My Audience: My audience is primarily composed of investors and entrepreneurs. They love hearing stories on building wealth, creating passive income, building businesses, and achieving financial independence.
The goal: The goal of this podcast is to teach people how to achieve financial independence. My listeners want to hear authentic and approachable stories. Please be ready to talk about your background, what challenges you faced, what mistakes you made, and what strategies work best.
Duration: 30 – 40 minutes (approximate)
Ideal Guest: Entrepreneurs, SaaS entrepreneurs, tech entrepreneurs, e-commerce entrepreneurs, investors, venture capitalists, consultants, and service providers.
Podcast Questions
Category 1) If you’re a SaaS, tech, or e-commerce entrepreneur, I will ask a lot of these questions:
- When did you start your company?
- Why did you start this company?
- What problem does your company solve?
- Did you bootstrap or raise capital?
- If you raised capital, how much did you raise?
- What funding round are you in today?
- How many people work in the company?
- How many partners?
- How much do you charge?
- How many customers do you have?
- What marketing strategy works best for your company?
- What mistakes have you made?
- What is your biggest lesson learned?
- What is your biggest win?
- What was your revenue one year ago?
- What is your revenue today?
- If you sold the company, how much did you sell it for?
- If you sold the company, was it a multiple on EBITDA or Revenue? And what was that multiple?
- What is the #1 key takeaway my audience can apply to their business today?
- Where can the audience reach you?
Category 2) If you’re a retail investor, I will ask a lot of these questions:
- What is your background and what do you do for work?
- When did you start investing?
- What dollar amount did you start with?
- What was your investment strategy when you first got started?
- Did that strategy work?
- What lessons did you learn?
- What is your strategy today?
- What type of businesses or industries do you invest in?
- What type of businesses or industries do you avoid?
- What stocks do you hold in your portfolio?
- How many stocks do you hold in your portfolio?
- When was your last investment?
- What percent of your income do you invest?
- What are your average returns?
- How do you manage emotions?
- What is the #1 key takeaway my audience can apply to their investment strategy today?
- Where can the audience reach you?
Category 3) If you work in venture capital or private equity, I will ask a lot of these questions:
- What is your background?
- When did you start your firm?
- What type of companies do you invest in?
- What funding round do you focus on? (Seed, Series A, Series B, etc)
- What was one of your biggest wins?
- What was one of your biggest losses?
- Can you talk about lessons learned?
- When founders are looking to raise capital, what are the key actions they should take before they meet with an investor?
- What are good questions startup founders should ask investors?
- What is the #1 key takeaway my audience can use today?
- Where can the audience reach you?
Category 4) If you have a service business, I will ask a lot of these questions:
- When did you start your company?
- Why did you start this company?
- What services do you provide?
- What type of companies do you serve?
- How do you market your business?
- How do you handle time management?
- How many employees do you have?
- Do you have a passive income stream besides your service income stream?
- How do you charge? Project fee, monthly fee, profit sharing, etc?
- How much do you charge?
- How do you handle billing? Invoicing platform with credit/debit or check?
- What was your revenue one year ago?
- What is your revenue today?
- Since most service businesses can’t be sold (If they do, it’s maybe 1X EBITDA), what is your investment strategy? In other words, how are you leveraging compound interest?
Rapid Fire Round: This is a fun round where we learn more about you.
- What is your favorite podcast?
- What is a recent book you read and would recommend?
- What is your favorite movie?
- What is the worst advice you ever received?
- What is the best advice you ever received?
- If you could go back in time to give your younger self advice, what age would you visit and what would you say?