Entrepreneurs on Fire

Mish and Rob make boring businesses awesome, and they do it while traveling the world with their laptops. (Seriously - they've moved apartments 23 times in the last year!) They blog at makingitanywhere.com to show that being a digital nomad doesn't have to mean backpacking in Bali: they invest in UK real estate, and have spent the first six months of their location independent life in New York City.

Jimmy is the Co-Founder of the high-end travel gear company Minaal, and they are preparing to release a revolutionary new carry-on luggage design. Starting out from his remote home country of New Zealand, then relocating to Vietnam, and then the US, Jimmy is living proof that ‘just doing it’ really works.

Ryan is currently the CEO at GearHost, a scalable and reliable high-end cloud hosting company that specializes in Microsoft technologies and has a strong focus on customer service. Beginnings don’t get much humbler than starting a company in your Mom’s basement, and that’s just what Ryan did. GearHost has kept their basement-casual attitude and mixed it with corporate-level business practices, because that’s just who they are.

Rob runs a property investment company called RMP Property in the UK. Honesty and impartial advice is absent from the UK property industry so Rob set up RMP to fix it. He also co-hosts one of the most popular business podcasts in the UK, The Property Podcast. Rob loves a challenge and sets himself big hairy goals each year. He’s climbed Mount Kilimanjaro, Mont Paradiso and has also completed the New York City Marathon.

John is an expert behavioral and mindset coach with a unique ability for helping people release the mental obstacles that prevent them from achieving their very best in business and in life. In the last 10 years he has written two NYT Best-selling books and has appeared on Larry King Live eight times. Today he is CEO of Praxis Now, which develops some of the most advanced brain re-training programs in the world.

Bob founded and served as CEO & Chair of three successive startups over a 30-year period in Medical imaging, newspaper imaging, digital cameras and consumer electronics. Bob then retired and taught entrepreneurship at Babson MBA for seven years. We will chat about all this and his new startup, IEC, in today's interview.

Corey is a 24-year old actor-turned entrepreneur who set off on a 24-month challenge to retire his mom. Using mobile apps, eBooks and other ventures as his vehicle to do it, he plans to retire his mom for Christmas of 2013.

Nancy’s passion for creating persuasive presentations changed her life and inspired her to help others tell stories that spark meaningful action. Her journey from failing at public speaking in college to leading the world’s best-known presentation firm taught her several lessons on how the power of communication can change the world.

David is the author of Design for Hackers: Reverse-Engineering Beauty, which debuted in the top 20 on Amazon’s Best-seller list. David is dedicated to breaking down the fundamentals of good design and making design literacy accessible to both developers and Entrepreneurs.

Billy is a former professional poker player who launched BlueFirePoker, a poker training site in 2009. In 2011, he started launching and acquiring E-commerce stores.  He's now launching an E-commerce training site to help people who want to own their own store.  He also blogs at ForeverJobless.com.

Patrick is an authority on global business trends including big data and the social media revolution. He is the author of the award-winning book Marketing Shortcuts For The Self-Employed and a regular speaker for Bloomberg TV.

Sunil is the Founder and CEO of Scripted.com, a marketplace where businesses can go to hire freelance writers. Scripted has a pool of 80,000 freelance writers and ranks as one of the top five largest writer communities on the Internet, providing hundreds of businesses with thousands of blog posts, tweets, press releases and articles each month.

Dan is an author of both Business and Real Estate books, a connector of experts and a Joint Venture Artist who seeks to help everyone who needs that special something or someone at just the right time. 

Debbie is the inspiring Founder of Women on Fire and a pioneer in the field of executive and life coaching. She is known for her work in transforming women’s lives. Her gift is her ability to see and nurture the strengths, gifts and talents of the women she works with.

Walker and Evan are the Co-Founders of Teespring. These two Brown University students created a website that leveraged the crowdfunding model to successfully sell a t-shirt to commemorate their favorite college bar that shut down. Within six hours they had amassed hundreds of pre-order sales via PayPal. Coupled with the success of the momentous sale, they received interest from clubs, communities and individuals who all expressed interest in creating similar campaigns for their custom products.