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How to Ask for Help, Favors and Intros

Both Sides of the Table

I get these frequently via Twitter, Facebook or email. I provided my email address and he sent me a 688 word email (e.g. I felt I had committed so I read and responded to the email. SHORT : Whether you know the person or not – if you’re asking for help, a favor or an intro – keep your email VERY short.

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My Pal Dave: A Triumph of Substance Over Style

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I told him only 2 weeks ago when we were in London together that I wanted to write a blog post that has been in my head for 2 years. Dave is terrible with email. He’s so bad that his email auto-responder tells you he likely won’t email you back. He doesn’t email you. I’ve been told so. Brawling (metaphorically).

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Tips on Pitching in Person

This is going to be BIG.

You should have a copy of your deck in multiple formats, particularly PDF, on your own machine, on a USB drive, and on the web (like in your Dropbox). Sometimes, and I do this all the time, an investor will just ask you to talk to them about your company and email the slides later. Those stand out. First off, technology sucks.

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Why The Haters are Wrong About Growth Hacking

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His early experience was at LogMeIn and then he went on to help Xobni, DropBox, LookOut and EventBrite to name a few companies I’m sure you’ve heard of. There’s an article making the rounds in tech circles titled “ Growth Hacking is Bull ” written by Muhammad Saleem. I’d strongly encourage you to read it.

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Some Tips to Improve the Civility on Hacker News

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Paul Graham and the folks over at YCombinator have done much to reenergize early-stage entrepreneurship and encourage the creation of many new and innovative startups including DropBox, Posterous, Loopt, Justin.TV, Scribd and many others. They also gave us Hacker News , which for me was a welcome addition for discovering tech stories.

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YC makes a Product Hunt, Product Hunt makes an a16z, a16z makes a YC

TechCrunch

The famed accelerator, which has seeded the likes of Instacart, Coinbase, OpenSea and Dropbox, invites users to vote for newly launched startups “to help them climb up the leaderboard, try out product demos and learn about the founding team,” it said in a blog post. The overlap isn’t isolated.

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These 5 strategies made us $10M+ EACH

OkDork

It can be as simple as a template, checklist, or piece of email copy. Some did okay. A handful propelled our business to new heights. Today, I’ll be revealing the 5 strategies that made us over $10M EACH. Let’s gooo! 1- Use Prefluencers When we started AppSumo, I paid Tim Ferriss $5,000 a month to sponsor his website. Ignore views.

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