Entries by Trent Dyrsmid

How Brian Casel Productized a Service Business and Attracted 22 Customers in 8 Months

Brian Casel currently runs Audience Ops, a done-for-you content marketing company for B2B software companies. Before that, he built and sold Restaurant Engine, a SaaS for the restaurant industry. He also teaches the Productize course, which teaches consultants how to build a productized service business (which Brian has done twice now). And every Thursday, Brian co-hosts […]

How Nellie Akalp Built and Sold Her Company to Intuit

Nellie Akalp is a serial entrepreneur, small business advocate, and mother of four who is married to her husband and business partner. She started her first business with $100 in 1997 and sold it to Intuit in 2009 for a large sum of cash. Today she and her husband run CorpNet.com where they help entrepreneurs […]

Kevin Waldron on How to Create a Lucrative Coaching Business

Kevin Waldron is the founder of Waldron Leadership, a business coaching and consulting company. An experienced entrepreneur, Kevin started and grew a $24M a year disaster restoration company with over 200 employees before selling his business to a national franchise. Kevin now helps other entrepreneurs create breakthrough results in their business performance. Listen to the […]

How a Merger Created $2.5 Million in Equity

In 2001, fresh out of college, Marcus Sheridan stumbled across his first business with two friends and began installing swimming pools out of the back of a beat-up pickup truck. 9 years later, with the help of incredible innovations through inbound and content marketing, Sheridan’s company overcame the collapse of the housing market and became […]

I’ve Just Launched an eCommerce Business

On Feb 3rd, 2016 at 3:15pm MT, my new eCommerce venture went live. Less than an hour later, we’d made our first sale. A whopping $5.75. By the time I woke up this morning, we’d made another sale of $15.75. Going from launch to revenue in such a short period of time was really fun, […]

How to Find and Validate Your Next Idea

Ian Ippolito is a serial tech entrepreneur. He created one of the first open-source sites (Planet Source Code) and the first online freelance marketplace with escrowing and arbitration (Rent a Coder, which was later renamed to vWorker). Inc. magazine named vWorker to the Inc. 5000 list (of fastest-growing private companies in the US) four years in […]