How to Focus Your Business to Be Successful — with Fiverr CEO Micha Kaufman

Noah Kagan Presents

Noah Kagan

Entrepreneurship, Business

4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2017

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Micha Kaufman, the founder and CEO of Fiverr rarely gives interviews. He's too busy growing Fiverr from a bootstrapped company into a billion dollar success. But in today's episode, we hear from Micha on Fiverr's "one click" focus, how he grew Fiverr from nothing, and where he sees Fiverr in the future. Go behind-the-scenes with the founder of the "gig economy" and one of the most successful web 2.0 businesses today. Use these lessons to turn your own idea into a successful business.

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0:00.0	We have a guy who designed the Google Chrome browser logo.
0:04.4	We have a guy who wrote press releases for Apple.
0:08.0	We have a lady that designed video ads for Sony. These are people that you couldn't hire. It was just impossible.
0:20.0	Welcome to Noah Kagan presents.
0:31.0	What a party people, it's your boy, Pita Bread, aka Rabbi Can't Lose, aka Noah Kagan.
0:32.0	Today's episode was a very hard to get guests, but we got him.
0:36.4	He's part of our Israeli series.
0:38.0	He's Mika Kaufman, the CEO and co-founder of Fiver.com which has raised over a hundred and ten million dollars
0:46.1	and has taken the freelancing world by storm. If you're starting a business or
0:50.3	growing a business you're going to love this chat.
0:53.0	Recently, I even started using Fiver and got an e-book designed.
0:56.0	Other designers that I emailed were charging at least $1,500.
1:01.0	And on Fiver, how much do you think I spent? Drummerle,500.5 or how much do you think I spent?
1:03.1	Drum roll, please.
1:04.0	85 bucks.
1:06.3	And I got an impressive ebook in two days.
1:08.7	You can see it yourself at AppSumo.com slash Tony Robbins. If you're interested to hear how a billion dollar company grew from nothing, you're
1:17.2	going to love this chat. Three specific things that you'll learn are how did
1:20.9	Fiver go from a bootstrap company into a massively successful
1:24.3	business, how Mika uses a true north metric to focus his team on the most
1:29.4	important goal to grow. And third, fascinating lessons on finding your purpose and avoiding
1:34.8	burnout as you get older. We talk about this and a bunch more. Enjoy.
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