422: HTE 422: Entrepreneurship is Part Nature and Part Nurture | Ryan Simonetti
Get ONE MONTH FREE from Convertkit. Click: https://hacktheentrepreneur.com/convert Turn Your Ideas Into Pages with Thrive. Go to: https://hacktheentrepreneur.com/thrive My guest today began his career in finance -- spending a year at Lehman Brothers Real Estate Group before moving onto become Vice President at Gramercy Capital. What seemed as a career most people would dream of, became the jump...
33m May 13, 2018
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421: HTE 421: Autism and Entrepreneurship | Joel Biel
To redeem your free $100 LinkedIn ad credit, go to https://LinkedIn.com/hack. Get your 5-photo free trial right now, go to http://Twenty20.com/hack I was introduced to my guest today way back in 1998 or 1999. Just prior to that, in 1996, he had started a part-time mail order business out of his bedroom in Cleveland, Ohio -- this mail order business eventually became Microcosm Publishing an inde...
54m May 07, 2018
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420: HTE 420: How to Get From Idea to Offer | Harry Duran
Grab our sponsor offers: Take back your Internet privacy TODAY and find out how you can get 3 months free, go to ExpressVPN.com/hack Go to WordPress.com/hacK for 15-percent off a brand new website My guest today is a friend of mine who is building an impressive business -- and he got started while he was still fully employed. A few years ago we met at a conference. At the time, he was an Associ...
39m Apr 30, 2018
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419: HTE 419: Make Things Happen | Greg Mercer
On today's episode our sponsor Twenty20 is offering a 5-photo free trial. To start yours right now, go to Twenty20.com/hack At 22 years of age, due to pressure, uncertainty, and not knowing what else to do, my guest got a real job as a corporate civil engineer. It was during this time that he was introduced to to potential of selling on Amazon -- and in 2013 he made his first sale. From there h...
35m Apr 26, 2018
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HTE 418: Find the Few Things That Will 10x Your Business | Joe Kashurba
Welcome Hack the Entrepreneur listeners! To take advantage of the 15% discount you heard about on the show, use the promo code PODCAST when you check out. My guest today started a web design business in high school and grew it into an digital agency with clients around the world. In this conversation, we are going to dive into how he went from charging $300 to $30,000 for designing and developi...
36m Apr 19, 2018
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HTE 417: How to Put Together the Pieces of a Business | Ali Boone
If you're looking to positively inspire your audience on social media or on your blog, you'll want to use engaging, fresh photos that are unique. Visit Twenty20.com/hack today for your 5-photo free trial. Convertkit: If you're ready to get started, for as little as $29/month, visit HacktheEntrepreneur.com/convert today and get your first month free. My guest today is a former aeronautical engin...
31m Apr 16, 2018
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HTE 416: Turning a Forum into a Thriving Business | Patrick Curtis
My guest today spent the first two years out of college in investment banking and four years in private equity. During this time he lanched called WallstreetOasis.com, a forum-based site for investment bankers and those who wanted to become investment bankers -- this was in 2006. He spent the first few years running the site on the side, but in 2008 he went full-time into Wallstreet Oasis. Toda...
39m Apr 09, 2018
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HTE 415: 10x Marketing Funnel | Garrett Moon
My guest is the co-founder and CEO of CoSchedule where he leads the amazing team that is building the worlds #1 marketing calendar. CoSchedule began in 2013 as an idea on a flight between Atlanta and North Dakota. Less than a year an a half later, they had received $500k in seed funding and acquired their first 5,000 customers. This growth seems staggering until you hear my guest talk about his...
42m Apr 01, 2018
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HTE 414: Focus on One Thing Only | Ezra Firestone
My guest today is the founder and CEO of Smart Marketer. In the past six years, they have grown to a team of 15 and he his thought by many to be the leading eCommerce expert in the world. He is also the co-founder and CMO of Boom!, the world's first pro-age cosmetic line for every generation. In addition to this, he is the founder of Zipify, a Shopify app-creation company. Now, let's hack... Ez...
34m Mar 26, 2018
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HTE 413: Filling Your Funnel with Facebook | Tamara Baranova
My guest today spent the early part of her career as a computer programmer working -- but she felt like she never quite fit into the corporate life. In 2007, after stumbling across the idea of working as a virtual assistant, she decided to become a VA. After six months of working full-time and also running her VA business, she took the leap and quit her day job. Then in 2014, she transitioned i...
