
iCracked.com: Should you Skip College when Building a Company? with AJ Forsythe
AJ Forsythe is Founder of iCracked which is a worldwide iPhone/ iPod/ iPad repair and buyback company with over 340 on-demand iTechs in 10 countries. They were voted Inc Coolest College startup of 2012.

SocialAppsHQ: How Being Scared Sh*tless Forced Validation – with Rajat Garg
Rajat Garg got his MS at Stanford and at Amazon. Over the past several years, his company has registered over 1.5 million businesses. Listen to why he was scared sh*tless and what he did to get past it.

VacuumSpot.com.au: Lessons from a Door to Door Vacuum Salesman that grew a Million Dollar Business -with Alec Nelson
Alec Nelson was founder and CEO of Vacuum Spot which is a vacuum supply company that generated over $1Million in sales. They took the business from a shed to a full warehouse in just 12 months.
***May Alec Nelson RIP. His wife and cofounder Kerry Nelson informed me that Alec unexpectedly died on May 28, 2014. Our condolences to his family and may his memory live on.
Click to Watch…How Alec turned around a Sale

Ups & Downs to Achieve Gold with 5 Time Olympian & Gold Medalist in Volleyball Natalie Cook
Natalie Cook was the First Ever Australian woman to compete in 5 Olympic Games. She is an Olympic Gold Medalist (2000) and Olympic Bronze Medalist (1996). Here is her fascinating journey on a record-breaking Olympic career and discover how you can apply her principles to achieve Olympic Gold in your business.
*This was part of a paid program from WFBOS and is offered at no cost for InspiredInsider listeners.

Why Did Nolan Turn Down Steve Jobs’ Offer of 33% Stake of Apple for 50K? with Atari & Chuck E. Cheese Founder, Nolan Bushnell
Nolan Bushnell is a technology pioneer, entrepreneur, and scientist. He is the Founder of Atari Corporation and Chuck E. Cheese Pizza Time Theater. He has also founded numerous other companies, including Catalyst Technologies, Etak, and Androbot. Nolan’s most recent venture is his company, BrainRush, which is dedicated to teaching academic subjects at over 10 times the speed in classrooms with over 90 percent retention.
In 2009, Nolan was honored with the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Fellowship Award (BAFTA). He also received a LARA award from the German Academy of Entertainment, was featured in The New Yorker, was inducted into the Video Game Hall of Fame, and was named one of Newsweek’s “50 Men that Changed America,” among many other accolades.
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[Shark Tank Series] Pre Sharktank Appearance: How to Sell Millions to Raving Fans, Get Walmart Distribution, & Work with Top Brands with Kim Kaupe & Brittany Hodak [ZinePak.com]
ZinePak was founded in 2010 by Brittany Hodak and Kim Kaupe. Fans have spent more than $20 million on ZinePaks and they distributed more than 2.5million in 19 countries. ZinePak works with top entertainers and brands including KISS, Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber, American Idol and have partnered with Walmart for larger distribution.
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How to Create Irresistible Offers with Lisa Sasevich [TheInvisibleClose.com]
Lisa Sasevich is the founder of TheInvisibleClose.com and was ranked on the prestigious Inc. 500/5000 list of America’s Fastest Growing Private Companies for 2 years in a row. After 25 years of winning Top Sales Awards and training senior executives at companies like Pfizer and Hewlett-Packard, she left corporate America and In just a few short years created a multi-million dollar business while raising two toddlers.
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How to Beat your Competition with Online Advertising – Max Teitelbaum [WhatRunsWhere.com]
Max Teitelbaum is cofounder of WhatRunsWhere which gives companies competitive advantages with media buying. They help you keep track of your competition and spy on top performing campaigns. He teaches at Baylor University’s Center for Entrepreneurship and mentors other startups through Growlabs. Max talked about important factors in media buying & much more.

How to Diversify and Create Recurring Revenue with Joe Palko
Joe Palko has started several successful companies. In 1994, he co-founded an e-Commerce pet supply retail company, Theferretstore.com. Joe and his co-founder Scott started Solid Cactus which grew to over 200 employees when it was sold to web.com group, a publicly traded company. The company had been in the INC 5000, and had been honored for best places to work in PA for 3 years in a row.

ABNSave: How to Help Your Business Save Money with Collective Buying Power with Jack Bergman
Jack Bergman is founder of Allied Business Network (ABN) that has helped over 300,000 businesses since 1997 get steep discounts on anything from office supplies to car rentals using their collective buying power.

DSV2.com: How to Let Go and Outsource with Chad Hamzeh
Chad Hamzeh runs DSV2 Media. His company manages an average of $500,000+ monthly in campaign traffic with a strong ROI. They maintain a waiting list of clients.

