Today’s podcast features Max Valverde, founder and inventor of Morninghead, the revolutionary cure for bed head. Max launched Morninghead on Kickstarter.com, the online crowd-funding platform and achieved his goal times six. In this episode, Max shares how he came up with the idea, how he got the product made, and how to use Kickstarter to [...]

Today’s podcast features LaJuan Stoxstill-Diggs, aka Mr. Craigslist Hustle. He knows precisely how to make money on Craigslist. LaJuan was laid off a few years ago and instead of sitting around waiting for another job to fall into his lap, he started hustling. Not that kind of hustling. LaJuan figured out how to use Craigslist [...]

Today’s podcast featured Phil Anderson, creator of BudgetSimple.com, the free online budgeting tool. Phil wanted a piece of software that would simply help him manage his money. He also had a strong desire to be his on boss. So he used his software development skills to build the tool that he needed. He shared it [...]

This episode of the Part-Time Money podcast is with Kristen Carney of Cubit. Cubit sells demographic data: $20 basic demographic reports, a web app that people use to pull demographic data, and a consulting branch that does custom data research. In 2009, Cubit took a small round of funding from a local Austin seed stage [...]

Kim Nimsgern is a true part-time entrepreneur, recently launching a new product to market called Click-n-Curl (a hair styling tool). She also works full-time in higher education at a Technical College as part of the leadership team. In the interview, Kim shares how she worked with the Small Business Administration to find a local university [...]

Today’s episode features Jen Portland from ExcelRainMan.com, the Excel spreadsheet company. She started this business on the side, after discovering the need for the service, and being the “go-to” spreadsheet person everywhere she worked. Jen convinced her employer to let her go part-time in 2012 so that she could focus more time on Excel Rain [...]

Today’s episode is all about how to start a babysitting business. This is my interview with Cristina Twigg, the owner of Easy Care Sitters, a NYC-based babysitting business/agency. Three years ago, as a receptionist at an advertising agency, Cristina started her own NYC-based babysitting agency. She has been running it on the side for the [...]

The Part-Time Money Podcast is back, baby! In this episode I speak with Jim Vitale, owner of Vital Hockey Skills (get it?), one of the premiere hockey schools (camps and private coaching) in Toronto, and one of the fastest growing in North America! Jim is a classic part-time entrepreneur, as he’s a school teacher full-time [...]

Today’s episode is with Vincenzo Villamena, owner of Online Taxman. With tax season just around the corner, I thought this would be a good interview to share. Vincenzo has prepared taxes for friends and family in the past, but never really taken his skills to an entrepreneurial level. In the Summer of 2010, his employer [...]

Today’s episode is with Aliya Jiwa, owner of the children’s clothing company called Spunky Stork. Alyia’s post-graduate overseas job “never materialized” and she had to return to the States and live with her Mom. During the next few years she did a lot of freelance writing to get by and she took the opportunity to [...]

Getting laid off stinks. The guest in today’s podcast knows all too well. But instead of succumbing to his tough situation, he chose to take an idea that he’s always had and turn it into a small business. Today’s podcast features Mikel (Mike) Schwarz, of RibbedTee.com, the undershirts company. Mike is helping me kick off [...]