HTE 322: Finding Your Superpowers | Dominic Johnson-Hill
Before today’s guest built a successful company in China, he was just a wandering 20-year-old backpacker, only looking for an adventure.   He planned on making a brief stop in the city of Beijing to earn some funds, see the Great Wall and move onto his next adventure. Turns out it would do more than just earn him enough funds to travel, it would lead him to become a pillar of Beijing’s pop cult...
33m Feb 27, 2017
33m
HTE 321: Understanding Business as a System of Inputs | Liston Witherall
My guest today is a copywriter, funnel maker, and an entrepreneur. Back in 2014, my guest ran marketing and sales for a $10M consulting firm. While there, one of his focuses was digital marketing. After studying it relentlessly, he found out how much he enjoyed helping businesses grow. He is now the founder of GoodFunnel, where he and his team help small businesses grow their online sales chann...
30m Feb 21, 2017
30m
HTE 320: [GOING DEEP] What Entrepreneurs Need to Know About SEO in 2017
As entrepreneurs, we tend to focus on building products and providing services. We have a tendency to think that if we create something valuable enough, customers will flood in the door. Yet, we hear crickets. SEO — or search engine optimization — is not only about getting visitors to your website, it’s about getting people who are buyers to your site. Our customers go to Google when they want ...
49m Feb 20, 2017
49m
HTE 319: Hiring Smart People is Key to Building a Great Business | Thomas Smale
Today’s guest is an entrepreneur that is doing some awesome things, has a great business and I feel that he is going to do some seriously big things in the coming years.   He 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 specializes in brokering the sale of established websites. His company also actively ...
32m Feb 16, 2017
32m
HTE 318: Collecting Advisors and Building FreshBooks | Mike McDerment
My guest today is a former designer, collector of advisors, and Canadian entrepreneur. In January 2003, he was running a four person design agency. He was using Microsoft Word to create his firm’s invoices. One day, he accidentally saved over an old invoice, and something in him snapped – he knew there had to be a better way. Over the next two weeks, he coded up a solution for his clients and e...
31m Feb 14, 2017
31m
HTE 317: The Power of Self-Education | Bridget Hilton
Today’s guest is a social entrepreneur. About 10 years ago, she took some off-the-cuff advice that said, you should build your career around three things you are passionate about. For my guest, these three things are music, charity, and the environment. She is presently the founder of LSTN Headphones, a headphone company with a goal of giving the gift hearing to those without. Perhaps you are o...
34m Feb 13, 2017
34m
HTE 316: Breaking Out of Your Comfort Zone | Kalvir Sandhu
My guest today is a software developer, team builder, and an entrepreneur. He has been building for the web since 1996 and has not looked back. He started his career at Complinet, where he helped build a division for delivering software to clients like GE and Lehman Brothers, he started working in startups. For a short time, he was the CTO of Jobs Go Public, before stepping out on his own as th...
38m Feb 09, 2017
38m
HTE 315: Move Up the Food Chain | Ryan Vasso
My guest today is a former pet insurance salesman turned entrepreneur. In 2013, he started a company called BasedIn, an aggregator of small business local reviews. Almost a year and a half later, he and his team made the decision to end BasedIn, and evolve it into something better. He is now the founder of Reply Pro, software that enables companies to respond to reviews faster and easier — all ...
39m Feb 07, 2017
39m
HTE 314: Confidently Optimistic | Dr. Karen Litzy
My guest today is a doctor of physical therapy, confident optimist, and an entrepreneur. My guest spot the first seven years of her career working within the hospital system in New York before deciding to start a side hustle. She began taking physical therapy clients on the side and before she knew it, she had realized she wanted to start her own practice. She is now the founder of a concierge ...
40m Feb 06, 2017
40m
HTE 313: Learning As You Go | Nathan Resnick
My guest today is writer, traveler, and entrepreneur. His first real business was Yes Man Watches, a watch company he started while in college. Having brought dozens of products to market, and gaining years of experience in product sourcing, and eCommerce. He decided to combine his expertise into a business. My guest is now the founder of Sourcify, where he connects product creators with the wo...
33m Feb 02, 2017
33m
HTE 312: Build Your Own Inner Circle | 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 an interest in technology and entrepreneurship.  When she was 8 years old she submitted her first marketing plan, managed a non-profit event...
