This week's questions: Do you do your own online marketing tasks (landing pages, optins, email copy, sales page copy, etc.) for your businesses or have you hired out for that? I know you've already hired out for FB ads. - Hilawe Semunegus What

Startup Q&A #25: Venture Capital - Pitching and Making a Deal

May 22nd, 2017 24m 55s

This week's questions: What are different ways that I can structure my deal? What is a private placement memorandum? How do I prepare for a pitch? What steps are involved in due diligence? This week's tip: Use short emails to engage your audien

Startup Q&A #24: Venture Capital - Who can invest and who can raise money?

May 15th, 2017 20m 15s

This week's questions: What types of businesses can raise money? Who can invest in a privately held business? How do I find angel investors? How do I determine the valuation of my business? Tip of the week: do session recordings of your website

Startup Q&A #23: Self-Publishing - Making Money With Your Book

May 8th, 2017 18m 26s

Where should I sell my book online? How do I market my book online? How do I make an audiobook version of my book? How do I leverage my book to make money in my business? Tip of the week: Use Booktrakr.com to track the sales of your book

Startup Q&A #22: Self-Publishing- Why and How

May 1st, 2017 17m 32s

http://startupqa.co This week's questions: Who should write a book? Should I get a publisher for my book? Where can I learn about self publishing online? How do I actually go about writing my book? What people do I need to hire to help put my b

Startup Q&A #21: Evaluating an Idea, Choosing a Bank, Investing in IPOs, Building an Email List, and Partnership Agreements

Apr 24th, 2017 23m 59s

This week's questions: How can you get better metrics prior to jumping into a specific marketplace and evaluating the success of your idea? - Bryan Cargill How do I select a bank or a credit union for my small business? - Marissa Poppens Snapch

Startup Q&A #20: Business Partnerships, Convention Booths, SEO, Understanding Financials, and Book Publishing

Apr 17th, 2017 29m 33s

http://startupqa.co This week's questions: What does a good business partnership look like? What kind of operating agreement should you have in place with your partners? - Daniel Gold Is it better to attend conventions as a presenter with a boo

Startup Q&A #19: Learning to Code, Mentorship, Encouraging Kids, and Protecting Intellectual Property

Apr 10th, 2017 30m 40s

This week's questions: I'm reading your fascinating book Online Business From Scratch and am planning to start a social network. But I have one question: Do I need to learn how to write code? - Keith Bates Who are your mentor(s) in all areas of

Startup Q&A #18: Investing Options for Entrepreneurs

Apr 3rd, 2017 22m 17s

This week's questions: Should I hire a financial advisor? Why don't you like directly investing in real estate? Who should become an angel investor? Tip of the Week: Look into donor advised funds- https://www.fidelitycharitable.org/giving-strat

Startup Q&A #17: Investment Asset Allocation for the Entrepreneur

Mar 27th, 2017 28m 37s

http://startupqa.co This week's questions: What types of assets should I invest in through my retirement accounts? How should entrepreneurs invest differently than normal people with normal jobs? Where should I put money after I have maxed ou

Startup Q&A #16: Investing for Entrepreneurs - When and How to Start

Mar 20th, 2017 25m 25s

This week's questions: When should I stop investing in my business and start investing for retirement? Where should my personal finances be before I start investing? What investment priorities should an entrepreneur have? Tip of the Week: use h

Startup Q&A #15: Email Marketing - Getting to Your Customers' Inboxes and Monetizing your List

Mar 13th, 2017 27m 52s

This week's questions: How do you sell your products to your audience using email? How do you stay compliant with CAN-SPAM? How do you make sure that your messages don't end up in the spam folder? What are some different ways that you can make

Startup Q&A #14: Email Marketing - Why to Use It and How to Do It

Mar 6th, 2017 24m 50s

Why is building an email list important? How can I build my email list using my website? What are some other ways that I can build my email list? What kind of email should I send my audience? Tip of the Week: test emails with https://www.mail-t

