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>What would be your one piece of advice for someone looking to bootstrap a company?

Hire only when your revenue exceeds costs. Might be hard but this instills the discipline of always operating at a profit.

>How can one identify B2B problems worth solving? And how do you go about acquiring and selling to those customers?

Look for inefficiencies in workflows. If you save companies time or effort in a big way, they will pay up. To acquire customers, you need to super-precise emails (I never did outbound but I'm unsure my style of content marketing will fly today)

>If you were starting today, which domain would you choose? The one you feel most passionate about. But remain open to significant pivots. First idea never works, but it is essential to choose something you can really get into.



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