42m Mar 22, 2018
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HTE 412: Revolutionize Your Business (From Ordinary to Exceptional) | Brian Scudamore
Brian Scudamore of O2E Brands is anything but ordinary. He dropped out of high school and talked his way into college only to drop out again. Finally, Brian Scudamore decided to take his last $700 and start 1-800-GOT-JUNK. Having built this company into a multi-million dollar home services empire, he is now passionate about empowering other small business owners to take the lead in their own c...
32m Mar 19, 2018
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HTE 411: Understanding Business as One Big Puzzle | PJ Taei
PJ Taei is forward-thinking and confident tech entrepreneur. After spending a couple years as a network technician before ventured out on his own and started a web hosting company. Over the next 14 years, he grew WebNet Hosting until it was acquired in 2016. Then he started Uscreen, a video platform that enables content owners to launch their own streaming service. They now have over 1000 custo...
35m Mar 12, 2018
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HTE 410: [Going Deep]The Heart to Start | David Kadavy
If you ever felt apprehension when getting started putting your thoughts and ideas out into the world, then this conversation is for you. Today's guest was originally on the show back in 2014 when we discussed entrepreneurship as an artistic process. Since that interview, he has moved from Chicago to Medellin, Colombia, as he goes all-in on the artistic side of entrepreneurship. In this convers...
48m Mar 08, 2018
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HTE 409: Zero to $43k MRR in Seven Months | Jake Jorgovan
Seven months ago, Jake Jorgovan was in the unenviable position that many of us have found ourselves in at one point or another -- lots of ideas that seemed great at the start and an equal number that had to be shutdown for one reason or another. He'd had a lot of success with consulting over the years, but he wanted to build something bigger. Then he came up with another big idea and on July 15...
46m Mar 05, 2018
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HTE 407: Rise of the Youpreneur | Chris Ducker
Today we are going deep with a friend of mine, Chris Ducker, and his brand new book Rise of the Youpreneur. I first met Chris four years ago in the Philippines, and a masterminding session at that time was the inception point for me starting Hack the Entrepreneur. Chris' new book Rise of the Youpreneur: The Definitive Guide to Becoming the Go-To Leader in Your Industry and Building a Future-Pro...
40m Feb 26, 2018
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HTE 406: Why You Should Always Compare Down, Not Up | Adam Witty
Adam Witty is an author, speaker, and publishing entrepreneur. Back in 2005, from a spare bedroom in his house he started Advantage Media Group. Over the past 12 years, Advantage has grown from that bedroom to an international publishing company that has helped over 1,000 busy professionals publish their books. In 2016, Advantage launched a historic partnership with Forbes, to create ForbesBook...
40m Feb 22, 2018
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HTE 405: Utilizing the Power of Your Personal Network | Mike Kafka
Mike Kafka is a quarterback in the NFL, playing last season for the Minnesota Vikings and is currently a free-agent. He is enrolled at the university of Miami School of Business and is an entrepreneur to watch out for. Not one to take it easy in the off-season, my guest founded and oversees operations, product development, marketing and sales of Roo Outdoor, a lifestyle outdoor apparel company....
34m Feb 15, 2018
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HTE 404: How to Reprogram Your Mindset | Troy Dean
Troy Dean is former voice over artist, marketer, and online entrepreneur. After spending nine years as a WordPress plugin developer and consultant, he noticed a gap in the WordPress market, and he aimed to fill it. In 2013, he co-founded WP Elevation, which has since become the world's largest business accelerator devoted to helping WordPress consultants build their businesses. From a simple id...
39m Feb 12, 2018
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HTE 403: Stop Trying to Be Everywhere | Matt Ruedlinger
He is the founder and CEO of Triple R Marketing, where him and his team help clients become leaders in their industries, by utilizing his 20 plus years experience in sales and marketing. In this conversation we discuss understanding the true value of relationships, why windshields are larger than rear view mirrors, and why your business doesn't nee to be everywhere. Now, let's hack... Matt Rued...
40m Feb 08, 2018
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HTE 402: Awareness is the Key to Success | Diana Dyer
Diana Dyer is an independent financial advisor and founder of Triumph Capital. Diana has been in the financial services industry for nearly twelve years and she have been recognized as one of the top 30 financial advisors in Canada for five consecutive years. Triumph Capital is a financial planning and advisory firm created to give young professionals access to unbiased, independent, and access...
