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Jean Galea and Donnacha MacGloinn, standing in for James Laws this week, go deep into the fascinating story of Akshat Choudhary, founder and CEO of blogvault.net, a WordPress backup service and the most successful WordPress-related business in Bangalore, the Silicon Valley of India.
Among the topics covered in this free-wheeling, wide-ranging discussion:
- How Akshat started off in WordPress, what he did before and his future plans.
- How, as a lone founder with no previous experience of WordPress, he grew BlogVault to a company of 13.
- How he managed to juggle a demanding day job with working on his WordPress startup every evening.
- What he doesn’t like about the name of his company.
- How it felt when a massive competitor launched a very similarly-named product just a week after his, but how it turned out to be a good thing.
- How to deal with the pressure of being a small fish in a rapidly-changing business environment.
- Why it is worth doubling down on the WordPress market.
- The quality of Internet service in India.
- Is India a scary place to visit? Will a taxi driver punch you in the face and take your Macbook?
- What are the best Indian destinations for digital nomads?
- How Akshat’s new malware protection service, Malcare, grew naturally from BlogVault.
- What is the difference between Blogvault’s malware removal feature and Malcare, his new service.
- Why he should have released Malcare six months ago.
- Donnacha’s suggestions to improve the marketing of Malcare.
- How Jean met Akshat, and what most impressed him.
- The importance of traveling to meet your customers in person.
- Bringing the atmosphere of WordCamps back home to India.
- Gaining big customers such as WPEngine, Godaddy, LiquidWeb, Pantheon, FlyWheel, Cloudways, WPServeur and Savvii.nl.
- Advantages of running backup and malware-detection tasks through a service, rather than with WordPress plugins on your own hosting.
- Why continual, incremental backups are vital for eCommerce websites.
- Is it better to be good at tech or good at marketing?
- Finding good programmers in Bangalore, and how to retain them.
- Why, despite oversaturation in the WordPress market, there is always room for another good product.
- Why Akshat is pretty sure that one of your WordPress sites has malware that you are unaware of.
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