Podcasts by StartingFromZero - Self-Funded Founder Interviews

StartingFromZero - Self-Funded Founder Interviews


On the SFZ podcast, Max Breckbill interviews successful ($100k p.a. minimum) Self-Funded Founders who are building their own Ecommerce, SaaS, Digital Product, InfoProducts, Physical Products or Productized Service businesses. Fans of “The Lean Startup”, Tim Ferriss’ “Four Hour Work Week”, Pat Flynn, and Joe Polish will love these interviews with founders who are building solid & sustainable digital businesses. This podcast is ideal for entrepreneurs in search of a digital business idea &/or model.

Each episode details the journey of a 6-figure+ entrepreneur who has built a business through their own hustle, moxie and grit, without OPM (other people’s money). You’ll hear about each entrepreneur’s background, and how that helped (or hurt) their business success.

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StartingFromZero - Self-Funded Founder Interviews
007: Social Entrepreneurship and Experimentation with Thomas Jakel from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Thomas graduated with a business degree and NO CLUE about how to actually BUILD a business. So, he jumped in and immediately made 2 of the most basic mistakes of bootstrapping. -He spent 3 months ...

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Episode 006: From Intrapreneur to Owner with Fabian Dittrich from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"I love my job... but I need to TRAVEL" This was the problem Fabian Dittrich had in early 2013, after working at Zen Desk for 1 year. Today, he travels the world non-stop, most recently living ou...

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005: Creative Marketing for SaaS with Christian Häfner from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

What does it take to start a SaaS company from SCRATCH? 4 years ago, Christian co-founded Fastbill together with a friend from an internship. Today, they are the DACH market-leader for online bil...

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004: Content Marketing for Ecommerce Traffic with Robin Pratap from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

What does the future of Ecommerce look like if you're GREAT at CONTENT? 0-80k unique views/month... in under 1 year... Starting with 1 yoga mat for sale, and €500 in the bank, Robin Pratap of asan...

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003: Bootstrapping A Movement with Marcus Meurer & Feli Hargarten from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Last week I got to catch up with Marcus Meurer and Felicia Hargarten of the DNX (Digital Nomad Conference) series. Since they launched their concept from a hostel on New Years eve in the first min...

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001: The Million $ MOOC with John Azzi from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

What does it take to crack the highly competitive MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) market? This episode is with John Nichols of Bitfountain, who ran the top-selling course on the popular MOOC pla...

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002: Bootstrapping A 6-figure App Business with Johannes Metzler from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Ever had an idea for a mobile app? Johannes Metzler has had a few. 600 to be exact, and all built and uploaded to the iTunes Store in just the last 2 years. This week Johannes Metzler of escaleto...

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031: Cracking the SEO Code with Brian Dean from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Brian Dean is the founder of Backlinko.com, one of the web's premier resources for understanding SEO (Search Engine Optimization) - the art and science of getting your website to show up on google ...

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030: Sales Funnels and Online Marketing Tools with Stephen Esketzis from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

According to Stephen Esketzis every business is at its core a Sales Funnel. In this episode we explore how Stephen built a 6-figure business from a 200 person email list, by focusing on his sales ...

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029: How ThriveThemes built a 7-figure subscription software company in 1 year with Shane Melaugh from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Shane Melaugh is Owner/Founder of ThriveThemes, a 35 employee, 7-figure turnover international software company. But the story isn't quite that simple.. To other self-funded founders, the success ...

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028: 5 million users in 5 years with Amir Salihefndic from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Amir Salihefndic is a passionate builder of digital products... starting with a spell-checker app which he sold for $10k back in university, to his most successful brain-child today, Todoist, a pop...

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027: From Solopreneur to Entrepreneur with Virtual Employees from the Philippines from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

John Jonas is a serial entrepreneur in the internet space. He’s built all sorts of online businesses, from affiliate sites, to marketing tools, to online marketplaces. In his early days online, he...

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026: From Broke in Bali to Online Coaching to Upper-6-figures with Info Products from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Sai Blackbyrn is founder of doubleyourdatabase, a humming online business-model that combines automated online trainings with “done-for-you” marketing services to offer what he describes as “high-m...

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025: The Authority Hacker's Path To Passive-Income from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Gaël Breton is a traffic generation and monetization ninja... he consistently finds the most direct and systematic path to building sleek and automated internet based businesses. Over the years, h...

