Entrepreneur's Handbook

Inspirational stories plus practical takeaways from the entrepreneurship world.Today's guest is Dru Riley, the founder of Trends.vc. Now, a few years ago, Dru did what many of us would love to do, he quit his nine to five and just traveled and took a sabbatical for years. He learned about himself. He learned about what made him tick, and eventually, he decided it was time to get back to work. He tried a few different startups and Trends.vc is one that's now thriving. They're a newsletter...

Inspirational stories plus practical takeaways from the entrepreneurship world.Today’s guest is Nihal Mehta, the founder of Eniac Ventures. They invest in bold leaders who use code to create transformational companies. They especially focus on seed rounds and early-stage companies.Before becoming a venture capitalist, Nihal created 5 companies himself. Some of these went bankrupt and others were acquired for millions of dollars. So he’s seen the full range of what can happen at start-up and u...

Inspirational stories plus practical takeaways from the entrepreneurship world.Today's guests are Mark Tilbury and Curtis Tilbury who run multiple businesses and make millions of dollars per year. They built the Mark Tilbury brand which has 7 million TikTok subscribers, over 1 million on YouTube and hundreds of thousands elsewhere. They want to help their audience to strike it big and become wealthy because they believe too many people are set up to fail. You can learn their stories and their...

Inspirational stories plus practical takeaways from the entrepreneurship world.Today's guest is Jason Yanowitz. The founder and CEO of Blockworks. It’s a financial media company that has grown rapidly since its inception in 2018. They have over 50 employees and run an editorial site, a newsletter, and multiple podcasts - which now have the biggest podcast network in the cryptocurrency space. He also hosts massive live events such as Permissionless which had over 7,000 attendees.Jason is a mas...

Inspirational stories plus practical takeaways from the entrepreneurship world.Today’s guest is Nabil Borhanu who is the founder of Graphene Ventures. They invested in both Snap and Lyft before their IPOs. He’s got a very interesting background having grown up in Saudi Arabia. He worked his way up by starting multiple companies and running divisions worth over $100 million dollars with massive clients like Saudi Telecom.One day, circumstances changed and he then left Saudi to go all the way t...

Inspirational stories plus practical takeaways from the entrepreneurship world.Today's guest is Justin Welsh. He’s got massive audiences on both LinkedIn and Twitter. He started by working on start-ups where he helped build two companies to 50 million in annual recurring revenue. He also helped businesses raise over 300 million in venture capital but along this path, he burnt out and that’s where the flip to becoming a creator.He is now making millions per year with a high-profit margin...

Inspirational stories plus practical takeaways from the entrepreneurship world. Today's guest is Vasu Prathipati, the founder of MaestroQA. Vasu didn’t have an easy journey to where he is today. He struggled to get a job after University and then build a business that for many years didn’t quite seem that it was ever going to take off. Now they’ve got over 31 million in funding. Their clients are Monday.com and Class Pass where they are changing the face of customer service for these bus...

Inspirational stories plus practical takeaways from the entrepreneurship world.Today's guest is Greg Jackson, the founder and CEO of Octopus Energy. He's one of our favorite guests ever! He's a serial entrepreneur who has run multiple successful businesses while believing strongly in doing the right thing. His current company Octopus Energy was founded in 2016 and is already worth $5bn with $6bn in revenue and 3100 employees. They grew so fast by carving out technological advantages over...

Inspirational stories plus practical takeaways from the entrepreneurship world.Today's guest is Sam King a.k.a Sam King FTW. He started a YouTube channel aged just 16 which blew up and supported his lifestyle for several years with 160k followers. He realized he loved the marketing side of his channel the most so then started up his own marketing agency. Now he's a Co-Founder of Flick.Tech, a SaaS product for creators and businesses to help them grow faster on social media. They currently hav...

Inspirational stories plus practical takeaways from the entrepreneurship world.Today's guest is Dickie Bush who you might know from Twitter where he has amassed 200k followers in just over 2 years. He started writing online as he realized his corporate career with Blackrock isn't where he wanted his life to go. After 9 months of struggle, he finally had a breakthrough, and ever since he's been helping others through Ship30for30 with Nicolas Cole. He's also released TypeShare, a SaaS product t...