35m Jan 31, 2017
35m
HTE 311: Work From a Position of Strength | Craig Ballantyne
My guest today is an author, strength and conditioning coach, and an entrepreneur. He is the author of The perfect Day Formula and a Men's Health magazine contributor. He is also the creator of the popular workout program, Turbulence Training. You can read his daily wisdom at EarlyToRise.com Now, let’s hack… Craig Ballantyne.
40m Jan 30, 2017
40m
HTE 310: Asking For What You Want | Brad Hart
My guest today is a battle hardened investor, seasoned trader, advisor to top brands, and an entrepreneur. After spending a couple years as a real estate agent, my guest founded Hartwood Capital, a private investment fund focused on high risk, high profitability options trading. He is currently the founder of Make More Marbles, a productivity, personal development, and finance hub. Taking what ...
44m Jan 24, 2017
44m
HTE 309: Build Your Dream Network | Kelly Hoey
My guest today is a writer, networking expert, and an entrepreneur. Her career started in corporate law, and eventually transitioned to the management side of Big Law. A chance opportunity in 2009 to work with a visionary leader sparked her transition from earning a paycheck to seeking equity.My guest co-founded a startup accelerator, Women Innovate Mobile. She is also the author of the recentl...
43m Jan 23, 2017
43m
HTE 308: Accepting the Tension of Being an Entrepreneur | Lindsay Ostrom
My guest today is blogger, food enthusiast, and entrepreneur. Along with her husband and business partner, they have created the Pinch of Yum and Food Blogger Pro. My guest spent the last five years teaching elementary school by day and blogging about food by night. She always went back and forth about becoming a full-time blogger, but in June 2014, she officially made the jump to living this c...
29m Jan 19, 2017
29m
HTE 307: Hiring Coaches and Building Relationships | Mike Arce
My guest today is a marketing expert, sports fan, and entrepreneur. Just over seven years ago, he started a web development company called Loud Rumour. The business has since evolved into a marketing and lead generation company. During this conversation, we will hear the story of why during the past year they have niched down to become a marketing company exclusively for fitness studios to get ...
38m Jan 17, 2017
38m
HTE 306: Only Hire the Best | John Rampton
My guest today is a writer, connector, and an entrepreneur. My guest spent the past 8 years following his passions, honing his marketing skills, and building businesses for himself and others. After countless different positions at numerous companies, my he finally settled upon his latest company, Due, a global online payments company. Now, let’s hack… John Rampton.
33m Jan 16, 2017
33m
HTE 305: Transforming the Design Industry | Alec Lynch
My guest today is a former strategy consultant, parallel parking expert, and entrepreneur. After graduating from university, my best went to work as a senior consultant. While working across a variety of industries he could see a number of challenges and opportunities taking place within the traditional design industry. So he had an idea to solve these challenges. Once his co-founder had built ...
40m Jan 12, 2017
40m
HTE 304: [Going Deep] The Educator Entrepreneur | Danny Iny
My guest today is the founder of Mirasee (formerly Firepole Marketing), host of the Business Reimagined podcast, best-selling author of multiple books including Engagement from Scratch!, The Audience Revolution, and Teach and Grow Rich. In just a few short years, he’s grown the business to multiple seven figures in revenue and a team of 30+ people spread all over the world (on a mission to supp...
46m Jan 10, 2017
46m
HTE 303: How Bad Do You Want It? | Marvin Russell
My guest today is an ethical search engine optimizer, digital marketer, and an entrepreneur. He has launched two startups, had two successful exits, and is now working on startup number three, Checkli. Chuckle is a web and mobile app that helps people make and share private or public checklists. With over 275,000 checklists made and 490,000 tasks completed, Checkli is gaining traction fast due ...
47m Jan 09, 2017
47m
HTE 302: A Conversation About Taking Action | Rachael McCrary
My guest today is a fashion designer, intimate apparel expert, and an entrepreneur. As a true serial entrepreneur, my guest (as you will hear) has been hustling and starting businesses since she was a kid. After spending some time in the fashion industry, my guest founded Charmed, a junior undergarment company. Charmed was acquired by Maidenform in 2011. In 2014, my guest founded Jewel Toned, a...
