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Startup Gold Episode #5: The Purpose of Entrepreneurship With Peter Sunde
Web Masters - January 31, 2024 18:23 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsIn this Startup Gold episode of Web Masters, Aaron returns to the story of Peter Sunde, co-founder of the Pirate Bay, a notorious file sharing website.. The podcast explores how Sunde's journey challenges traditional views of entrepreneurship, focusing on his unique reasons for startin...
Startup Gold Episode #4: Seeing the Future with Raj Kapoor
Web Masters - December 27, 2023 16:30 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsIn this Startup Gold episode of Web Masters, host Aaron explores some wisdom shared by Raj Kapoor, founder of Snapfish. The central theme revolves around the importance of skating to where the puck is going in entrepreneurship. Drawing from the advice of successful investor Bill Gurley...
Startup Gold Episode #3: The Importance of Timing with John Danner
Web Masters - November 30, 2023 14:42 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsIn the third episode of the "Startup Gold" series from Web Masters, Aaron explores the importance of timing in the ultimate success (or failure) of a business. The discussion about timing centers around his conversation with John Danner, CEO and founder of Net Gravity, the first Web ma...
Startup Gold Episode #2: The Dangers of "First-Mover Advantage" with Jason Olim
Web Masters - October 31, 2023 07:05 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsIn the second episode of the "Startup Gold" series from Web Masters, Aaron revisits a conversation he had with Jason Olim. Jason Olim founded CDNow.com. It's a name most people don't remember these days, but it was the first major e-commerce retailer on the Web. In fact, it was Amazon ...
Startup Gold Episode #1: How to Build a Truly Great Product with David Cummings
Web Masters - September 30, 2023 07:05 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsAfter 100 interviews with 100 incredible entrepreneurs, Aaron and the Web Masters team are diving into the archives to extract some of the best advice about entrepreneurship and building profitable Internet businesses. We're calling it "Startup Gold." In the first episode of Startup Go...
Taegan Goddard @ Political Wire: The Political Junkie Who Built a Community for Fellow Addicts
Web Masters - July 31, 2023 07:05 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsIn this episode of Web Masters, we delve into the fascinating journey of Taegan Goddard, the visionary behind Political Wire, one of the internet's longest-running political news websites. Host Aaron Dinin interviews Taegan to uncover the early days of blogging and internet media, how ...
Daniel Ha @ Disqus: The Entrepreneur Who Made Commenting Easier
Web Masters - June 01, 2023 16:55 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsIn this episode of the Web Masters podcast, we sit down with Daniel Ha, co-founder of Disqus, the popular online commenting platform. Daniel shares his insights and experiences in building a successful tech company, providing valuable lessons for aspiring entrepreneurs and webmasters al...
Jed Carlson @ ReverbNation: The MBA Who Taught Bands How to Share Their Music Online
Web Masters - April 24, 2023 07:30 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsOn this episode of Web Masters, we sit down with Jed Carlson, co-founder of ReverbNation, the premier online platform for independent musicians and bands to showcase their talent and connect with fans. Leveraging his experiences as a serial entrepreneur, Jed shares his insights on build...
Osman Rashid @ Chegg.com: The Man Who Turned Textbook Rentals Into Big Business
Web Masters - March 27, 2023 07:05 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsIf you've ever had to buy textbooks for school, you know how shockingly expensive they are. You also probably know about Chegg, the company that first made online textbook rentals easy and cheap. At first glance, textbook rentals might not seem like big business, but lots of people nee...
Terry Jones @ Travelocity & Kayak: The Travel Agent Who Put Travel Agents Out of Business
Web Masters - February 27, 2023 08:05 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsIf you want to fly across the world tomorrow, you can make your plans within minutes while sitting on your couch. But booking travel used to be much more complicated. It required calling (or visiting) travel agents who would manage all of your reservations for you, and then you'd have t...
Steve Kaufer @ TripAdvisor: The Entrepreneur Who Wanted a Better Vacation
Web Masters - January 23, 2023 08:05 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsChances are, before you take a vacation, you do lots of research figuring out where to go and what to do when you get there. Today, that's as easy as a Google search, but that wasn't always the case. In the early days of the Web, vacation research required hours of tedious detective wor...
Ben Huh @ Cheezburger Network: The Guy Who Did Haz Funny Cat Pictures
Web Masters - December 19, 2022 08:05 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsWhat would the Internet be without pictures and videos of cats doing ridiculous things? Luckily, we'll never have to find out, and it's thanks, in part, to Ben Huh. In the early 2000s, Ben bought a popular cat meme website called I Can Haz Cheezburger and he turned it into the Cheezbur...
David Gardner @ The Motley Fool: The Brothers Who've Been Giving Online Investing Advice for 30 Years
Web Masters - November 21, 2022 08:05 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsFor almost as long as people have been communicating on the Web they've been using it to talk about stocks. At the heart of those conversations since the very beginning were the Gardner brothers, David and Tom. Together they launched The Motley Fool. The Motley Fool began as a small fi...
Craig Newmark @ Craigslist: The "Forest Gump of the Internet" Who Helps People Find Stuff
Web Masters - October 17, 2022 07:05 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsIs it possible to start a wildly successful company by luck? It is according to Craig Newmark. As you can probably guess by the name, Craig is the founder of Craigslist, the ultra-popular classifieds website that millions of people have been using for decades to help solve just about a...
Marc Seriff @ AOL: The Network Engineer Who Introduced the Internet to Everyone
Web Masters - September 12, 2022 07:05 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsFor millions of people, their first experience with the World Wide Web was made possible by America Online -- AOL. In fact, most people directly associate AOL with the Web. But did you know AOL predates the World Wide Web by nearly a decade? That's because, when AOL launched, the it wa...
