Matt Mullengweg was a high school student looking for a better way to customize his blog when he discovered the...
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Jon Oringer is not a professional photographer. But when he needed images to market his growing internet business, the traditional...
Fred Turner was only 16 when he built his first PCR machine, a tool used to amplify small segments of...
How do you start a whole new category of beverage — without any experience in the beverage industry? This week, we...
It was a real treat to interview Food52 CEO and co-founder Amanda Hesser, who’s an old friend going back to...
Highlights from this episode Sometimes, a big mistake can trigger a big idea. In 2003, Mike McDerment was running a...
We’re heading back to the archives, this time revisiting my 2006 interview with Steve Hindy, co-founder of Brooklyn Brewery. Steve’s...
Like most successful entrepreneurs, Mark Wilson, CEO of Chime Solutions, is an ambitious and savvy business person who’s driven by...
Today, Evan Williams is most well-known for being the billionaire co-founder of Twitter, Medium and Blogger. But back in 2005...
It’s a special holiday edition of Venture Voice, and the holiday we’re celebrating is Festivus. You may know it from...
Jessica Lessin is founder, CEO, editor-in-chief and sole owner of The Information, the influential subscription-only tech publication that was launched...
“It’s the entrepreneurial spirit of success, not for the sake of the fruits of success, but for the sake of...
Todd McKinnon is the founder and CEO of Okta, a $25 billion publicly traded software company that you may never...
“The very first time you're doing startups, it’s like, oh my God, drinking from a firehose is too tame of...
Mark Cuban has built and sold more than one company and invested in plenty of others, but you might be...
Today's media executives plotting to charge for their content would do well to hear how Larry Kramer beat Jim Cramer's...
Any shareholder in a startup can tell you there's a big difference between paper wealth and cash. Short of an...
"Dial 1 for sales, dial 2 for support..." Ten years ago it cost over $10,000 to get a phone system...
Craigslist seems unbeatable. It's often blamed (or celebrated) for destroying the classifieds business that helped keep American newspapers afloat. Now...
Joel Spolsky first came on Venture Voice over three years ago to discuss his company which he launched in a...
Graham Hill started the blog TreeHugger to cover green issues in 2003. After a steady climb in traffic and advertising,...
It takes only a few seconds to customize a radio station on Pandora. Its founder Tim Westergren has been struggling...
The title financier conjures images of mahogany desks and million dollar checks for most. But for anyone pitching to David...
Not to be called a one trick pony, Sam Wyly’s turned himself into a billionaire by starting and growing companies...
Jeff Stewart needed that done yesterday. Jeff became an entrepreneur when he founded the web consultancy Square Earth in 1995....
Last time Derek Sivers was on Venture Voice three years ago he told us he had to “whack ’em off...
Attention entrepreneurs dealing with the current economic downturn: This interview is for you. After working as a journalist for Jason...
Whether working with market trends or against them, Frank Addante has found entrepreneurial success. Before he was 29 years old,...
The name Tom Perkins is now almost synonymous with venture capital, but it's clear that he cut his teeth as...
Jeremy Stoppelman is the co-founder and CEO of Yelp, a site where users can write and share reviews of local...
Not many entrepreneurs have a motor like Kevin Ryan's. Kevin is best known for his work as CEO at the...
Marketing a startup is tricky business. Every entrepreneur faces the dilemma between allocating time to improving the product and marketing...
Before the rise of the Internet, cable TV was the new form of distribution remaking the entertainment business. Life-long entrepreneur...
The battery is an afterthought for most inventors. All the fun seems to be in developing a device, not in...
Premal Shah believes your last name doesn't need to be Gates or Rockefeller in order to make a real dent...
Real business networking takes place in the country club, at the chamber of commerce and on the golf course. After...
If technology entrepreneurs have a guru, it surely must be Guy Kawasaki. For about two decades, Guy’s been advising entrepreneurs...
There are not many entrepreneurs who have spent their entire 10-year careers starting new ventures in online media, but Jason...
Digg, the news website that uses its own readers rather than editors to decide what stories are most important, has...
If there are best practices in entrepreneurship, you’ll hear the secrets to them in this coverage of the first half...
While many restaurants offer dozens of wines, beers and mixed drinks, there are few non-alcoholic options on the menu. Former...
What do you do after building and selling a business for $1.5 billion in the course of only a few...
Venture Voice has been illuminating entrepreneurship through the podcast for just short of a year. Now, at the Venture Voice Startup...
Starting a service aimed at the blogging community is like jumping into a pressure cooker – all of the users...
Being robbed at gun point and being threatened by the mob are not problems the average entrepreneur encounters. Steve Hindy...
Scott Johnson is a long-time entrepreneur on the bleeding edge of technology. He started his first business in 1987 and...
Shoba Purushothaman’s career has shifted dramatically since she started her first job as a business journalist in Malaysia. After spending...
When a startup launches its first product, should it expect a lot of fanfare? It should if it launches at...
Kelly Perdew may have won The Apprentice 2, but the listeners of Venture Voice have given him a new recognition for his...
The listeners have spoken. Jason Fried of 37signals and Joel Spolsky of Fog Creek Software have won Venture Voice Entrepreneurial...
“Stock lockup” is a term remembered with horror by many entrepreneurs who weren’t allowed to sell their dot com shares...
It’s not easy to stand out at Kleiner Perkins, one of the most prestigious venture capital shops in Silicon Valley...
We’ve interviewed some of the most accomplished and most hungry entrepreneurs on this show, but now the year’s almost over...
If you think the ringtone business is for kids, then Fabrice Grinda has a $130 million lesson to teach you....
While some entrepreneurs fret over new business ideas, Joel Spolsky of Fog Creek Software focuses on hiring the best and...
Many would-be tech titans dream day and night about how their hot new idea will change the world. Derek Sivers...
At age 28, Mena Trott is a veteran blogger and an accomplished company founder. Six Apart, the business she started...
The business world seems to keep getting more complicated, but Jason Fried is all about keeping things simple. When founding...
Dropping out of college to start a technology company is almost a cliché. But is technology the only industry that...
You might expect that if you launched your pride and joy -- your startup company -- at a conference, it...
New businesses usually start small and work slowly and steadily to build their reputation. But that's not true of startups...
Entrepreneurs who were doing business in the eighties might still remember IBM for its suits and corporate ways. Now Drew...
Statistically speaking, Starvest Partners shouldn't be in business: Few venture capital funds raised in 1998 survived the dot com bust,...
If you thought you're an entrepreneur just because you started a software company in Silicon Valley, you're dead wrong, according...
Some venture capitalists keep a low profile, preciously guard their e-mail addresses from needy entrepreneurs and put on a jacket...
While some people still wonder if the fax machine has been rendered obsolete, Jeremy Hague is ready to write e-mail's...
If someone told us to listen to business insights from a former game show contestant back in the day when...
A quick glance at Evan's bio might make it seem as though he just stumbles into all the newest, hottest...
Entrepreneurs need community. This entrepreneur makes communities. An Illinois native, Scott Heiferman came to New York while working for Sony...
We covered the past with Joe in our previous show, but it's clear he spends a lot of time thinking about...
Conventional wisdom tells us to go get a job out of college to learn the ropes, not to take on...
This Internet bad boy doesn't think he's so bad, and one of the top venture capital firms agrees to the...
Sick of potential investors not taking your phone calls? Pitch a venture capitalist on his iPod. Dick Costolo of FeedBurner tells us how his...
Dick Costolo of FeedBurner joins us for our first show. FeedBurner provides services for publishers of RSS (Really Simple Syndication). RSS is an...
