001: The Million $ MOOC with John Azzi - a podcast by Max Breckbill

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 platform Udemy. In early 2013 John and his co-founder Elliot moved to Berlin to begin bootstrapping their new brain-child... and within their first year of business they had netted over $1.5million profit.

Today Bitfountain has their own platform, and a rabid customer-based of over 100,000 students.

Listen to this episode to learn:

The Bitfountain story
How to build an online course that markets itself
Bitfountain's secret sauce for awesome brand loyalty
The tech setup you need for building your first course
How they got 50K email sign-ups in one day

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