Did Hiten Shah have an episode of manic inspiration in March? Or is this website struggling to find proper experts?
13 answers from the community
<p>Dana here: The Hiten Shah "Ask an Expert" was an experiment. We got a lot of feedback and concluded that if we were going to do it again, it needed to be done differently. We're going down two paths right now:</p>
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<li><p>Looking to bring in people that are willing to answer questions without a filter. Providing answers you couldn't get elsewhere.</p></li>
<li><p>Disguising the guest to protect their identity. Example, we would tell you they are an Angel Investor, invested in 50 companies, averages $50k/investment, etc. This would allow them to give real answers without fear.</p></li>
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<p>We know that you come here for a "real" discussion, so that's what we're working on providing.</p>
<p>You'll see some new "experts" coming up soon.</p>
so this is like a ghetto version of quora now?
<p>Not even sure what that means.</p>
lol
+one
Do you have a version of anything - ghetto or not? No? Thought so
I also vote #2
Number 2 please!
Number 2 sounds great!
I think this site started out very well with great deep responses to questions. Though recently it has been a little bit YouTube in terms of comments. This is not at the scale of Quora so vetting comments must be no more than an hours work a day. Overall, this is a great idea but you need to go back to basics and manage the comments before this turns into techcrunch or business insider. Otherwise, you will lose all the people that take time out of their day to respond in a thoughtful way.
Maybe make us prove we're in business and exclude employees. Typically employees can't get their hands on articles of inc. Probably a bit extreme, but you get the idea. Employees are the complainers in the comments. Generally founders will be more respectful.
If he did that, this whole website would die. No one likes to jump through hoops just to post on a website; the more hurdles in our path the less likely we are to contribute, and if there are less people contributing then that means there's less content to see, so this place will become a ghost town.
True dat. If it even required me to register, I'd have taken a pass.
And FYI I've been both helpful and sarcastic on SA… and I run my own business. It has nothing to do with being an employee.
That's the main reason why I don't post on Quora. The answers seem interesting but it requires you to log in or register to view anything past the first answer and for me that required too much effort. I like being able to consume content without having to jump through hoops.
If I liked enough of Quora then I might be motivated to register to answer questions but since I can't even see the site without registering, I never got into it. This website solved the problem that Quora has, but if the founder changes it to require us to register to post or answer, I will drop StartupsAnonymous like a bad habit.