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How do I attract the very first customers to our online edtech business?

Context: online platform in an emerging country teaching people how to code (no experience required). Online classes in pre-recorded videos + online…

How Do You Use Pareto’s Principle To Gain The Most Efficient Channels For Traffic?

Hi, Hiten I’m a multi-disciplinary designer & first-time entrepeneur. Recently, I’ve been following almost every method I can think of to garner traffic.…

What will convince you to be a mentor or advisor?

What do I need to do with my startup, and how can I get your attention? I’ve made something that is what some call Vines you can touch, or the next big…

How to differentiate our website/mobile development service?

Hi Hiten, We are a small firm in Bangalore and we provide Website Development, Mobile App development and Technical Writing services. We don’t have a lot…

I’m founding a company with other 2 more people, I am the “CTO”. I don’t want to deal with investors, or board meetings. Am I a good candidate for creating a company?

I figure I’d ask someone with more experience. I’m forming a company with 2 other guys, one is a bit technical but not a developer, but I can talk to him…

You help people a lot but always seem to be stubborn and unwilling to open up at times. I feel like you are holding back from the real you when meeting with you.

Do you have any tips on ensuring you, your founders and employees maintain a good work/life balance?

How do you balance getting a million things done for a startup, with .. Sleeping well Ensuring your S.O. gets Q.T. Exercising Reading for pleasure…

How do I find the energy to pursue my ideas in the evening while working full time?

You have a new SaaS to launch, quickly which are the first 10 activities that you plan for the first 2 months?

Short and concrete! 🙂

What really motivates you?

What’s the primary impulse for an ambition founder? Pride? Love of freedom? Of money? The desire to build your own little Utopia? To retire young? To help…

What are the coolest growth hacks you’ve encountered?

What advice would you give to a startup that’s starting to focus on growth?

What is the easiest money you’ve ever made?

And was it sustainable?

What are the most common mistakes that you’ve seen during your advising and investing?

Is there anything you can do to avoid technology patent trolls?

What would you do different if you went back 5 years ago?

Is Silicon Valley not sort of like the BCS (college football)? Only the big cities get VC consideration, and all other small businesses / startups are seen as sub-par.

What are your thoughts on startups using Blackhat techniques for SEO?

We see the news quite often and once in a while that startups actually use black hat techniques to get them ranked high on Google. There are even cases…

How many Angel investments do you plan to make in 2014?

Why do investors love Delaware companies?

How do you define a growth hacker?

Everyone seems to have their own definition of what it means. Since you helped coin the term, who better to ask than the source.

Are we on track?

We developed an idea in late Feb. Put up a pre-launch sign-up page to validate the idea. Drove traffic via Reditt, Twitter and Betali.st. During last 2…

As an investor, how important are soft-intros?

Honestly, I have a slight fear of contacting an investor cold. I’ve heard so many times that investors only respond to founders that were introduced to…

How do you reach beyond just family and friends?

We’re a super new business and right now our followers and fans are friends and family. While we love them and love their support, we do need to start…