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024: From $100k in Drop-Shipping to $30million in Ecommerce & Manufacturing from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Joel Lederhause started DiscountRamps.com in 1997 almost by accident, after buying 10 industrial ramps on his credit card. After failing to move the products via his Auto-Repair side-business, he ...

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023: 35k Books and 20k Online Students in 3 years from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

"If I can't find a university I can work in, I will create my own." I think of Anthony Metivier as the professor of the future. He's a true lover of knowledge, learning, research and teaching - bu...

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022: The Million $ Personal Trainer from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

In mid-2014, Chris Dufey decided to leave his job as head of a fitness studio in Dubai, and take his personal training business online. Today, just over 1 year later, his combined businesses bring...

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021: Growing a Youtube Channel to 100k Subscribers from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Gabby Wallace started her Youtube channel back in 2011 as a way of sharing homework materials with students. It petered along for a while, but she started to step up production in late 2014, and ma...

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020: Running a 6-figure business on 2.5 hours/week with Moritz Bauer from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Moritz Bauer is one of the few guys I know who TRULY lives a 4HWW-style business. Over 2 years he was able to build selbstbewusstsein-staerken.net into a 6-figure business next to his day job. And ...

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019: From Corporate Executive To Lifestyle Business Owner from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Natalie Sisson has worn many hats in her career. She started out as an "Intrapreneur" in the corporate world, before she got frustrated by the red tape and sluggish pace of change. So she jumped s...

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018: 0-$20 Million in 7 Years, 0-20k Users in 7 Months from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Tim Fargo's numbers speak for themselves. He launched his first serious venture in 1996 - an "offline" business built around investigating insurance fraud. Over 7 years he grew the company, Omega ...

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017: The Accidental Ecommerce Store from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Bernard Schembri launched his ping-pong website back in the early days of the internet, when everyone still had a "homepage", and cheesy, pixelated graphics were the norm. But over the years, Bern...

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016: Scaling Psychotherapy Online with Digital Products from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

When Yevgeni started his Psychotherapy practice in London in the early 2000s, he loved the work. But after seeing 15+ patients/week, back to back for several years, he was on the edge of total burn...

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015: Monetizing Expertise Online with Grant Weherley from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Grant started his bootstrapping career in his hometown of Lexington Kentucky with building online courses as side projects. After a few months of running these courses on the side, he realized the ...

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014: Bootstrapping Sustainable Products from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Gabrielle Lods has always had a passion for sustainability, and after reading the Four Hour Work Week, decided to start working on her own product. After a thorough analysis, she discovered a inter...

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013: From English Teacher to Location Independent Course Creator from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Shayna's journey started off with a Fulbright grant to study in Brazil. She fell in love with the culture (as well as a local), and moved back to teach english. But teaching english isn't very luc...

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012: Building an Empowered Company Culture from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Malte's founding story is unique on several levels. He got together with 6 other friends, they had their first client 1 month before they officially founded, they were profitable from the first day...

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011: From VC Startupper to Serial Bootstrapper from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Johannis Hatt is a serial entrepreneur who has Co-Founded and taken 3 out of his 4 ventures to 7-figure revenues and beyond. He got his first startup venture off the ground back in 2008 with the l...

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010: The 1k Per Day App Empire with Gabriel Muller from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Mobile apps can be an awesome source of passive income, and for Gabriel Muller they've paid (and continue to do so) in a big way. With $1k/day, and a 4hour workday, he's got the business side of th...

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009: Consultant to Product to Platform with Conrad Wadowski from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Transitioning from selling your time to selling a product is a challenge for many in the consulting profession. This week I had the pleasure of sitting down with Conrad Wadowski to get the play-by...

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008: Growing an Ecommerce Fashion Store w/ Yan Liang of Happiness Boutique from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Yan Liang started Happiness Boutique back in 2013, on the side next to her corporate marketing job. The early days building this Ecommerce store were grueling...full-time weekends and nights in a...

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033: $0-$750k In 1 Year - Scaling White Hat Link Building with Ryan Stewart of Webris.org from 2017-02-08T20:46:20

Do you run (or want to run) a Digital Marketing Agency?

Then this episode is for you. Ryan Stewart launched Webris.org in March of 2016, and in under a year has already bootstrapped it to ...

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032: From High-school Dropout to Productized Email-Marketing Service from 2016-05-12T06:10:02

This episode’s a bit different. We start off talking about business, John’s story and email marketing, but wax philosophical on “success”, what it seems to be in the internet business world… and if...

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