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FWIW, the title really puts me off. Similar titles that put me off:

"How I built a startup in N hours"

"How I built a business with just $N"

where N is designed to be small to increase click through.

In society we're all looking for too many short cuts. Too many easy fixes. Fat? Nah - don't exercise and eat healthily, get a diet pill!

Also the whole rags to riches story is a really tiresome angle to take on things IMHO. I'd say that most startups are built by people without any money :/

(Having said that I do really like the interviews you do. Very interesting).

Agreed but if you listen to Mixergy the #1 message that I hear from the guests is that they put so much hard work into their businesses.

The titles get people to click the links but the interviews stand for themselves after that.

Keep up the great work Andrew!

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