Hey everyone! I’m Kyra Bussanich, founder of Kyra’s Bake Shop, an exclusively gluten-free bakery in Portland Oregon. You may have seen us on the Food Network dominating the sweet competition on Cupcake Wars! Our claim to fame, if you will, is that everything we make is gluten-fre … | Continue reading
Hi, I’m Laura Roeder, the CEO and founder of MeetEdgar, a social media automation tool. Since Edgar’s launch in June 2014, our remote team has grown from two to two dozen people, we’re doing $4MM in annual recurring revenue... AND we’ve bootstrapped the entire way. (No investor b … | Continue reading
My name is James Wolfer, and I am the founder, owner, and operator of Valhalla Wood Forge. We are a veteran and first responder run woodworking company that started in 2017. We focus on making rustic wood decor and high end men’s jewelry. Our biggest seller is custom wedding band … | Continue reading
I’m Ryan Scherf, the founder of payment.co (@payment), an app built on top of the Stripe payment gateway for creating card-present charges. Payment is available on iOS and Android, and allows customers who have created online stores to easily collect payments in person, in the sa … | Continue reading
Hello! My name is Caitlin Pyle, and I start Proofread Anywhere back in 2014. I help proofreaders earn extra income from anywhere in the world… even if you’re starting from scratch! I have two different courses: Transcript Proofreading, which teaches students how to proofread lega … | Continue reading
Hello StarterStory! My name is Love Regefalk (yes – it actually is) and I am the co-founder of Mapsery. I founded Mapsery together with my twin brother, Daniel, and we run Mapsery on the side of our engineering studies. The idea of Mapsery is to let you design a map posters of a … | Continue reading
Hey, we’re Chris and Nicole Parr, husband and wife and owners of PRO BIKE TOOL. PRO BIKE TOOL is a manufacturer, brand and online retailer of essential, affordable bike tools & accessories for riders of all disciplines and abilities. Our flagship products include a Mini Bike Pump … | Continue reading
Hi everyone, my name is Mitchell and I’m one of the three founders of Patriot Chimney. We sweep, repair, and build chimneys and also service and repair dryer vents around the Roanoke Valley in Virginia. We created the company in order to provide really, really awesome, transparen … | Continue reading
My name is Jackson Jesionowski. I am 21 years old and am 8 months into owning FullBodyZen, a CBD/HEMP manufacturing company. My whole business started with CBD Pods compatible with the Juul, this soon became hemp flower, prerolls. and hemp cigarettes. Now, 8 months later we are d … | Continue reading
Hello there! My name is Hope Horner, and I’m the co-founder and CEO of Lemonlight, an on-demand video production company that offers brands and agencies access to high-quality affordable video content nationwide. At Lemonlight, we focus on digital video content, which includes br … | Continue reading
Hello, my name is Ryan Hogan and I am the Co-founder and CEO of Hunt A Killer, an innovative entertainment company that delivers clues, items and correspondence to your doorstep each month, which immerses Members in an interactive story. We have a total of four brands: Hunt A Kil … | Continue reading
Hey! We are Kelan and Brittany Kline the founders and co-owners of the popular personal finance blog The Savvy Couple. Our blog was started just over three years ago with the mission of helping families find their freedom by creating more time and money in their lives. We do this … | Continue reading
Hi, Everyone! My name is Yaniv Masjedi and I’m the CMO of Nextiva, a leading business communications company based in Scottsdale, Arizona. I’ve been with the company since the very beginning (spring 2008) when we signed our first customer. Our co-founder and CEO, Tomas Gorny, cam … | Continue reading
Hi, Dane Jensen here, my business partner Noah and I run Sock Club. Our flagship product is socks of course. We started Sock Club as a monthly subscription where we would deliver a pair of unique socks to our customers every month. As we’ve grown we’ve developed a manufacturing s … | Continue reading
My name is Caylee, and I’m the founder of two businesses by night/weekend and a Product Design Manager at Facebook by day. My primary business, Swipies, is a reusable paper company. Swipies are essentially portable, flexible whiteboards that don't smudge because they use wet-er … | Continue reading
Hey everyone, I'm Dan Uyemura - CEO of PushPress. PushPress is a modern boutique gym management system. Our mission is to help gyms manage and grow their business more efficiently than their competition, allowing them to win out their local market. To date, we’ve bootstrapped o … | Continue reading
