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Mark Organ, Eloqua co-founder and CEO of Influitive, shares stories from the gritty frontline of entrepreneurship in this podcast. Tune in to hear how his startup was four days away from bankruptcy before going on to sell the company for nearly a billion dollars.

Bettina Hein shares how she sold her first software company (text-to-speech software, which lives on in all Android phones) right out of graduate school, sold it for $125M, and founded video ad platform Pixability.

CompStak CEO Michael Mandel shares how he got the idea for CompStak and built this empire to the point where its revenue doubles each year.


In this interview with Brand Yourself CEO and co-founder Patrick Ambron, we learn how turning down Shark Tank offer led to doubling business traffic and increased brand exposure of his online presence management service.

Culture Amp cofounder & CEO Didier Elzinga discusses the importance of corporate culture and how employee engagement directly impacts a company's ROI.

Successful entrepreneur Jim Twerdahl shares the marketing lessons he's learned from being president of JBL, Marantz and other successful companies.

Highfive founder Shan Sinha discusses building an insanely simple videoconferencing business that grew their revenue 170% last year and is changing the way businesses communicate.

To ensure that your business is successful, you've always got to be building team & culture, and if you don't know how to build a good company culture, you need to learn.

If you take on too many clients, you're not going to be able to do the best job. Business success is not just about closing deals, it's about maintaining quality with your current clients and customers. Check out this episode of our 7-Figure Playbook video series!

What would happen to your business if you took a vacation? If it can't thrive without you, you don't really have a successful business.

Most entrepreneurs turn to paid advertising to acquire new customers, but there are many more options. Here are 17 ways to get those first 100 customers:

In today's interview with Sean Ellis, we talk about how he skyrocketed the growth hacking movement, and built GrowthHackers to 100K Members.