“When I Invest In Entrepreneurs, I Want Entrepreneurs Who Are Willing To Walk Through Walls” – with Andy Liu
Andy Liu is the guy that past Mixergy guests recommended I interview because he helped them build their businesses.
When I interviewed Ben Huh, he said that Andy recommended that he buy ICanHazCheeseBurger.com, and that Andy both invested in the business and helped him strategize. Neil Patel told me that Andy isn’t just his business advisor, but a life mentor too.
In this interview, you’ll see why they rave about Andy. He explained how, early in his career, he rescued his startup from near collapse, built it up and eventually sold it to aQuantive. He told us how he negotiates lower rates on expenses that most entrepreneurs passively accept. He told us the advice he gives the entrepreneurs he backs. And he told us how he’s growing his audience at BuddyTV.
Andy Liu is a serial entrepreneur and angel investor. As an entrepreneur, he’s the Co-Founder and CEO of BuddyTV. Prior to that, he founded NetConversions, which was sold to aQuantive. As an investor, he backed Pet Holdings (which owns viral sites like I Can Has Cheeseburger and FAIL Blog), Optify and Inkd.
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Andrew: Instead of telling you again how great Haystack is, I invited my friends at Hash Rocket to shoot this video.
Andy Liu: I got into web design from a very early age. I was always fascinated by the Internet, you know, dial upon modems and all that. I brought the complete idiot Skype HTML to my school, my reading school.
Female: Zen is my passion. I love it. It doesn’t feel like a job. It’s fun. I can be as creative as I want, start with a blank canvass and make something out of nothing.
Andy Liu: The greatest gift you could give me is an opportunity, and that’s exactly what Hash Rocket gave me. The opportunity was to take some of the best programmers and developers in the world and then build a design team to match that quality. The part that I like most about being a designer at Hash Rocket is definitely creating an entire application from start to finish, and once...
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