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Re: HN, Remember you said go out and talk to people? I did: InsidersTalk.com

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Brilliant idea! Now if you can add content indexing (i.e. a sort of ToC) for each interview, that will be just purely awesome!

That's a very good idea, thank you. I think I'll do it.

Keyword tagging can be great for SEO if you do it right.

Re: HN, Remember you said go out and talk to people? I did: InsidersTalk.com

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Love the concept. Looks like Ask Me Anything from reddit - yet better.

I would replace the blog description immediately, though; it might have been five years ago when the internet was new and everything, but "things" and "stuff" in descriptions is like nails on a blackboard to me.

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Love the concept. Looks like Ask Me Anything from reddit - yet better. I would replace the blog description immediately, though; it might have been five years ago when the internet was new and everything, but "things" and "stuff" in descriptions is like nails on a blackboard to me.

In fact, IAmI is where I found 2 of the 3 interviewees so far. Any suggestions on description?

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Love the concept. Looks like Ask Me Anything from reddit - yet better. I would replace the blog description immediately, though; it might have been five years ago when the internet was new and everything, but "things" and "stuff" in descriptions is like nails on a blackboard to me.

In fact, IAmI is where I found 2 of the 3 interviewees so far. Any suggestions on description?

Hmm, when I first saw the website, I thought something along the lines of being at a dinner party sitting next to the most awesome guy with a story to tell. It also reminds me of how David Foster Wallace overcame his phobia of going to parties; he used his love for learning and told himself that there is something to be learnt from everyone.

On another note, you should create a separate Twitter feed specifically for news and updates pursuant to the siate.

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How often will interviews be posted? Weekly? Bi-monthly? As often as you can get content? In any event, I've subscribed to your RSS.

For now it's weekly. The next one is scheduled for Friday and I'm going to post it on Monday. Hopefully, I will be able to do it even more often.

Make sure you always have two or more interviews ready, before you decide to publish more often. In case of the likely event that you run out of mojo for a while, or force majeure.

Re: HN, Remember you said go out and talk to people? I did: InsidersTalk.com

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Good job Roman, I enjoyed Mallette's interview. I'm not sure if having a completely heterogeneous set of guests is a good idea, rather than focusing on smaller niches. This way I feel like there are low chances that I'd be interested inyour next guest. On a positive note, the simple layout looks really effective to me.

P.S: I know it's a bit off-topic, but knowing Roman is Russian, I'm impressed by his american accent, I wonder how he got to achieve that. I'm Italian, I have lived a bit in UK in the past, and now when I speak English I sound like the Queen on crack, and there's no apparent way to fix my pronunciation.

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nice concept. what's your biz model if you have one?

The business model is to get some traction with an interesting content, then figure out the business model.

Fusion Ads or The Deck Network might very well want to place their ads on his site.

Re: HN, Remember you said go out and talk to people? I did: InsidersTalk.com

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Good job Roman, I enjoyed Mallette's interview. I'm not sure if having a completely heterogeneous set of guests is a good idea, rather than focusing on smaller niches. This way I feel like there are low chances that I'd be interested inyour next guest. On a positive note, the simple layout looks really effective to me. P.S: I know it's a bit off-topic, but knowing Roman is Russian, I'm impressed by his american accen…

I think you never know what you may find interesting. I don't really want to find a niche. Mixergy covers founders, but for me it's more exciting to talk to just different people, not necessarily entrepreneurs. That's the point.

About the accent. As you can see in some of the interviews, it's not always perfect. But in my opinion the thing that matters is that people understand you perfectly and enjoy talking to you. That's what I'm trying to achieve. Having a nice accent is nothing if you say stupid things. So, don't worry about it?

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