Top Hat Monocle: Don’t Make The Easiest Mistake In Building A Startup Nobody Needs – with Mike Silagadze

Mike Silagadze, Top Hat Monocle, Customer Acquisition, Hiring, Scaling, System

How can customers show you how to build a multi-million dollar business that they love?

Mike Silagadze is here to tell the story of how he built his company based on conversations with his customers. His company, Top Hat Monocole, creates classroom response systems that engages students and provides professors with real time feedback on student understanding.

Mike Silagadze

Top Hat Monocle

Mike Silagadze is the Founder of Top Hat Monocle, a web and mobile-based classroom response system that engages students and provides professors with the real-time feedback on student understanding.

 

Andrew: Coming up, today’s entrepreneur had an idea that depended on his users having iPod Touches. He wanted to give 30 iPod Touches to his users. Problem is he didn’t have enough money to buy 30 iPod Touches, not nearly, not even close. What would you do in that situation? Check out the one thing today’s guest did to get those iPod touches. It’s kind of a scrappy story that pretty much you can only get here on Mixergy.

Also, check out this secret thing that today’s entrepreneur did when he raised money from investors. While they were talking he did this thing. I’m going to ask him about it. He was a little reluctant. You’ll see it on his face. A little reluctant to talk about it but this is Mixergy. This is where entrepreneurs talk about the stuff that they really did to build their businesses.

Finally, why are people who care about you sometimes the worst users, worst customers to have? You’ll see what happened to...

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