How To Make A Full Time Income As A Micro-Influencer (A Content Creator With A Small Audience)
When you think about making money from content, your mind probably jumps to starting a YouTube channel, Instagram or TikTok feed, live streaming on Twitch, or a blog or podcast, where you will release entertaining or helpful videos, articles or podcast episodes. Maybe...
Collis Ta-eed Co-founder Of Envato (Themeforest, Audiojungle, Videohive), Aussie Tech Unicorn That Stayed Private And Bootstrapped (VC EP25)
Collis Ta'eed with his wife Cyan started out with an idea -- they wanted to create a marketplace where digital media producers could sell their creations to customers. They began with the then popular Flash file format and later expanded into things like WordPress...
Blog Mastermind 2.0: The Final Class (January 2022)
Update: Blog Mastermind is now closed forever. The links below no longer work. It's the end of a journey. It's also a final opportunity for you. In 2007 I created the first course about how to make money blogging. It was called Blog Mastermind (here is the original...
What Is Web3 And How You Can Capitalize On The Dawn Of Decentralization
There are a few key moments in the history of the internet where I remember feeling like a new wave was coming. These are always exciting times because new means new opportunities, especially for entrepreneurs and those willing to dive in and build something. If you...
Russ Heddleston, Co-Founder DocSend, Sold To Dropbox For $165 Million (VC EP22)
Russ Heddleston is the co-founder and former CEO of DocSend, which was acquired by Dropbox for $165 Million in early 2021. Russ currently works at Dropbox continuing the vision he had for DocSend. During this interview we hear how Russ went from studying at Stanford,...
Lee Zlotoff, Creator Of MacGyver, How He Became A Screenwriter, The Origin Of His Famous Show And How He Kept The Rights To It, 3 Steps To Tap Into Your Own ‘Inner MacGyver’ (VC EP20)
I'm resurfacing this interview from 2016 because recently (2021) the team at MacGyver HQ has been sharing this interview on their social media, so I thought it would be a great time to share it with those new to Vested Capital. It was quite a thrill to see the actual...
Tim Ferriss Trilogy: The Entrepreneur Origin Story, Optimizing Learning, The Original 4-Hour Workweek Interview (VC EP18)
Tim Ferriss needs no introduction. Author, lifestyle design pioneer, angel investor (Wealthfront, Uber, Facebook, Twitter, Alibaba, Shopify, Duolingo), peak performance bio hacker, accelerated learning leader and of course, podcast host. Tim first appeared on my...
Why Your Email List Is Still The Most Important Sales Tool You Have
I was recently a guest on a new podcast from the team at Systeme.io, called From Zero To Launch. You can listen in to the interview below. It's been interesting to watch the Systeme platform grow in popularity. I had Aurelien Amacker, the founder of Systeme, on my...
Paul Biggar Co-Founder Of $1.7 Billion Tech Unicorn CircleCI.com, DarkLang.com, PhD In Compilers (VC EP16)
Paul Biggar got started as a computer engineer early in life. He became a specialist in the field of compilers (software engineers use compilers to test code to see if it works or not). He liked compilers so much he completed a PhD on the topic. Paul had a few false...
Todd Garland Explains How He Started And Grew BuySellAds.com Into A $10+ Million Dollar Company (VC EP15)
Todd Garland is the founder of BuySellAds.com, an advertising management platform and ad selling service that I have to say I am quite jealous of.
Why am I jealous?
Because Todd has built a company – a company doing over $10 million a year in revenue – with the same idea I had.