33m Feb 05, 2018
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HTE 408: Roadmap to Revenue | Kristen Zhivago
Kristen Zhivago started her first business with her husband in 1979. Since then she hasn't rested. In fact, she spent nearly 35 years as a Revenue Coach for hundreds and hundreds of companies. During the past four years, she has co-founded Cloud Potential and Cloud Wise Academy, both of which she has now parted ways from. She is currently the founder of Zhivago Partners, a digital marketing man...
38m Feb 01, 2018
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HTE 401: How to Get What You Want From Any Meeting | Warren Hogarth
Warren Hogarth started out with a PhD in chemical engineering and moved onto receiving his MBA from Harvard Business School. Then in 2008, he became a partner at the #1 VC firm in the world, Sequoia Capital, where he spent the next eight years as lead investor and a board member for billion dollar companies. And then he walked away from it. He is now the co-founder and CEO of Empower, an app th...
33m Feb 01, 2018
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HTE 400: Business is a Team Effort | Suuchi Ramesh
Suuchi Ramesh is a former engineer and analytics consultant turned brilliant entrepreneur building an innovative company in a traditionally slow-moving industry. Suuchi is the founder of Suuchi Inc, a design & manufacturing partner for the most innovative, forward-thinking American fashion and apparel brands and Fortune 1000 companies. In addition to this, Suuchi Inc is proudly makes everything...
31m Jan 29, 2018
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HTE 399: Working From Project to Project | Kevin Kelly
Kevin Kelly has been writing on the Internet since 1982 and Tim Ferris calls him the Most Interesting Man in the World. He has spent the past 40+ years living project to project, accomplishing some truly impressive feats in the process without ever attending college or university. From 1984 to 1990, Kevin Kelly was the publisher and editor of the Whole Earth Review. In 1993 he co-founded Wired ...
47m Jan 25, 2018
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HTE 398: Turn Hurdles into Opportunities | Cavan Klinsky
Cavan Klinsky is an entrepreneur who loves programming, sports, business, and music. When he’s not working on his business, he is dreaming up project ideas, picking up heavy things, and eating sushi. When he was 14 years old he started CJK Web Design where he spent almost seven years building sites for local businesses and did pro bono work for charities. He accomplished all this while in high ...
31m Jan 22, 2018
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HTE 397: Start with One Thing Every Day | Stephynie Malik
Stephynie Malik is an active listener, strategist, and entrepreneur. For the past 16 years, she has been the founder of Malik Co, a management consulting firm working with Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 companies. During a 16 year tenure building her company many things have changed, including herself and her goals. So this past November, my guest stepped down as leader Malik Co, and started a bra...
42m Jan 18, 2018
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HTE 396: Your Business. Your Rules | Michelle Green
Michelle Green is a chef, cake decorator, super connector, and relentless entrepreneur. She began decorating cakes at 16 years old and spent countless years honing her skills. Then in 2004, she started her own bakery called Three Sweeties. During the next 10 years, she grew her business, began teaching and mentoring others, and eventually sold her bakery to move full-time into teaching and blog...
42m Jan 15, 2018
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HTE 395: Doing What Seems Impossible | Tara Gentile
Tara Gentile is a writer, community builder, and a brilliant entrepreneur. Back in 2008, an aggravating incident at work pushed her to decide to leave the job market and start building her own vision and business. Tara got her start with founding the premier website for promoting arts & crafts in Pennsylvania before moving on to creating an online publication called Scoutie Girl. For the past f...
41m Jan 11, 2018
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HTE 394: Create a New Future | Aviv Shahar
Aviv Shahar is an author, former air force pilot, and an entrepreneur. He has spent the past 17 years building his consulting business by helping senior executives at some of the world’s largest companies. The most impressive thing about his business is that 98% of his new client acquisition is based on referrals from previous clients — and yes, we dive into how he accomplishes this. He is also...
46m Jan 08, 2018
46m
HTE 393: How to Become Bulletproof | Dave Asprey
Dave Asprey is a biohacker, author, nutritionist, Bulletproof Executive, and entrepreneur. He had some early adventures in internet commerce going way back to 1994. But he is most known as the founder of Bulletproof Executive, as well as the creator of Bulletproof Coffee and the Bulletproof Diet. He began blogging at BulletproofExec.com in early 2010 while holding an executive position at Trend...