Startup Q&A #13: Focus and Productivity

Feb 27th, 2017 25m 30s

This week's questions: I feel like things are moving super slowly and I'm already working 80 hours per week. What do I do to see the progress that I want to see, or do I simply need to reset my expectations? - Sarah Werner What do you do to kee

Startup Q&A #12: Bookkeeping, Networking Organizations, Selling a Business, and Politics in the Workplace

Feb 20th, 2017 23m 21s

This week's questions: What do you recommend to new entrepreneurs use to manage and track financials for their start-up? -Lisa Groon Should I join my local chamber of commerce? - Marissa Poppens At what point should I start to think about selli

Startup Q&A #11: Managing Your Email List, Funding Your Business, Knowing if You're Ready to Start a Business, Scratching your Own Itch

Feb 13th, 2017 23m 24s

This week's questions: How often should you email your main mailing list and when should you segment it out? Also, when someone joins your mailing list and they receive your automated emails and your current emails is that too many emails for t

Startup Q&A #10: Web Hosting Issues, Marketing Spend, Non-Disclosure Agreements, Getting Started with Investing

Feb 6th, 2017 25m 26s

What should you plan on doing if 100% of your business is based on an internet platform and it goes down? - Dan Pickering Where do you put your marketing money in a start-up? - Sheila Rae Should I ever sign a non-disclosure agreement or ask som

Startup Q&A #9: Online Business Tools, Health Insurance, Finding Investors, and Formal Education

Jan 30th, 2017 24m 50s

This week's questions: What are some tools that you use in your business, especially ones that maybe no one has ever heard of before? - Jaime Masters How do you navigate health insurance as a self employed individual? - Anonymous How do you fi

Startup Q&A #8: Building an Advisory Team, Learning from Failure, Evaluating a Niche, and Investing in Gold or Bitcoin

Jan 23rd, 2017 27m 52s

This week's questions: What’s the best way to begin building an advisory team or board of directors? - Lisa Groon Have you had any past failures and what did you learn from them? - Joshua Novak When looking to start an online business what step

Startup Q&A #7: Prioritizing Expenses, Attending Conferences, Performance Metrics, Legal Structures, Business Skills

Jan 16th, 2017 27m 20s

This week's questions: Chicken or egg scenario for start up non profit: 1) purchase office space prior to having funding to hire executive director 2) fundraise to hire executive director prior to having an office space for them. - Anna Hyronim

Startup Q&A #6: Bootstrapping vs. Investment, Networking, Business Banking, Industry Changes, Exit Strategy

Jan 9th, 2017 29m 59s

This week's questions: How can you tell if you should bootstrap your startup or seek outside investment? - Robert Mehling What are your keys to networking, and how do you follow up with those you meet? - Shannon Ward What should an entrepreneur

Startup Q&A #5: Reinvestment, Marketing, Pricing SaaS, Prep for Entrepreneurship, Vetting an Idea

Jan 2nd, 2017 31m 22s

http://www.startupqa.co/ This week's questions: Steve Brumwell asks, "How do you approach current Angels to invest more when your metrics have not hit the hockey stick yet and you need to buy more time as you know exactly the right route?" Thad

Startup Q&A #4: Allocating Profit, Finding Service Professionals, Selling Shares of a Private Company, and Hiring

Dec 26th, 2016 26m 45s

Growth Hack of the Week: Export your contact list from LinkedIn Resource of The Week: The Publisher Lab Podcast This Week's Questions "If you have a decent profit and you want to reinvest it in your company, how do you decide what to spend it

Startup Q&A #3: MLMs, Business Incorporation, Pitching Investors and Angel Investing

Dec 19th, 2016 29m 23s

Growth Hack of the Week: Stop doing low-value tasks in your business. Focus on high-value tasks and outsource, delegate or automate the rest. Resource of The Week: Automatic Income by Matthew Paulson This Week's Questions "What is your take on

Startup Q&A #2 - Content Creation at Scale, Automation, Business Debt and More.

Dec 12th, 2016 21m 51s

This week's questions: "How do you build a high-margin business that relies heavily on automation?" (from Alan Park) "How do you feel about investing in commercial real-estate?" (from Tyler Stunes) "How do I find a mentor and what can I expect