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What does it take to start a successful business? We’re working the phone to find the answers by calling entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and their friends and foes. This podcast features...

Matt Mullengweg was a high school student looking for a better way to customize his blog when he discovered the open source software communi...

As Co-Founder and Chairman of Techstars, David Cohen has spent nearly his entire career focused on helping entrepreneurs succeed. Aspiring f...

Originally from Denmark and now living in the US, Henrik Werdelin has been recognized as one of the “Top 100 Most Creative People In Busines...

Fabrice Grinda is one of the world’s leading Internet entrepreneurs and investors, with over 150 exits on 500 angel investments. When I firs...

Guy Kawasaki’s name has become almost synonymous with tech entrepreneurship and evangelism. Over the past 25 years, he’s had a hand in advis...

CD Baby founder Derek Sivers made two appearances on Venture Voice in the early days of this podcast. In our first conversation, he describe...

Born into a family of entrepreneurs, LivePerson founder and CEO Robert LoCascio always had the entrepreneurial spirit, going back to his tee...

This week we’re revisiting my 2007 interview with Tom Perkins, who was one of Silicon Valley’s most successful venture capitalists. The firm...

Jon Oringer is not a professional photographer. But when he needed images to market his growing internet business, the traditional stock age...

Fred Turner was only 16 when he built his first PCR machine, a tool used to amplify small segments of DNA or RNA. He was interested in seque...

How do you start a whole new category of beverage — without any experience in the beverage industry? This week, we dip back into the archive...

It was a real treat to interview Food52 CEO and co-founder Amanda Hesser, who’s an old friend going back to my early days in the New York st...

Sometimes, a big mistake can trigger a big idea. In 2003, Mike McDerment was running a small web design agency when he accidentally saved ov...

We’re heading back to the archives, this time revisiting my 2006 interview with Steve Hindy, co-founder of Brooklyn Brewery. Steve’s career...

Like most successful entrepreneurs, Mark Wilson, CEO of Chime Solutions, is an ambitious and savvy business person who’s driven by a strong...

Today, Evan Williams is most well-known for being the billionaire co-founder of Twitter, as well as Blogger and Medium. But back in 2005 whe...

It’s a special holiday edition of Venture Voice, and the holiday we’re celebrating is Festivus. You may know it from the hit TV series Seinf...

What does it take to start a successful business? We’re working the phone to find the answers by calling entrepreneurs, venture capitalists...

What does it take to start a successful business? We’re working the phone to find the answers by calling entrepreneurs, venture capitalists...

What does it take to start a successful business? We’re working the phone to find the answers by calling entrepreneurs, venture capitalists...

LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman was one of my first guests on Venture Voice, back in 2006. Even though LinkedIn had 7.2 million users by then,...

Mark Cuban has built and sold more than one company and invested in plenty of others, but you might be surprised to learn that what he value...

Today’s media executives plotting to charge for their content would do well to hear how Larry Kramer beat Jim Cramer’s TheStreet.com by resi...

Any shareholder in a startup can tell you there’s a big difference between paper wealth and cash. Short of an IPO or outright acquisition, t...

“Dial 1 for sales, dial 2 for support…” Ten years ago it cost over $10,000 to get a phone system with the advanced options we’re used to hea...

Craigslist seems unbeatable. It’s often blamed (or celebrated) for destroying the classifieds business that helped keep American newspapers...

Joel Spolsky first came on Venture Voice over three years ago to discuss his company which he launched in a very different way from most ent...

Graham Hill started the blog TreeHugger to cover green issues in 2003. After a steady climb in traffic and advertising, Graham sold the comp...

It takes only a few seconds to customize a radio station on Pandora. Its founder Tim Westergren has been struggling for almost a decade to m...

The title financier conjures images of mahogany desks and million dollar checks for most. But for anyone pitching to David Cohen’s TechStars...

Not to be called a one trick pony, Sam Wyly’s turned himself into a billionaire by starting and growing companies in technology, oil, retail...

Jeff Stewart needed that done yesterday. Jeff became an entrepreneur when he founded the web consultancy Square Earth in 1995. Only three ye...

Last time Derek Sivers was on Venture Voice three years ago he told us he had to “whack ’em [investors] off with a stick”. Now we know why....

Attention entrepreneurs dealing with the current economic downturn: This interview is for you. After working as a journalist for Jason Calac...

Whether working with market trends or against them, Frank Addante has found entrepreneurial success. Before he was 29 years old, one of Fran...

The name Tom Perkins is now almost synonymous with venture capital, but it’s clear that he cut his teeth as an entrepreneur. Educated at MIT...

Jeremy Stoppelman is the co-founder and CEO of Yelp, a site where users can write and share reviews of local businesses. Everyone’s now a re...

Not many entrepreneurs have a motor like Kevin Ryan’s. Kevin is best known for his work as CEO at the on-line advertising firm DoubleClick,...

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 and f...

The battery is an afterthought for most inventors. All the fun seems to be in developing a device, not in powering it. But when was the last...

Premal Shah believes your last name doesn’t need to be Gates or Rockefeller in order to make a real dent in global poverty. After leaving hi...

Real business networking takes place in the country club, at the chamber of commerce and on the golf course. After all, the Internet is just...

If technology entrepreneurs have a guru, it surely must be Guy Kawasaki. For about two decades, Guy’s been advising entrepreneurs in one way...

There are not many entrepreneurs who have spent their entire 10-year careers starting new ventures in online media, but Jason Calacanis just...

Digg, the news website that uses its own readers rather than editors to decide what stories are most important, has been growing with a fury...

If there are best practices in entrepreneurship, you’ll hear the secrets to them in this coverage of the first half of the recent Venture Vo...

While many restaurants offer dozens of wines, beers and mixed drinks, there are few non-alcoholic options on the menu. Former dot-com entrep...

What do you do after building and selling a business for $1.5 billion in the course of only a few years? That’s the question David O. Sacks,...

Venture Voice has been illuminating entrepreneurship through the podcast for just short of a year. Now, at the Venture Voice Startup Worksho...