31m Jan 05, 2017
31m
HTE 301: Entrepreneurship as a Creative Endeavour | Nick Ruffini
My guest today is a media producer, drummer, and entrepreneur. He grew up in the family restaurant business but had the urge to set out on his own. Since he was 17 years old, my guest made his way as a professional musician —recording and touring. In 2011, he went back into the restaurant business — this time with his brother. Then in 2013, he went back to music and started a podcast called Dru...
46m Jan 02, 2017
46m
HTE 300: How Leadpages Went From Audience to Product | Clay Collins
My guest today is a marketer, ever-evolving and learning CEO, and serial entrepreneur. At the age of 15, he raised $120,000 to start a software company. The company did ok, but eventually it fizzled and then failed. So, he went to college, dropped out, and eventually graduated. Then in 2013, he co-founded Leadpages. Today, Leadpages has well over 100 employees, and 10s of 1000s of customers. Th...
45m Dec 22, 2016
45m
HTE 299: The Ability to Hire Anyone | Breanden Beneschott
My guest today is a world traveler, Princeton Graduate, and an entrepreneur. As co-founder and COO, he has lived in 55 countries while building his most recent business Toptal, into a team of over 100 employees and well over $100 million in annual revenue. In this conversation, you will learn how Toptal has scaled as a fully-distributed team — no offices and as few meetings as possible. Now, le...
36m Dec 20, 2016
36m
HTE 298: The Power of Now | Natalie MacNeil
My guest today is an Emmy Award-Winning Media Producer, bestselling author, and an entrepreneur. During my guest’s final year of university, while traveling through Europe, she started a blog that accidentally became a business, and has since grown to become a full-blown media company called She Takes On the World. She has been featured in countless magazines, websites, and TV shows — including...
48m Dec 15, 2016
48m
HTE 297: Going All-In on Business and Life | Ameer Rosic
My guest today is a YouTuber, blockchain evangelist, and entrepreneur. He also loves to curse, so please be warned. He is the founder of BlockGeeks, an online hub covering the rapidly evolving world of blockchain technologies.  He is also a marketing strategist and has worked with global brands such as 5Minute Journal, Luxy Hair, and Q-Con. In addition to all of this, my guest can be found on Y...
35m Dec 13, 2016
35m
HTE 296: Making a Positive Dent in the World | Jeremy Choi
My guest today is a leader, golf addict, and an entrepreneur. He is currently the co-founder of The Athlete Activation System, which provide Strength Coaches and Personal Trainers with the system they can use to become more effective as trainers. He is also the co-founder of WPUP, a service to proactively manage, secure, and support your WordPress website. Now, let’s hack… Jeremy Choi.
36m Dec 09, 2016
36m
HTE 295: [Going Deep] The Entrepreneurial Myth | Michael Gerber
In today’s episode we are going deep into the Entrepreneurial Myth — AKA the E-Myth. My guest is an innovator, best-selling author of 29 books, and an entrepreneur. His book, The E-Myth, was named by The Wall Street Journal as the #1 business book of all time. It is also the most discussed book ever on Hack the Entrepreneur, and one of my personal favorites. The E-Myth just celebrated it’s 40 y...
42m Dec 05, 2016
42m
HTE 294: Stop Trying to Reinvent the Wheel | Mikita Mikado
My guest today is a former engineer, self-proclaimed terrible surfer, and an entrepreneur from Belarus living the American dream in San Francisco. He spent his formative years finding creative ways to make money and honing his sales skills. In 2007, he co-founded his first tech company Coding Staff. After running the company for four years, he and his co-founder sold the company to their employ...
32m Dec 01, 2016
32m
HTE 293: Finding a Path to Revenue | Justin Jackson
My guest today is a former Product Manager, consultant, writer, snowboarder, after of four, and an entrepreneur. As you will hear in this conversation, my guest was born with the entrepreneurial instinct and desire to create. And even though life tried to get in his way, he continued to write and create while working full-time and still having time to hang out with his family. He is a relentles...
53m Nov 28, 2016
53m
HTE 292: Focus on the Solution, Not the Problem | Scott Stiles
My guest today is a bold entrepreneur who has the goal of changing the world with his business. Although he considers doesn’t consider himself a ‘charity guy’, he is the co-founder and General Manager at Fair Employment Agency, a social enterprise focused on tackling the exploitation of foreign domestic workers, in Hong Kong. Together with his team, my guest has turned Fair Employment Agency fr...
