Thursday, July 23
Day one with Anil Gupta
Coffee table chat
- Couldn't find the entrance to WeWork
- how have the last 6 months been?
- what I've learned
Lunch at Italian place underneath
- Couldn't find the restaurant and it was right underneath us
- Bit by mosquitoes
- Indian developers looking for jobs
- What can we build and use their talent
Post-Lunch Whiteboard
Classic City Hire
- Huge conference room because Anil booked a conference room at the wrong WeWork
- I walked through my entire sales process through the actual build stage
- Three options for new hire: (a) hire someone to take the process from Sales to Go Live; (b) Hire someone to take the site from me after Discovery and through Go Live; (c) Hire someone to work under me to do the whole process, but I remain the face of the process.
- How many websites can a standard person do within the course of a month? Right now, this year, my clip has been one per month, but I've been doing a LOT of other things as well. I think that: One would be easy, Two would still be easy, Three website/month would get a bit harder, and Four would be the cap.
Anil's events
- Interest in meeting "what's next" founders
- Starting 2-hour cocktail party in January
- Knows 10-20 people who may be interested in coming to party (+ 2-3 connectors)
- Start this now so that when he's ready to do something big (like retreat), the list is built.
- However, agency founders is where his passion is right now. What problem do they need to solve?
Wiser dinner
- Went to have dinner with Leah Wiser and Becca Wiser
- When we left, Leah tried to navigate us around to the metro and got us turned around a few times.