I am Mike Leon, mechanical engineer, an avid bike rider, service dog trainer and inventor of the 1-Running-Dog Bike Tow LeashⓇ for safe bike, trike, scooter, and wheelchair dog-rides. I am the owner of LEON Engineering, Inc. We design, build and sell the 1-Running-Dog Bike Tow … | Continue reading
Hello, my name is Dennis Michels, I run Good Look Gamer, a webstore for modern board and card games. Our products vary greatly, as new games are released daily. We take a lot of pre-orders for upcoming games, sometimes months before they are released. My customers mainly consist … | Continue reading
My name is Kayla and I am the founder of Tribe Skincare. After working in the beauty industry for 5+ years, I found a gigantic hole in the market for skincare for sensitive skin. Some skincare brands had a few products or a range for sensitive skin, but no brand was solely focusi … | Continue reading
My name is Borja. I am a 36-year-old father-of-three from Spain that runs a retail business called tutiendaenergetica.es (it translates as “yourenergyshop” in Spanish). We have a shop in Pamplona - yes, that’s where the Running of the Bulls happens! - and an ecommerce site aimed … | Continue reading
My name is Nick Bare and I own Bare Performance Nutrition. We are a sports nutrition and health supplement company based out of central Texas, just about 20 minutes north of Austin. Other than being an entrepreneur, I also create social media content for hundreds of thousands of … | Continue reading
My name is Nick Thacker, and I’m a full-time author of thriller and action-adventure novels. I write in the same genres as Dan Brown, Clive Cussler, James Rollins, and Lee Child, and my main series is about a Yellowstone park ranger named Harvey Bennett. Most of my readers are 45 … | Continue reading
Hi, I’m Isabel co-founder of LastSwab. LastSwab is the world's first reusable cotton swab. We just reached 1 million euros on our crowdfunding campaign and are overly excited about the huge support. ### What's your backstory and how did you come up with the idea? We are three i … | Continue reading
Hello! My name is Marco Gatti, an entrepreneur from Milan (Italy) and the founder of Whiteboard.ee. The company deals with video marketing and, in particular, doodle whiteboard animation: that's why I chose the name for this digital project. We are in fact specialized in personal … | Continue reading
Joey van Koningsbruggen, 29 years old and started Jimmy Joy in May 2014 at age 24 to make nutritionally complete meals. We create different products to make eating as healthy as easy as possible. Our products are: Plenny Shake, Plenny Bar, Plenny Drink. The meals are ideal for an … | Continue reading
My name is Patrick Hess and I am the creator of Bar Games 101, a website about a wide variety of games to play with your friends and family. We feature articles about classic bar games like pool, darts, shuffleboard, and foosball, as well as many other games that are fun to play … | Continue reading
It’s lunchtime at the office. Everyone is hungry and anxious for a break from the workday. The team walks into the kitchen only to find it’s pizza for lunch. Again. Or maybe instead of pizza it’s a bland boxed-lunch style sandwich. Either way, these types of mundane meals repeat … | Continue reading
Hi, my name is Andy Sartori. I am the founder of MealPro, a food delivery startup that specializes in pre-cooked and pre-portioned meals. Our typical customer is a busy, health-conscious individual who has no time to shop, prep, portion and cook meals to support their nutrition o … | Continue reading
Hey everyone! My name is Trey Gilliam and I started CBD Solutions just over a year ago. I established this business because I saw the opportunity in the emerging CBD market and I really believe in the benefits that CBD can bring people. My original product was bottles of flavored … | Continue reading
Hi everyone, my name is Shane and I’m the founder of The Match Artist. We help singles take amazing pictures for their online dating profiles. Our flagship product is the 3 hour Executive shoot, which gets you about 100 different photos in 7 different settings. Most importantly, … | Continue reading
My name is Mike Chijoff and I’m the founder of Tactica. We create cool stuff for your everyday adventures. After many years running an industrial design consultancy, I decided it was time that we started developing our own products. It was too often a case where In the consultanc … | Continue reading
My name is Austin Belcak and I run a site called Cultivated Culture where I teach people how to land jobs at the world’s best companies without applying online. The company has been around for 3 years now and we’ve had 50,000+ people come through our community going on to land jo … | Continue reading
