with, so surround yourself with those that want to do the work necessary to make a change in their lives. Check it out here. Today’s guest is a Business Attorney and Entrepreneur. She is the founder and ...
42m Dec 17, 2014
42m
HTE 036 Start Before You Feel Ready w/ Rob Cubbon
Today’s guest is an entrepreneur on his path to success. I met him recently on Facebook. His name kept popping up and it seemed like he was constantly creating new products and selling them. I have to admit he caught my attention. He has been a graphic designer and creative director for print and web since 1995 working in publishing, marketing and advertising. But now he has moved into the worl...
32m Dec 15, 2014
32m
HTE 035 Always Move Forward w/ James Sinclair
Welcome back to part 2 of our very first Co-founders series. Today’s guest is also co-founder of EnterpriseJungle along with Emma Sinclair who we featured in the last episode. He started young and had some early exits, which led to a number of advisory roles with emerging companies seeking to accelerate growth. He has an absolute willingness to fail, he thinks you should always have a side g...
35m Dec 12, 2014
35m
HTE 034 Growing A Business Gives Me Financial Independence, A Voice, and A Platform
37m Dec 10, 2014
37m
HTE 033: Optimizing For Discomfort w/ Eliot Peper
Today’s entrepreneur has been a founder and early team member at multiple startups. He is also a writer and business consultant. As an author he writes Startup Fiction — yes, sounds odd. It is a bit, yet it’s awesome. I am just finishing up his first novel UnCommon Stock Version 1.0 and I have learned so much about the inner workings of a startup and VC funding. And I can’t wait to dive into hi...
34m Dec 08, 2014
34m
HTE 032: I’m So Afraid, It’s Impossible For Me To Fail w/ Morgan Carey
Today’s entrepreneur absolutely blew my mind. He is 35 years old and lives in a small town called Nanaimo, B.C., where his tech firm is one of the cities largest employers, with a staff of 170. He started his business in 2004 as a single father, taking care of his son and little brother, while also attending school during the day and working at night. In his spare time he studied and mastered t...
29m Dec 05, 2014
29m
HTE 031: We Need To Know Enough To Be Dangerous w/ Michael Sacca
Today’s guest on Hack the Entrepreneur is a Father. Husband. Maker of many, many cool things online and a brilliant podcaster. He is currently the co-founder WithCircle, where they build software for teams that want to stay connected. Before most people have even started on their idea, this man has starter, pivoted, and pivoted again on his way to building an amazing startup. You will hear With...
27m Dec 03, 2014
27m
HTE 030: Grind Away and Put In The Work w/ Connor Riley
Today’s guest is from Phoenix, Arizona and was raised in a family of entrepreneurs. He attended the McGuire Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Arizona, where he came up with an innovative business idea —- subscription based coffee —- and called it MistoBox.. Before graduating, he and his co-founder Samantha Meis launched a successful Kickstarter campaign where he received the init...
32m Dec 01, 2014
32m
HTE 029 Entrepreneurship As An Artistic Process w/ David Kadavy
Today on Hack The Entrepreneur we have the author of the Amazon best-selling book, Design for Hackers: Reverse-Engineering Beauty. To be clear, he no longer considers himself a designer and we do not talk design. He has worked as a designer, then wrote one blog post about design and got a book deal. Prior to writing Design for Hackers, he founded the Design departments at two Silicon Valley sta...
38m Nov 28, 2014
38m
HTE 028 Reinventing Business Education w/ Omar Zenhom
Today’ guest on Hack The Entrepreneur is on the path to success. He is both an entrepreneur and educator. He is Co-Founder of Business Republic, where he, and his partner Nicole, started an alternative business education program called The $100 MBA --- a culmination of his years in business and education. They also now offer daily free 10 minute business lessons with their podcast The $100 MBA ...
39m Nov 26, 2014
39m
HTE 027 Finding A Multiplier Effect For Your Income
Today’s guest on Hack The Entrepreneur is an entrepreneur and an inventor, that consistently earns millions of dollars licensing his ideas to companies like Disney, Nestle, and Coca-Cola. He is not high-tech, but he knows how to take an idea and very quickly make it a global sensation. Before becoming savvy inventor, he spent part of the 1980s as the head of design at Worlds Of Wonder. They had...
28m Nov 24, 2014
28m
HTE 026 Learn To Think Big w/ Gabriel Weinberg
32m Nov 20, 2014
32m
The Real Money In Business Comes From The Soft Skills w/ J V Crum III
36m Nov 18, 2014
36m
HTE 024 Done Is Better Than Perfect w/ Farideh Ceaser
Today’s guest has spent her life in creative entrepreneurship. As a musician, she has toured the world making a personal connection with various audiences through her voice, storytelling and humour. Her musical accomplishments include international tours, live television performances, and thousands of CD’s sold. She has also worked on the marketing teams of several multi-million dollar corporat...
30m Nov 14, 2014
30m
HTE 023 Create Value That Is Not Connected To Your Time w/ Ryan Daniel Moran
36m Nov 12, 2014
36m