Building an Empire, $5 at a time: The Story of Fiverr.com

By Maren Kate On August 12, 2010 · 31 Comments · In Branding

I got the idea of interviewing Micha Kaufman, the co-founder of Fiverr.com shortly after using the site several times in one day. I was hooked, for five bucks I got someone to record a very professional voice over for my grasshopper.com telephone number.

I also got someone to create an eBook cover and toyed with the idea of taking the girl up on her offer to wear my company’s name on her forehead to high school for a day – but then thought naah, that’s not my target demographic.

This interview is chock full of amazing advice from a man who in six months has grown Fiverr.com to epic proportions, they have over 75,000 active listings on the site and have been featured on news outlets everywhere. Micha gives great perspective for those thinking about starting an internet business and his ideas on making everything simpler is truly ingenious. If you get half as much out of this interview as I did it’ll be well worth the 30 minutes spent – so turn of your rerun of True Blood & listen to some entrepreneurial goodness!

Download Micha-Kaufman-interview.mp3

Check out Micha‘s start up at www.Fiverr.com and be prepared, you’ll probably be there for hours!

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http://www.solidtutor.net Hyperchiller

Awesome awesome awesome.

Thanks for sharing Maren. That is one useful website. I'm loving it!!
StuartMcMinigal

Great and informative interview maren….

Stuart
http://twitter.com/gwil Garrett Wilson

Site must be so popular it says it's down right now!
http://craigdeakin.com/ Craig Deakin

Such a great product. I've seen a lot of services similar to Fiverr lately, I guess the vertical has reached it's peak, I believe that Fiverr is at the top of the pack. One of the services is called ” UpHype ” which looks like a straight copy in terms of UI design with a few tweaks.
http://buildingmyonlinebusiness.com Todd Giannattasio

Wow, what a great concept. I had to wait hours today to see the site because it was down, nice work blowing it up! Definitely will be a great resource for bootstrappers
http://www.Escapingthe9to5.com/ Maren Kate

Yeah it is growing by leaps & bounds!
http://www.Escapingthe9to5.com/ Maren Kate

Gotta go look at that!
http://www.Escapingthe9to5.com/ Maren Kate

I heard that, I wonder what drove all the traffic – I want to think it was the podcast going live lol but I'm sure it's just because of it's growing popularity!
http://craigdeakin.com/ Craig Deakin

It's worth it. I would be interested to know what you think about it, I think there are a lot of entrepreneurs who can make themselves a successful career by doing that sort of thing.
http://thoughtwrestling.com/blog Mark Dykeman

Very interesting, haven't heard of Fiverr.com before.

Looks more interesting than doing Mechanical Turk stuff…
http://www.Escapingthe9to5.com/ Maren Kate

Yeah I agree – it's more fun for both the buyer & seller
Sales

i wonder how people can make money from this….ie) doing easy repetitive tasks that people need and or creating apps?
http://www.Escapingthe9to5.com/ Maren Kate

How they make money on Fiverr? Well I think most of the time the service providers really enjoy what they are doing, thus it's a “Fun” job so the money doesn't matter as much – but i do ask myself that same question with things too.
http://andbreak.com/ Julius

Great interview Maren. I like the idea of Fiverr. It's cool to see how many people are willing to offer something on Fiverr. There are great offers on Fiverr I will be sure to check it out when I need something.
http://twitter.com/Sponsi Ralitza Iankova

Great interview. Thanks for introducing us to Fiverr, I'm definitely going be using it very soon.
http://www.committedtoweightloss.com Mark

thank you very helpful. totally agree life is too short to wait
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http://www.facebook.com/people/Ahan-Han/100000423022500 Ahan Han

I came across ScriptsListing Marketplace i.e http://www.scriptslisting.com/marketplace and was just really amazed to see that they are giving away $1 just for posting Gigs.

There is no fee/commission which is a big plus. Their member base is too strong and have a lot of buyers hunting for gigs.

Anyways, i hope to make good cash there by getting Orders.
Fiverrway

Yes, fiverr is really amazing. However you'll find useful some extra info about micro job sites fiverr included http://fiverrway.com/top-20-be…/

Thanks and Happy New Year!!!
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http://twitter.com/bestof5rr bestof5rr

Micha is such an inspiration to me. Thanks for the interview.
http://www.VirtualZeta.com Maren Kate

Awesome glad you liked it.
Onegoodman25

I came a cross another alternative http://www.fiversworld.com seems to be a good one too
Rnadigel

I’ve been on Fiverr for 5 months. Believe it or not i sing Happy Birthday to people

http://fiverr.com/users/djemotion/gigs/sing-happy-birthday-with-this-goofy-hat-to-whoever-you-want
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_E3HZ272IIG7E5WS2MF2CGMPMTM James Parker

fiversworld.com is my favorite, I am making a good money out of referring other people.
http://www.fiverplus.com Fiverr Alternative

Great Story about Fiverr. Very good site . One more best Fiverr Alternative site make more money from this site http://www.fiverplus.com
http://www.fiverralternatives.com Fiverralternatives

great article about fiverr. I would invite you to check out : http://www.fiverralternatives.com

It is a blog about fiverr and all alternative websites
Cornell Sullivan

Very Good Interview Ms.Lady!….
Josh

very cool interview
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=591052728 Ethan Murray

I really can’t go past TenBux.com it’s customer support is great, the gigs are good quality… It’s just really good…
http://www.facebook.com/people/Quoc-Pham/8310185 Quoc Pham

This is also a great website to check out too iworkforten.com