Andreea is a serial entrepreneur. In 2007 she founded the eco-friendly inspirational t-shirt company Tees for Change (which she later sold), in 2011 she started helping other entrepreneurs dream big and launch & grow their product businesses at Launch Grow Joy, and in 2013 she founded Soaps to Live By.
Natalie Sisson left an 8-year career in corporate marketing, communications and brand management for the vast uncertainty of starting a business. It wasn't easy, as you'll learn in this founders story session with Natalie. She shares how dark things got (at one point being hours from not being able to pay the rent) and what finally clicked to make her current life and business possible.
Choosing a topic for your business (or blog, podcast, platform, etc.) is an incredibly important decision. A great topic can make your life fantastically easy. People will naturally identify with your mission and help share your message. The right topic will make you come alive and fall in love with your business and customers.
Jenny Blake is best known for her blog and book Life After College, which helps 20-somethings do bold things and find direction during a critical phase of life. But Jenny is much more than the author of Life After College. She's a highly paid speaker, a career coach and an NYC yoga instructor. Jenny gave up a highly visible career at Google to do her own thing and follow a lifelong dream of leading and speaking.
Website design is more important now than ever before. It can make you stand out amidst the noise and create a powerful first impression. However, most founders don’t know how to do it or where to start. In fact, since “good design” is so hard to define, design can be a huge cause of wasted money, time and energy.
Steve Kamb is the founder of Nerd Fitness, a massively successful online community which helps desk jockeys, nerds, and average Joes level up their lives. In this founder story Steve shares how he got started, calling out the most important pieces of his journey from depressed corporate drone to the vibrant, charming and nerdy independent entrepreneur he is today.
Sahil Lavingia is the founder of Gumroad, a start-up based in San Francisco that is making accepting payments as simple and easy as possible. (Watch out Paypal.) In this founder story find out why he left Pinterest (when he was employee #2) right when it was gaining popularity to start Gumroad.
Betsy and Warren Talbot are a recovering 40-something Type-A couple who spent their 20s and 30s climbing the corporate ladder only to realize it wasn't the ladder they wanted to be climbing. In October, 2010, just shy of their 40th birthdays, the couple sold everything they owned and left their lives behind to see the world. They're still traveling today.
It's one of the most common questions we hear from entrepreneurs: how do I get more stuff done? Why do I keep procrastinating!? Productivity is about more than just how you organize your sticky notes (though, let’s be honest, that is pretty important) and in this course Chase shares the essentials of productivity specifically for online business builders.
Jason is the founder of a bunch of online businesses. Most of them he’s sold. All of them have been small and fun. His most recent business is Paleo Plan, which we talk a lot about in this interview because it’s such a great example of the small, focused, simple online business.