45m Jan 04, 2018
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HTE 392: Finding Your Story Engine | Kyle Gray
Kyle Gray is a writer and entrepreneur who helps businesses create a powerful storyline that drives sales, growth, and engagement. He has helped hundreds of startups and small businesses create scalable content marketing strategies. His book The Story Engine outlines his process for creating content that drives sales. He is currently the founder of The Story Engine, a productized business based...
43m Dec 28, 2017
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HTE 391: Working in Systems and Processes | Syed Balkhi
Syed Balkhi is one of the hardest working, smartest, and most successful entrepreneurs I have had the pleasure of speaking to. He was born in Pakistan and immigrated to the United States at the age of 12. Without a social life due to his lack of English skills, he turned to the Internet and entrepreneurship. Today, at 25 years old, Syed Balkhi is an award-winning entrepreneur and has been recog...
38m Dec 21, 2017
38m
HTE 390: Don’t Talk About it, Do it | Jaimee Newberry
Visit HacktheEntrepreneur.com for full show notes, links, and special offers. My guest today is a professional experimenter, speaker, and entrepreneur. After a couple years working at Zappos and some major life circumstances, my guest suffered a nasty spell of life burnout back in 2012 and decided to redesign her life from the ground up. She spent the next year speaking around the world, podcas...
45m Dec 18, 2017
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HTE 389: The True Value of Asking Why | Mark Sears
My guest today is a CEO, world traveler, and social entrepreneur. He is the founder of CloudFactory. Back in 2008 he and his wife went to Nepal for a two-week vacation — they ended up staying for six years. From training three young Nepali developers around one iMac, he has started and grown CloudFactory into 175 full-time staff and 2500+ part-time cloud workers on three continents. In this con...
43m Dec 14, 2017
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HTE 388: Thinking Like an Entrepreneur | Emma Johnson
Emma Johnson is a former journalist, digital entrepreneur, and author of her brand new book — The Kick-Ass Single Mom. After 16 years of freelance writing, my she decided it was time to start blogging and voicing her thoughts and opinions. After three years of doing this on the side, she became the full-time blogger and entrepreneur behind WealthySingleMom.com. This is a great conversation abou...
38m Dec 11, 2017
38m
HTE 387: Get Your Agreements in Writing | Bobby Klinck
My guest today is Bobby Klinck, a Harvard educated lawyer turned online entrepreneur. After spending more than eight years working in large law firms and nearly three years as a criminal prosecutor for the United States Attorney’s Office, he decided that he could no longer work for someone else. This led to the formation of his own law firm Klinck LLC and begin self-identifying as an online ent...
47m Dec 07, 2017
47m
HTE 386: How to Create Compelling Reasons to Buy | Sharon Savariego
My guest today is the former business development manager of uTest, community advocate, and serial social entrepreneur. Back in 2014, she came up with the idea to build a platform to empower Community Managers around the world. Needing help with the tech side of things, she began the quest for a tech co-founder, which she found and they began planning, raising money, and building. Today, Mobili...
40m Dec 04, 2017
40m
HTE 385: Work to Fix a Problem | Mike Trotzke
Mike Trotzke is tech investor, advisor, and entrepreneur. He is co-founder and CEO of Cheddar, a billing platform built for developers. Since founding Cheddar in 2009, they have grown organically, and as of the summer of 2017, they’ve received their first funding round of $1.2 million. In this conversation, we discuss the power of partnerships, problem-solving as a skill set, and using persiste...
39m Nov 30, 2017
39m
HTE 384: Faster Than Normal | Peter Shankman
My guest today has jumped out of hundreds of planes, is an Ironman triathlete, and an entrepreneur. He started his career at America Online as a Senior News Editor. He helped to found the AOL Newsroom and spearheaded coverage of the Democratic and Republican 1996 conventions. He then started a PR firm called The Geek Factory. He then became the creator of Help a Reporter Out ("HARO"), a service...
41m Nov 27, 2017
41m
HTE 383: Hustle Your Face Off | Ryan Urban
My guest today is a CEO, he’s insanely focused, and is a brilliant entrepreneur. He started his career working for some fast-growing startups — in a few years he went from BrickHouse Security, BabyAge, and onto Bonobos. Almost five years ago, he co-founded BounceX and has scaled at an incredible pace to now running a team of 270 people. This is a fascinating conversation about how to hustle and...
