A few years ago, my PR company insisted that I train with a coach for an interview they set up for me on GMA.
“Why?” I said. “I spent a year of my life building, launching and talking about this site. Isn’t that enough preparation?”That reminds me when once ago I have worked for a PR guy, actually a corporate communication expert. He ran an expensive training program for CEOs, corporate reps and politicians, which was not only a basic presentation/interview course but included simulated crisis situations with journalists, etc. The funny thing is all of that big shots also thought that professional experience was sufficient to do well in any interview, but during some stages of the course, many of them ended up crying. No matter how much experience, power or money they had, once approached by a pro journalist, they were helpless.
Although a startup interview is not a crisis situation, I believe it's a good advice to get a training before the first one.