Big Lessons & Mistakes with Kevin Lee Co Founder of DidIt and We-Care
Kevin Lee is Co-Founder and CEO of DIDIT and WECARE. Didit was recognized in Inc 500 (#137) as well as a #12 position on Deloitte’s Fast 500 in 2007. We-Care.com has generated over $5 Million dollars to date for charities including Clean Water Act, ASPCA, and Save the Children.
Kevin was an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award Finalist in Metro New York Area in 2008.
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[Top Author Series] Performing with Royal Teens to Starting a Billion Dollar Company with James Cusumano
James A. Cusumano was co-founder of the billion dollar company Catalytica. He is the author of the book, Balance. He is an accomplished leader with many successful careers as an entertainer, scientist, and entrepreneur.

Terracycle.com: How to Make Money from 1.5 million Cigarette Butts & Save The World with Tom Szaky
Tom Szaky is one of the top eco-friendly entrepreneurs of the planet. Tom is the founder of Terracycle, a company which makes consumer products out of waste.
His company collected over 1.5 million cigarette butts in a year and 500 million juice pouches. They make goods out of garbage from backpacks to fence posts and much more.

GetRichSlowly.com: How did Comic Books Lead to Time Magazine’s Top 25 Bloggers -with JD Roth
JD Roth grew GetRichSlowly.org to over million visitors per month, became one of Time Magazine’s Top 25 bloggers, and sold his site for more money that he dreamed was possible. It was not as easy as that and he is going to talk about some of the mistakes along the journey.

CoachingTest.com: How to Uncover Exactly What Customers want to Desperately Buy -with Dr. Glenn Livingston
Dr. Glenn Livingston is the founder of the International Coach Certification Academy. He has more experience in both coaching and business development than the founders of virtually any other coach certification program on the planet.
Together with his wife and cofounder Dr Sharon Livingston, they have sold over $30,000,000 in consulting services to major brands like AT&T, American Express, L’Oreal and many more. They are among the few ‘marketing psychologists’ that billion-dollar companies have used to crawl deep inside their prospects’ minds and uncover exactly what customers were desperate to buy and how to improve profits on existing product lines.
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[Top Author Series] Heartfelt Leadership: Same Methods Used to Train FBI Hostage Negotiators -with Dr. Mark Goulston
Dr. Mark Goulston is a prominent psychiatrist and consultant to major organizations including IBM, ESPN, and FBI hostage negotiation trainers. His book called, Just Listen : Discover the Secret to Getting through to absolutely anyone, ranked #1 in six Amazon categories and has been translated into 14 languages. Dr. Goulston has appeared on Oprah, The Today Show, CNN and is the Cofounder of Heartfelt Leadership.

Beth Scott: 7 World Records & 17 Paralympic Medals. Did I Mention she is Legally Blind?
Beth Scott is a United States Paralympian who earned 17 Paralympic medals (10 gold, 2 silver and 5 bronze) in the Barcelona, Atlanta and Sydney games between 1992 and 2000
She had seven world, paralympic and american records. In 1993 and 1996, she was chosen as the USOC Blind Athlete of the Year.
A little background:
Elizabeth (Beth) Scott is a United States Paralympian. She learned how to swim at age 5, and in college was elected as captain of her college swim team at Ball State, where she also set school records and won a conference title.
Beth earned 17 Paralympic medals (10 gold, 2 silver and 5 bronze) in three Paralympic Games between 1992 and 2000 (Barcelona, Atlanta and Sydney).
Sydney, 2000 2 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze Atlanta, 1996 1 gold, 1 silver, 4 bronze Barcelona, 1992 7 gold, seven world records
In 1993 and 1996, she was chosen as the USOC Blind Athlete of the Year.
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CrowdSource.com: How to Get Big Customers Like Target & Coca Cola and Build a Labor Force of 250K+ -with Stephanie Leffler
Stephanie Leffler cofounded CrowdSource that provides an elastic labor force of over 250K to large companies, including bed bath and beyond, orbitz, target, groupon, coca cola and many more.
Stephanie also cofounded the ecommerce platform MonsterCommerce with Ryan Noble that grew to serve over 8,000 small businesses with annual sales exceeding $20 million, supported by a staff of more than 200.

ShoeMoney.com: How to Build Multimillion Dollar Businesses, Lunch w/ Hulk Hogan & much more -with Jeremy “Shoemoney” Schoemaker
Jeremy “Shoemoney” Schoemaker went from selling washers and dryers at Sears to creating multimillion dollar companies. He was founder of NextPimp.com, AuctionAds & currently runs ShoeMoney Media and the PARS Program.