Have you met the awesome Dave Kerpen? Dave is the NY Times Best selling author of Likeable Business and CEO of Likeable Local. Well, here’s your chance to hear about how Dave and his better half Carrie Kerpen built a successful, award winning social marketing business together as husband and wife (NOT easy to do…
Mike Michalowicz best selling author of The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur and The Pumpkin Plan stopped by to teach entrepreneurs some methods and most of all a mindset of how to stay out of the entrepreneurial STRUGGLE TRAP.

Startup pivots, Fab.com, and RISING ABOVE with Amy Cosper Editor in Chief of Entrepreneur Magazine. We’d like to thank Amy Cosper once again for stopping by LUCKYstartups to share her wit, wisdom, and contagious “can do” attitude with the rest of us. We covered lots of ground with Amy and there are plenty of “pearls…

Very candid and down to earth spot with David Smith, Co-Founder of Sweet Leaf Tea. COMPANY: Sweet Leaf Tea CO-FOUNDERS: Clayton Christopher, 36; David Smith, 36 LOCATION: Austin 2008 REVENUE: $12 million EMPLOYEES: 47 START-UP YEAR: 1998 START-UP COSTS: About $3,000 for rudimentary manufacturing equipment; $3,000 for a secondhand van; $1,000 for a computer and…
Mike Michalowicz teaches us how to increase revenues leveraging “Involvement Marketing” ? Mike Michalowicz (pronounced mi-CAL-o-witz) started his first business at the age of 24, moving his young family to the only safe place he could afford – a retirement village. With limited resources and no experience, he systematically bootstrapped a multi-million dollar technology business, sleeping…
Mike Michalowicz teaches us how to increase revenues within (30) thirty days. Step One: “Be FOCUSED. Be NARROW. Be the BEST.” HUGE thanks to our sponsor / partner! YouTern is like eHarmony.com – for intern candidates and employers. Mike Michalowicz (pronounced mi-CAL-o-witz) started his first business at the age of 24, moving his young family…
HUGE thanks to our sponsor / partner! YouTern is like eHarmony.com – for intern candidates and employers. > More about Jeff Pulver: Jeff Pulver Entrepreneur, Chairman and Founder Jeff Pulver is the Chairman and Founder of pulver.com, and one of the true pioneers of the VoIP industry and a leader in the emerging TV on…
This is a piece we did for Entrepreneur.com. Josh Williams Founder / CEO of Gowalla gives us a look on the inside of Gowalla and where they are headed. Gowalla is a primarily mobile web application that allows users to check-in to locations that they visit using their mobile device. This is achieved either through…
HUGE thanks to our sponsors: Brad has been an early stage investor and entrepreneur for over twenty years. Prior to co-founding Foundry Group, he co-founded Mobius Venture Capital and, prior to that, founded Intensity Ventures, a company that helped launch and operate software companies. Brad is also a co-founder of TechStars. Brad currently serves on…