Jason Cohen Shows Us Why He Really Is “A Smart Bear” & Has Made Millions Without Debt or VC

My day is great with I get to sit down with cool down to earth geniuses like Jason Cohen. After you watch this interview, you will begin to be amazed at Jason’s metacognition skills and begin to clearly see how he was able to be a single founder and make millions without debt or VC.

Jason previously founded Smart Bear Software and co-founded ITWatchdogs, both of which were bootstrapped to profitability, grew to millions in revenue, and were sold.

Jason Cohen is a mentor at Capital Factory (like TechStars or Y-Combinator in Austin) and…

Juan Calle and Lori Anne Wardi Discuss Creating One of the Most Successful Domain Registries in Internet History

Juan Diego Calle, a serial entrepreneur, is the founder and CEO of .CO Internet S.A.S, the company that runs the .CO top level domain. Under Juan’s leadership, .CO was launched internationally in July of 2010, and has quickly become one of the most successful domain extensions in history, with more than 1 million domain names registered by people and companies in 200 countries worldwide.

At the age of 20, Juan co-founded TeRespondo.com, the largest pay-per-click network in (more…)

Over 5 Million Downloads, 2.4 Million Monthly Active Users, & a Top 5 Photo App by Ching-Mei Chen & the Team

Former Economist to current PicCollage co-founder, Ching-Mei Chen, not only learned quickly how to be an entrepreneur but how to be a successful entrepreneur.

I was truly thrilled to sit down and discuss her teams current success with  their current popular photo app PicCollage. PicCollage is not only free, but it is a top 5 iPhone/iPad photo app in the US and top 10 photo app in over 20 countries, that lets you combine and clip photos to create collages to share with your family and friends by email,…

Nick Kellet, Former Party of the Year Game Winner Talks about His Current Venture, List.ly

Meet the inventor of GiftTRAP, Party Game of the Year in the United States, Germany, and France. Nick is also the former VP, New Markets at Business Objects, Founder of Next Action Technology, creator of AnswerSets, British-born, Canadian-adopted family-guy. Ever the hustler and adventurer, Nick has decided to enter the tech startup game as Co-Founder of their new list social curation tool List.ly. The Next Web says “List.ly makes curating lists of things simple and interactive for publishers”. List.ly describes themselves as: (more…)

Sanjay Parekh, Founder Startup Riot Raises $1.2 Million and Then Turns Big Profits!!!!!

Tech Hustler Sanjay Parekh is perfect example of how to be an entrepreneur, as well as a mega successful entrepreneur! Sanjay is the founder of Startup Riot, a day-long conference and career fair event held in multiple cities, and a co-founding partner of Shotput Ventures, a seed stage investment firm. So yea just like we said, a successful entrepreneur of the tech and entrepreneur community!

Previously Sanjay was the founding CEO of Digital Envoy and the inventor of the company’s patented NetAcuity IP intelligence technology. Digital Envoy was acquired by Landmark Communications in June…

Jerry Reynolds Discusses Founding and Building Rentul.com, An Upscale Travel Marketplace

Tech Hustler Jerry Reynolds is the founder of Konaa, Rentul, Resort Watchers and One Human Project, developer, green tea loving, clever creator of things, and microfinance loving smile maker. This tech hustler promises to give you a real look into the life as an entrepreneur.

Tech Hustler Jerry Reynolds has created the newly and hyped Konaa Social Marketplace. Konaa is a social discovery marketplace that bridges social communication, e-commerce and distribution. For many businesses rectifying social media and productivity is a great challenge. Konaa creates marketplaces for people who make products or…

Neil Patel Discusses Hustlin’ Cable Boxes Before Co-Founding CrazyEgg and Kissmetrics

Tech Huslters was honored that serial entrepreneur Neil Patel, would stop by and show us how to be a entrepreneur. Tech Huslter Neil Patel is the co-founder of 2 internet companies: Crazy Egg, and KISSmetrics. Through these 2 companies he has helped large corporations such as AOL, General Motors, Hewlett-Packard and Viacom make more money from the web. By the age of 21 not only was Neil named a top 100 blogger by Technorati, but he was also one of the top influencers on the web according…

Guillaume Decugis Sells Musiwave to Microsoft for $120 Million Before Founding Scoop.it

Tech Hustler Guillaume Decugis previous company, Musiwave, was sold for $120 million in 2006 and was the leading Mobile Music Service Provider in Europe. Musiwave is now a Microsoft company. Guillaume also launched Goojet, a mobile social media which topped 1m downloads in France at the end of 2010. Currently he is the CEO & Co-Founder of Scoop.it, the publishing-by-curation platform that makes it easy to create an online magazine on your favorite topic.

Scoop.it empowers people and brands…

Gig City Chattanooga, the New City of Startup Hustlin | Infographic

During this year’s SXSW festival in Austin, Texas, Eric and I got the chance to meet some new hustlers from around the world. One particular group we had the pleasure of spending time with and hearing about the ability to hustle was the team from Chattanooga, Tennessee. These guys are great. They’ve got a solid university behind them, a growing group of entrepreneurs wanting to be noticed. Guys, you’ve been noticed! Can’t wait to see all the exciting projects and startup to come out of this area.

Here’s a little infographic talking about…

Diego Saez-Gil, InBed.Me Discusses Creating the First Social Booking Site for Hostels…

About Co-Founder Diego Saez-Gil

As Co-founder & CEO, Diego is responsible for creating the vision and product strategy for the company. He leads the Business Development and Team Building efforts of inbed.me. Diego holds a Masters Degree in Management from Barcelona’s LaSalle Business School and a BS in Business from Universidad de Tucumán (Arg.). Before starting inbed.me, Diego co-founded Off Track Planet, the ultimate Backpacker’s Online Guide to Travel, growing a community of more 120,000 travelers from around the world. In a previous life he was a consultant for PwC and Altran. Originally from…

Become a Startup Competition Winner | Infographic

As hustlers we’re always going to events, building relations, and participating in competitions to better our skills. The famous startup competition, Startup Weekend, is always touring around the globe in different locations bringing together fellow entrepurners, marketers, and hustlers. All together in one location teams are given the opportunity to build something amazing in 54 hours. Some of the hottest companies in tech were born during these events – such as Zaarly and Mingly. What was their secret?

With any competition there’s always some knowledge that can give you…

Matt O’Leary, Co-Founder of Shopcastr Shows the Art of Making a Pivot

Learn the art of making a pivot and launching a new startup from the Lean Startup advocate, Matt O’Leary. Matt is the hustling UI/UX Designer and the co-founder of the awesome Shopcastr. His previous startup Hipsell connected buyers and sellers on a hyperlocal level. With Hipsell you had the ability to quickly take pictures of items on your phone, and then they would instantly be up for sale on the web within 30 seconds, with an easy to use mobile application. Since Hipsell relied a lot on cross-posting to…

Creating a Pitch Deck | Startup Resources

If you’ve ever had to create a pitch deck before, you know there’s tons of examples and how-tos around the Internet. Today the Los Angeles based accelerator, Amplify, launched a great tutorial detailing the process of creating a solid pitch deck. Of the examples out there, this one in particular rates high on my scale as an entrepreneur.  The deck is easy to follow and is directed towards those of early stage startups. However, that doesn’t mean anyone can’t learn from it.

Amplify makes sure to walk you through…