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  1. What AI-powered software app would you gladly buy - today - if it existed? What problem does it solve for you? Can be web, mobile, desktop, etc.

  2. What has been your experience with it? What were your initial goals, and did Premium help? What features did you discover that were valuable?

  3. Or anyone you've known? It's one of the first things you learn, at least via US-centric entrepreneur/VC lessons: get a warm intro from someone they know. Just because they have an office or a public e-mail or LinkedIn,…

  4. I'm looking to re-brand our company image and name. Essentially for about a year it's been a generic placeholder that we always meant to change, something like "XYZ Automation Solutions" I'm looking for a meaningful…

  5. Scenario: you're not in the Valley, or if you are, you just don't know any investors, and neither do any of your immediate first connections on LinkedIn or FB or real life for that matter. And you're raising a seed…

  6. YC has startups focus on weekly growth on e.g. revenue or users from what I understand. How do hardware startups, that may not be in the market yet, fit into this? What do/should they be focusing on week by week?

  7. What's the worst response/outcome you've ever gotten during your sales process, or perhaps with an existing customer? How did you learn and overcome from the experience? What did you do differently in the future?

  8. Say I have a hunch that a particular over-hyped, but not publically-traded startup, is destined for failure. How can I profit from this prediction? Creative answers welcome :)

  9. Let's say you're 40+, interviewing for a senior software role with a 26-year-old CEO who just raised 15 million from a16z... How do you sell yourself? How do you stand out?

  10. Wake up time, hygiene habits, foods and drinks, media consumption, whatever - what's your best morning routine? Can be whatever makes you happiest, most productive, least stressed, etc. How has it affected your life?

  11. The Risk of Discovery (paulgraham.com)
  12. Charisma / Power (paulgraham.com)
  13. This is something that I'm not so sure how to go about searching: I want to create a list of companies that use a certain industrial tool. Why? Because I'm prototyping a modified/automated version of it and seeing if…