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Comments are the New Black

Both Sides of the Table

I recently wrote a post about how to get access to people at conferences and how to connect with people on social networks. Occasionally I’ll get an LinkedIn email from somebody saying, “I see you know such-and-such, would you mind connecting me? I’ve been thinking a lot about comments lately. Powerful stuff.

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Venture Capital Q&A Session

Both Sides of the Table

We also discussed how to deal with pricing in angel rounds and a strategy I advocated in my “social proof&# blog post , which is to price your initial angel round really low and get in the best possible angels as a way to get momentum in the company. We will continue to do more of this. A: It’s not best. This is wrong.

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

Both Sides of the Table

Huge thank you to Steve De Long for the write up. Huge thank you to Steve De Long for the write up. Brad on blogging. How did you start blogging? “My Brad Feld is a fountain of knowledge & wisdom. Or, as always, summary notes available below. RSS was something that had appeared.” “….I

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Email etiquette: How to ask people for things and actually get a response

The Zapier Blog

Emails are no longer just competing with other emails for your reader's attention. But that doesn't mean you should abandon emails altogether. Let AI write your business emails Learn how Emails can be an incredibly effective communication tool—if you know how to craft attention-grabbing ones.

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B2B email marketing: Proven strategies and examples

The Zapier Blog

I'd been working in email marketing for quite a while before I took on my first B2B campaign. What I didn't realize is that minor tweaks to generalized email marketing tactics aren't enough to create a successful B2B campaign.

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A Weird and Wacky Approach To Angel Investing

OnStartups

Which, as it turns out is a highly underrated thing (more on that in another blog post). There was one simple requirement: You had to be able to afford the risk and that was simply measured by how much money you had -- or how much money you made. So, all I had to do to become an angel investor was to start writing checks.

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How to find a Technical Co-Founder for your Startup

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Think how much faster you will be able to go, and therefore have more runway to iterate to product-market fit. Unfortunately, more often than not, these approaches have been disappointing, prompting me to write this list of tips to help founders win over a someone like me. How can you validate your idea?

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