37m Nov 23, 2017
37m
HTE 382: Every Team Needs a Leader | Jack Welde
My guest today is a serial entrepreneur, product evangelist, and combat-decorated Air Force pilot. He started his career in the Air Force before moving into software and entrepreneurship back in the ‘90s, when he co-founded Trio Development, which was acquired by Apple. He is now the co-founder and CEO of Smartling, a translation software and service company helping ambitious brands access more...
43m Nov 21, 2017
43m
HTE 381: Mastering the Art of Delegation | Mike Faith
My guest today is Mike Faith of Headsets.com, which has over 943,722 customers. My guest started Headsets.com in 1997 when he couldn't find a supplier with a good selection of headsets, fast shipping, or good product support. My guest says he is fanatic about giving customer love; so much so that every package the company ships includes a Tootsie Roll. He is also the Founder of www.Reservedinne...
34m Nov 17, 2017
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HTE 380: Be Lazy. Be Curious. Be Often | Michael Bungay Stanier
Today’s guest left Australia 25 years ago to become a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University. Today, he lives in Canada and is the founder and senior partner at Box of Crayons, a company that helps organizations do less good work and more great work. What started 15 years ago as a one-person show, has grown into a thriving team of 20+ people seeing exponential growth. He’s also the author of sever...
40m Nov 13, 2017
40m
HTE 379: From Blogging to International Consulting | Heather Armstrong
My guest today is a speaker, a bestselling and award-winning writer, brand consultant, and an entrepreneur. She became an answer to a Trivial Pursuit and Jeopardy question after being fired from her job as a web designer for blogging stories involving her colleagues. My guest is now the Founder of and professional blogger at Dooce. She has been a part of the internet writing community for 14 y...
33m Nov 09, 2017
33m
HTE 378: Build Your Wings on the Way Down | Karen Hoskin
After spending the first 15 years as a graphic designer and growing her own agency, today’s guest decided it was time for a challenge — and a change. Twenty years after falling in love with rum during a trip to India, she and her husband decided to see if they could turn that love of rum into a business. At this moment, Montanya Distillers was born. Flash forward eight years and Montanya produc...
39m Nov 06, 2017
39m
HTE 377: Risk is Not an Essential Part of Entrepreneurship | Garrett Gunderson
Garrett Gunderson is an author, entrepreneur, and continuous debunker of financial myths. Garrett is the founder and Chief Wealth Architect at The Wealth Factory, which empowers its members to build sustainable wealth through financial efficiency and organization leading to clarity, peace of mind and financial confidence. In this conversation, we talk about Killing Sacred Cows, adding value and...
43m Nov 02, 2017
43m
HTE 376: How to Find Your Story | Alistair Clay
My guest today is a former national journalist turned PR guy and a story obsessive entrepreneur. Back in 2010, along with his wife, they started Arc Seven Communications, a PR agency focused on the health care industry. With their agency running smoothly, he wanted to help entrepreneurs and startups tell their story. So they created Class:PR to democratize PR and help businesses tell their stor...
47m Oct 26, 2017
47m
HTE 375: What Type of Business Owner Are You? | Josh Haynam
My guest today started his current business while still in college, and after struggling for three years with hardly any growth his determination is finally paying off. He is the co-founder of Interact quiz builder. This year alone, it looks like the sacrifices required to build a business are paying off, as they have seen a 300% jump in growth and are anticipating 500% by the end of the year. ...
42m Oct 23, 2017
42m
HTE 374: Doing Things Before You Are Ready | Allie Siarto
  In 2009, my guest co-founded and was Director of Analytics at Loudpixel, a successful social analytics company. After many successful years, she realized it wasn’t quite what she wanted to be doing, so she made a change. Today my guest is an independent wedding and lifestyle photographer. In a market that most people struggle to start a business in, my guest has managed to build a business to...
36m Oct 20, 2017
36m
HTE 373: Sell First and Scale Later | Nathan Barry
https://hacktheentrepreneur.com/convert My guest today is an author, teacher, and the founder of Convertkit. In 2013, he launched Convertkit, email marketing to professional bloggers. He spent a couple years trying to get traction and dealing with friends telling him to give up and try another product. Convert kit now has serious traction with a team of 28 fully distributed employees and over $...
41m Oct 09, 2017
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