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b'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.
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\\nAmong the topics covered in this free-wheeling, wide-ranging discussion:
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\\n \\t* How Akshat started off in WordPress, what he did before and his future plans.
\\n \\t* How, as a lone founder with no previous experience of WordPress, he grew BlogVault to a company of 13.
\\n \\t* How he managed to juggle a demanding day job with working on his WordPress startup every evening.
\\n \\t* What he doesn\\u2019t like about the name of his company.
\\n \\t* 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.
\\n \\t* How to deal with the pressure of being a small fish in a rapidly-changing business environment.
\\n \\t* Why it is worth doubling down on the WordPress market.
\\n \\t* The quality of Internet service in India.
\\n \\t* Is India a scary place to visit? Will a taxi driver punch you in the face and take your Macbook?
\\n \\t* What are the best Indian destinations for digital nomads?
\\n \\t* How Akshat\\u2019s new malware protection service, Malcare, grew naturally from BlogVault.
\\n \\t* What is the difference between Blogvault\\u2019s malware removal feature and Malcare, his new service.
\\n \\t* Why he should have released Malcare six months ago.
\\n \\t* Donnacha\\u2019s suggestions to improve the marketing of Malcare.
\\n \\t* How Jean met Akshat, and what most impressed him.
\\n \\t* The importance of traveling to meet your customers in person.
\\n \\t* Bringing the atmosphere of WordCamps back home to India.
\\n \\t* Gaining big customers such as WPEngine, Godaddy, LiquidWeb, Pantheon, FlyWheel, Cloudways, WPServeur and Savvii.nl.
\\n \\t* Advantages of running backup and malware-detection tasks through a service, rather than with WordPress plugins on your own hosting.
\\n \\t* Why continual, incremental backups are vital for eCommerce websites.
\\n \\t* Is it better\\xa0to be good at tech or good at marketing?
\\n \\t* Finding good programmers in Bangalore, and how to retain them.
\\n \\t* Why, despite oversaturation in the WordPress market, there is always room for another good product.
\\n \\t* Why Akshat is pretty sure that one of your WordPress sites has malware that you are unaware of.
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\\nhttps://blogvault.net/
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\\nBlogVault
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\\nMalcare
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\\nMigrate Guru - Free WordPress plugin
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\\nblogVault (@blogVault) | Twitter
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\\nAkshat Choudhary (@akshatc) | Twitter
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\\nhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/akshatchoudhary/
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\\nhttps://blogvault.net/
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