37m Nov 24, 2016
37m
HTE 291 [Going Deep] Scaling a Media Company to 7-Figures | Nathan Chan
Three and a half years ago, my guest started a digital magazine while he still had a full-time job. Fast forward to today and my guest has turned his side hustle into a 7-figure media company called Foundr. In our current social media and business landscape, all successful businesses are now in the media business. This doesn’t mean we all produce podcasts or have YouTube channels, but it does m...
37m Nov 22, 2016
37m
HTE 290: The Value of Creating Redundancy in Your Business | Tom Corson-Knowles
My guest today is an author, entrepreneur, and digger of mines? He started his first business at age 13 in his father’s garage. By the time he graduated from business school at 22 years of age, my guest was earning a full-time income for his nutrition supplement business. He has since founded eBookPublishingSchool.com and has written and published over 20 books. Now, let’s hack… Tom Corson-Know...
36m Nov 17, 2016
36m
HTE 289: Create a Business Based on Service | Nicholas Kusmich
My guest today is a Facebook marketing strategist, a brilliant speaker, and an entrepreneur. He is the founder of The Accelerator Alliance and the creator of The Rapid Scaling Matrix. Under his personal brand, he runs a fully managed Facebook advertising agency with an insane waitlist to even become a client. I saw my guest speak at a conference a couple months ago and his stories, passion, and...
36m Nov 10, 2016
36m
HTE 288: A Better Way to View Risk | Sophia Bera
My guest today is an award-winning Certified Financial Planner, karaoke enthusiast, and an entrepreneur. After working in traditional financial planning firms since 2007 she quit her job at a NY start-up to start her own business. She is the founder of Gen Y Planning, where she works exclusively with young professionals across the country to help them navigate their finances. Unlike traditional...
42m Nov 08, 2016
42m
HTE 287: Collaboration Not Competition | Gabby Wallace
My guest today is a former teacher, a popular YouTuber, and an entrepreneur. Back in 2013, my guest started a side hustle teaching English language and pronunciation on YouTube. Since then, she has quit her job and moved to New Your city to run Go Natural English full-time. With 233,000 YouTube subscribers, my guest is building out a product line to satisfy the needs of her rapidly growing cust...
34m Nov 03, 2016
34m
HTE 286: The Gap is the Gift | Todd Tresidder
My guest today a former investment hedge fund manager, financial educator, and a serial entrepreneur. He spent the first 12 years of his career as a portfolio manager at a hedge fund. He started with nothing, and twelve years later at the age of 35, he retired as a self-made millionaire. A year later, he started FinancialMentor.com, a money coaching service. Over the past 18 years, my guest has...
40m Oct 31, 2016
40m
HTE 285: How to Avoid 10 Years of Failure | Josh Steimle
My guest today is an author, world traveler, journalist, and an entrepreneur. He is the founder of MWI, a digital marketing firm with offices in Hong Kong, Singapore, China, and the United States. He has written over 200 articles for publications like Forbes, Inc, Mashable, TechCrunch, Entrepreneur, and Time, and is the author of Chief Marketing Officers at Work. Now, let’s hack… Josh Steimle.
35m Oct 27, 2016
35m
HTE 284: Harnessing a Spirit of Curiosity | Nathan Rose
My guest today is a digital nomad, author, and entrepreneur. He spent the formative years of his career working as an investment banking analyst, until catching the entrepreneurial bug and going out on his own. Using skills and contacts from his banking days, my guest is now the founder of Assemble Advisory, an equity crowdfunding company that has already helped entrepreneurs raise over $11 mil...
30m Oct 25, 2016
30m
HTE 283: The G.A.S. Method | Oli Gardner
Today’s guest is a brilliant entrepreneur who has seen more landing pages than anyone on the planet — in fact, he looks at 1,000 pages per week. He is co-founder of Unbounce, a company that allows marketers to build, publish and A/B test landing pages without an IT department or knowledge of HTML. Prior to starting Unbounce, he honed his branding skills as Creative Director at Bodog, an online ...
