Ben Wagner On Building LifeKraze, Where People Track How They Live Life [Interview]

Interviews - 03 February 2012

Ben Wagner On Building LifeKraze, Where People Track How They Live Life [Interview]

Ben Wagner is the founder behind LifeKraze, a website that asks “What have you done?” Another social network? Maybe, but this one is unique because you are awarded points for doing “stuff” and then redeem them for things you actually want. This was a really fun interview with Ben. He’s a real funny guy. What [...]

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Tony Smith, Founder of I Am Tony GFX, Talks About Where He Began And Where He Is [Interview]

Interviews - 14 October 2011

Tony Smith, Founder of I Am Tony GFX, Talks About Where He Began And Where He Is [Interview]

This interview was conducted by Stephen Perkins and was originally posted on his blog. Tony Smith‘s interest in graphic design began while he was still in school. Today, he has turned that interest into a wildly successful graphic design studio. On top of that, he also runs a branding company that is starting to take on [...]

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Nate Drouin, Could Fundraise.com Be The Next Great Crowdsourcing Platform? [Interview]

Interviews - 23 July 2011

Nate Drouin, Could Fundraise.com Be The Next Great Crowdsourcing Platform? [Interview]

How did a 19-year old get venture funding for his business idea? Better yet, how did the same teen entrepreneur establish the connection in the first place? Today’s interview is with Nate Drouin, the founder of Fundraise.com. For any domainers out there, the name itself would make you jealous. In this interview, Nate talks about [...]

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Max Lytvyn Of Grammarly On Building The Most Accurate Grammar Checker Grammarly [Interview]

Interviews - 15 July 2011

Max Lytvyn Of Grammarly On Building The Most Accurate Grammar Checker Grammarly [Interview]

Max Lytvyn is the founder behind Grammarly, the web-based solution for spelling and grammar checking. After selling his previous company to BlackBoard, he decided to again focus on the educational industry. Watch how Max started the company, some of the lessons he learned and what their strategy is for growing the company. What Max Shared: [...]

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Onibalusi Bamidele Of YoungPrePro On How To Build A Blogging Business In Nigeria

Interviews - 17 June 2011

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As if being an entrepreneur was not hard enough, being an entrepreneur in Nigeria is really difficult. They face many challenges. First is the fact that Nigeria does not have Paypal. That alone makes it really hard to do transactions online. Second, there’s the challenge of power instability. However, today we have an interview with [...]

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Giancarlo Massaro On Creating A Business Out Of Free Giveaways [Interview]

Interviews - 10 June 2011

Giancarlo Massaro On Creating A Business Out Of Free Giveaways [Interview]

Giancarlo Massaro is the founder of the daily product giveaway site AnyLuckyDay.  Below he shares the story of how he started anyluckyday, along with how he gained traffic to his site,his future plans and some advice for upcoming entrepreneurs. Q. First off tell us a bit about yourself. who you are? where your from? etc; [...]

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Milun Tesovic On How MetroLyrics Gets 48 Million Unique Visitors Per Month [Interivew]

Interviews - 20 May 2011

Milun Tesovic On How MetroLyrics Gets 48 Million Unique Visitors Per Month [Interivew]

Milun’s story starts out like any teen entrepreneur’s. He had a hosting company at 15 which he later sold. He started analyzing traffic and saw that a large number of people were searching for music lyrics. That’s how MetroLyrics.com started. Along the way, Milun won business plan competitions, and oh yeah gets 48 million unique [...]

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Diane Keng, Founder of MyWeboo, Faceless [Interview]

Interviews - 22 April 2011

Diane Keng, Founder of MyWeboo, Faceless [Interview]

Diane Keng is a teen entrepreneur based in Sillicon Valley. That in itself presents a lot of opportunities and challenges. She’s up to her 4th business now, Faceless. She talks to TBF about what her first couple of businesses were, what it’s like being a female tech entrepreneur, and how having parents as investors can [...]

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Amanda Nachman, College Magazine | For Students, By Students [Interview]

Interviews - 08 April 2011

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Amanda Nachman, an alumni of University of Maryland is the founder of College Magazine, a magazine for college students, written by college students. She got the idea while interning for another magazine when she thought “I wish I could write about something I care about”. Thus, College Magazine was born. She now has a team [...]

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Sean Spooner, Corby Magazine- How To Build Publishing Empire At 14 [Interview]

Interviews - 01 April 2011

Sean Spooner, Corby Magazine- How To Build Publishing Empire At 14 [Interview]

Sean Spooner and his friend decided that his town of Corby needed a magazine that people would actually read. After being told that they couldn’t do it, the two went ahead and pushed forward. The result? Corby Magazine which now reached 5000 readers and which has small businesses advertising with. They then got national press [...]

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