Learning how to ask questions is an essential skill for startup founders

Mercedes Bent Contributor Mercedes Bent is a partner at Lightspeed where she invests in consumer, edtech and fintech companies. For many of us, learning to ask questions was a matter of the five W’s: who, what, where, when, why (and how). As I interviewed founders about the most valuable learning resources that allowed them to grow into the leaders they are today, I realized that many of them leaned heavily on carefully crafted approaches to asking questions. In all the interviews, inquiry was by far the most cited learning process….

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