35m Oct 24, 2016
35m
HTE 282: Becoming a Software Entrepreneur | Hani Mourra
My guest today is a product creator and software entrepreneur who is pushing his way to full-time entrepreneurship. His day job is in software management, but he has spent the past three years working morning, nights, and weekends to build his own business. About 12 months ago, he pulled his work week back to four days per week, to give him a full day to focus on growing his business. He is the...
42m Oct 20, 2016
42m
HTE 281: The Single (Sad But True) Step to Winning in Business | Ruben Gamez
My guest for today is a software developer that worked hard to slowly become an entrepreneur. He spent several years working as a manager for a billion dollar payroll company. And in his spare time he played around with some ideas. Early 2009 he creates his first online product that fails to garner any attention or traffic. so back to the drawing board he went two more times before hitting onto...
36m Oct 17, 2016
36m
HTE 280: The Work Anywhere Lifestyle | Benjamin Pyle
My guest today is a lifestyle entrepreneur and the other half of the co-founding team behind Proofread Anywhere and The Work Anywhere Life. Several episodes ago, I had the pleasure of interviewing Caitlyn Pyle and we had a deep conversation into her views of entrepreneurship and product creation. Today, we are speaking to her husband and co-founder, a super smart entrepreneur himself, yet as we...
34m Oct 13, 2016
34m
HTE 279: Learn How to Sell Your Product (Before You Build It) | Perry Oostdam
My guest today is a tech-loving entrepreneur based in Amsterdam. He spent four years as the co-founder of GeoRun, a mobile activation software company for iOs and Android games. Today he is the co-founder of Recruitee, a SaaS recruiting platform. With offices in The Netherlands and Poland, they have spent the past two years taking over the European hiring market and are gearing up to take over ...
36m Oct 10, 2016
36m
HTE 278: The Power of Imperfect Action | Mike Kawula
My guest has moved from franchise owner, to Chief Marketing Officer, to entrepreneur. After spending nearly a decade in the cleaning business, my guest made the move into digital marketing with his venture Self-Employed King, a digital marketing agency for small businesses. Today, he has successfully exited two businesses and is now building a great new company as founder and CEO of Social Quan...
36m Oct 06, 2016
36m
HTE 277: The Beautiful Brokenness of Entrepreneurs | Cole Hatter
My guest today is an investor, author, speaker, and entrepreneur. If there is such a thing as being born an entrepreneur, then my guest today fits this description. Starting his first mini-venture when he was just eight years old and continuing on throughout his teens. He jumped headfirst into the real estate business, buying and selling real estate at a furious pace — then the crash hit and he...
36m Oct 04, 2016
36m
HTE 276: Be Obsessed or Be Average | Grant Cardone
My guest today is a New York Times bestselling author, international speaker, and obsessive entrepreneur. He currently owns five massively successful companies, including a real estate company with over $400 million in real estate. He is also the founder of Cardone Acquisitions and Cardone Enterprises. He is the author of seven books. His current, very-soon-to-be-released book called Be Obsesse...
43m Oct 03, 2016
43m
HTE 275: The Discipline of Entrepreneurship | Kristina Halvorson
My guest today is recognized as an unquestionable authority in the content strategy space, after having written her seminal article, The Discipline of Content Strategy. She is also one of the coolest, most passionate and friendly people that you could ever hope to meet. Although we don’t avoid content strategy explicitly in this conversation, we are here to talk about her as an entrepreneur. My...
38m Sep 30, 2016
38m
HTE 274: Accepting the Tension of Being an Entrepreneur | Lindsay Ostrom
My guest today is blogger, food enthusiast, and entrepreneur. Along with her husband and business partner, they have created the Pinch of Yum and Food Blogger Pro. My guest spent the last five years teaching elementary school by day and blogging about food by night. She always went back and forth about becoming a full-time blogger, but in June 2014, she officially made the jump to living this c...
29m Sep 29, 2016
29m
HTE 273: Beware of The Opportunity Costs | Justin Cooke
My guest today is a digital nomad — spending most of his time between Los Angeles, Manila, Bangkok, and Saigon — plus, he is a very smart entrepreneur. After starting, growing, and selling several businesses since 2010, my guest co-founded Empire Flippers in March 2013. Empire Flippers has helped people buy and sell over $10 million dollars worth of online businesses. In 2016, they placed #161 ...
34m Sep 27, 2016
34m