Kate Kordsmeier thought her holistic wellness website, Root + Revel, was her last career stop… but then she got bored. Instead of walking away, she took a different route: She sold it.
Andrej Ilisin learned SEO in its early days, which set him on the path of buying and selling websites, before he launched a services firm dedicated to founders doing the same thing.
Despite “print is dead” naysayers, Courier Media built a global publishing company for entrepreneurs and attracted an acquisition offer from one of its prominent advertisers: MailChimp.
“A bad year doesn’t necessarily spell certain doom for your business,” this founder reflected on building NinjaOutreach. “You just have to keep trying.”
A series of Product Hunt launches and hand-on customer service enabled Alexander Isora to grow Unicorn Platform to $16,000 in MRR before selling it to no-code firm Mars.
This entrepreneur put years of flipping experience to work on his first e-commerce site. He leaned into SEO to drive traffic and increased revenue to $30K+ per month.
Skyrocketing demand for information about half-marathons had helped Terrell Johnson earn about $1.2 million from his content site. But he wasn’t sure he wanted to keep up that pace.
This reporter turned his side project into a full-time gig, writing a newsletter about college sports. But his true passion was writing — not running a business.