My name is Michael “Medium Rare” O’Donnell and I’m the owner of Cave Tools and Grill Master University. We’re known for being one of the highest quality brands of barbecue tools and accessories in the United States. Some of our most popular items include our Stainless Steel Meat … | Continue reading
I started my career at the world-famous Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles Apprenticing under Certified Master Chef Raimund Hofmeister. Since then I have worked in more than 22 countries around the world working for some of the world’s finest chefs from Cas Spijkers, 2 Michelin s … | Continue reading
My name is Billy Westbrook and I reinvented the wiper blade making it more useful for the consumer. My company is called Scrubblade and our wiper blades clean your windshield beyond the rain, to remove bugs, dirt and road grime from impairing your vision. Currently, we are the … | Continue reading
Hey there I’m Evan Waldenberg, the founder of Junk in your Trunks. Clothing from trash for the wonderful piece of garbage you are. We’re making swim trunks out of recycled plastic bottles. We’re not the first brand working with these kinds of materials, but we felt that all the … | Continue reading
My name is Valentin Ozich. I'm the Founder and Creative Director of the men's premium streetwear brand; I Love Ugly. I started the company in 2008 out of my bedroom with zero experience in business or fashion. I studied Graphic Design and was pretty good at art, but my greatest s … | Continue reading
My name is Phil Strazzulla and I run SelectSoftware. We are an expert online review site for HR software - basically the NerdWallet/WireCutter for all of the different HR software categories out there. I started my career working in venture capital at Bessemer Venture Partners … | Continue reading
Hello, my name is Justin Pflanz and my brother Casey and I own and operate TAB Performance. TAB Performance is a manufacturer and retailer of high performance motorcycle exhaust and accessories. Our passion is helping our customers customize their bikes to fit their own personal … | Continue reading
My name is Jeff Proctor, and I am the co-founder of DollarSprout.com, a personal finance blog geared towards millennials who are interested in making and saving extra money. Our revenue model is 100% focused on affiliate marketing. For those unfamiliar, this is when a publisher e … | Continue reading
Hello, my name is Luis Camacho and I am the founder of Fantôm Agency and also the host of the SaaS AdLab podcast, which is a podcast where I interview SaaS founders to learn more about their story. Fantôm is a digital advertising agency which focuses on helping mid-to-late stage … | Continue reading
My name is Kelly Belknap, and I co-founded Adventurist Backpack Co. along with my wife Matilda Sandstrom. We design minimalist backpacks for travel, and for every backpack purchased, 25 meals are provided to families in need across the U.S. (We do this through our partner Feeding … | Continue reading
My name is Sasha Weekes and I’m the 25 years old owner of Timber Grove Studios. Our home-based woodshop is nestled in the hills of PEI’s countryside, and we specialize in decorative shelving and home decor with a focus on minimalist design and simplicity. Each piece is made to or … | Continue reading
Hello! My name is Aaron Weast and I started Drink Shrub, a company dedicated to offering a sophisticated zero-proof solution to an age old problem: what to drink when you’re not drinking. Our flagship product is Small Barrel Shrub, an all-natural “zero-proof” (non-alcoholic) b … | Continue reading
Hi! My name is Jan Bednar and I’m the CEO and founder of ShipMonk, a technology-driven fulfillment center based in South Florida. Our services are primarily geared towards B2C/eCommerce, subscription box, and crowdfunding fulfillment. We also offer FBA prep and B2B/retail service … | Continue reading
Hello there! My name is Jessica Ding and I started Love Lorn Lingerie. Love Lorn Lingerie is a handmade brand specializing in bondage-inspired leather harnesses, lingerie and gothic accessories. I’m forever looking for ways to transform the standard “bdsm” look into something hig … | Continue reading
Hello, I’m Xavi Claveria and I’m the founder of Santafixie.com. Santafixie is an e-commerce focused on urban bicycles, and since 2018 we are a brand with our own products (Bicycles and components). Now we are a mix between marketplace and a Brand of bicycles and components. Sinc … | Continue reading
My name is Mark Johnson. In 2017, I launched Hobnail Trekking Co., an adventure travel company that specializes in treks to Mt. Everest Base Camp and other epic locales in the Himalayas, as perhaps the least qualified person on the planet to do so. By the end of 2019, we will hav … | Continue reading