[adrotate group="4"] What does it take to start a business around the peer-to-peer lending industry? Peter Renton created Lend Academy, a leading peer-to-peer blog. His site attracts about 20,000 visitors a month. Peter is also the co-creator of LendIt, a conference for peer-to-peer investors. In the following interview, you can learn how Peter is building Lend Academy.     [adrotate group="2"] Say hi to Peter at lendacademy.com.

[adrotate group="4"] What does it take to build a business around an app? Jackie Beck has created an app called Pay Off Debt that has helped thousands of people pay down debt. She is also a personal finance writer. She has been writing about personal finance since 2006. Jackie is passionate about getting out of debt and helping others who want to change their lives.     [adrotate group="2"] Say hi to Jackie at thedebtmyth.com.

[adrotate group="4"] What does it take to build a blog network? Teresa Mears is the executive editor of Living on the Cheap, network of local sites that help people save money. Teresa has been a journalist for 35 years. Today, she is also a blogger, a website publisher, and entrepreneur. Her writings have been published in The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, and The Boston Globe, just to mention a few. In the following interview Teresa shares the challenges of building a successful blog network.    [adrotate group="2"] Say hi to Teresa at miamionthecheap.com.

[adrotate group="4"] What does it take to be a successful entrepreneur? Garrett Moon is the co-founder of CoSchedule which is a social media editorial calendar for Wordpress. Listen to the following interview to learn what it takes to transition from a service business to a product business. You will also learn the viral marketing strategy behind the CoSchedule success story.   [adrotate group="2"] Say hi to Garrett and check out CoSchedule.

[adrotate group="4"] In the following interview Randy Apuzzo shares how to transition from a consulting business to a product business. Randy is one of the creators of Zesty. Zesty is the first content management system designed for collaborative website building process. Listen to the following interview to learn how to transition from consulting to a product business:   [adrotate group="2"] Check out Zesty at gozesty.com.

What does it take to become an Amazon bestselling author? In only a few short years, Amanda Abella published an Amazon bestselling book and built a successful coaching business for millennials. Featured in Forbes, The Consumerist, and The Huffington Post, Amanda is one millennial that made the down economy work for her. How did she do it? Listen and learn from Amanda Abella:   Check out Amanda Abella's book Make Money Your Honey: A Spirited Entrepreneur's Guide to Having a Love Affair with Work and Money.

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