The Morality Of Monetization
JayBo's Aviator Club Radio - August 22, 2022 18:08 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsJustin and Baron discuss the new sub culture of entrepreneurs known as monetization, and how it’s potentially shaping the next generation of future business leaders and professionals today. Everything from the significance of hobbies, what it means to monetize, and more! Meme of the day: https:...
How A Recession Affects Advertising
JayBo's Aviator Club Radio - August 10, 2022 17:19 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsJustin and Baron discuss how our current recession is affecting the way we do business, and the way we advertise. Everything from inflation, job cuts, and more! Meme of the day: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRDTQ6uP/?k=1 Got a question for JayBo? Call or text our voicemail: (240) 821-5752. For o...
Jason Calacanis @ Silicon Alley Reporter: The Guy Who Threw the Best Parties in New York City
Web Masters - August 08, 2022 07:05 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsToday, Jason Calacanis is one of the most prominent names in the Silicon Valley tech and entrepreneurship community. But, before he was a well-known West Coast investor, he was at the center of the smaller bust fast-growing East Coast tech scene in New York known as "Silicon Alley." Ja...
The Rise Of The Entertainment Industry
JayBo's Aviator Club Radio - August 05, 2022 07:28 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsJustin and Baron discuss the nuance challenges and upsides of the entertainment industry today. Everything from cancel culture, the morality of modern monetization and more! Meme of the day: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRDTsXkL/?k=1 Got a question for JayBo? Call our voicemail: (240) 821-5752. ...
Charles Adler @ Kickstarter: The Music Lover Who Popularized Crowdfunding
Web Masters - July 11, 2022 07:05 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsThe Kickstarter name is synonymous with crowdfunding. It's like the Kleenex of the crowdfunding industry. But, strangely enough, Kickstarter didn't invent crowdfunding. The technique dates back centuries. Heck, Kickstarter wasn't even the first crowdfunding website. So how did it become...
Amir Ashkenazi @ Shopping.com: The Coder Who Made Online Bargain Hunting Easy
Web Masters - June 27, 2022 07:05 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsMost of us do a significant chunk of our purchasing at Amazon.com. Or, at the very least, a site like it. Amazon may or may not be the cheapest, but we're pretty sure it'll have what we want, we know delivery will be quick, and the price will be competitive. Even though we don't give o...
Mark Chasan @ eMusic: The Lawyer Who Loved Music
Web Masters - June 20, 2022 07:05 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsMost digital music pioneers encountered lots of resistance from the large music record labels. In fact, many of their companies were sued out of existence. But not eMusic. eMusic's founder, Mark Chasan, was one of the few digital music pioneers who actually managed to successfully navi...
Alon Carmel @ Jdate: The Real Estate Investor Who Took Niche Dating Mainstream
Web Masters - June 13, 2022 07:05 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsWhen Alon Carmel launched JDate in 1997, he wasn't a pioneer in the online dating industry. He wasn't even a pioneer in the online Jewish dating industry. In fact, by the time he had the idea for Jdate, the Web already contained over a hundred Jewish themed dating websites. But rather t...
Carl Lipo @ Allrecipes: The Archaeologist Who Taught People to Cook
Web Masters - June 06, 2022 07:05 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsWhat do archaeology and cookie recipes have in common? In truth, not much. But that didn't stop a group of archaeology graduate students from the University of Washington from joining together to create CookieRecipe.com. CookieRecipe grew so popular that the grad students started buildi...
James Hong @ HOTorNOT: The "4 or 5" Who Helped People Figure Out Their Attractiveness
Web Masters - May 23, 2022 07:05 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsEveryone is familiar with the 1 to 10 numeric grading scale used to describe people’s attractiveness. A supermodel might be described as “a perfect 10,” while “a 1” is basically the ugliest person you could ever imagine. In the early 2000s, a couple of college buddies in Silicon Valley...
Jesse Lipson @ ShareFile: The Solo Founder Who Bootstrapped an Enterprise SaaS App
Web Masters - May 16, 2022 07:05 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsAs the ShareFile name implies, it's a software for sharing, storing, and otherwise managing files in the cloud. It's not a particularly unique service. In this episode, you'll hear ShareFile's founder, Jesse Lipson, mention some familiar competitors -- companies like Dropbox and Box and...
Mitch Kapor @ Lotus, the EFF, and Mozilla: The Founder Who Became an Activist
Web Masters - May 09, 2022 07:05 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsMost founders are lucky if they build one organization that changes the world. Mitch Kapor has done it multiple times. And he's supported dozens more through venture backing and philanthropy. On this episode of Web Masters, Mitch talks about his experiences building Lotus Software, the...
Matt Shobe @ FeedBurner: The Designer Who Helped People Monetize RSS
Web Masters - May 02, 2022 07:05 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsBefore social media websites became our feeds of information from around the Internet, people relied on RSS (Really Simple Syndication) to build their own feeds of content from different websites. While this was a great way for consumers to keep updated on what their favorite sites were...
Matt Shobe @ FeedBurner: The Designer Who Helped People Monetize RSS"
Web Masters - May 02, 2022 07:05 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsBefore social media websites became our feeds of information from around the Internet, people relied on RSS (Really Simple Syndication) to build their own feeds of content from different websites. While this was a great way for consumers to keep updated on what their favorite sites were...
Scott Heiferman @ Fotolog: The Serial Entrepreneur Who Created Instagram Before Instagram
Web Masters - April 25, 2022 07:05 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsScott Heiferman was the featured guest on Web Masters Episode #80. In that episode, we heard about how Scott built Meetup, the pioneering website for helping people find their local communities. But that wasn't the only popular website Scott built. He also built Fotolog. Fotolog was a ...
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