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JULY 29, 2010

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. I have a link on my blog to the angel deals I’ve done, which is here.

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JANUARY 13, 2011

I wrote the summary notes in this blog post. And did I really just try to drop an SAT word into my blog post? In reading the comments on Bijan’s blog and having discussed this so many times, I know some entrepreneurs only want to talk with VCs that think that Powerpoint causes leprosy. Here’s how you add tags.

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JULY 20, 2010

I promise not to turn this blog into a personal self-help blog! And then I started reading the International Herald Tribune lest I miss my daily dose of international politics. And thus the reason for today’s blog. Tags: Startup Advice. Yesterday I wrote about the importance of choosing happiness.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 21, 2010

I raised $3k last year through my blog via Donor’s Choose. Tags: Politics Random Stuff. The funny thing is, I actually do a fair amount of volunteering and charitable giving. I run the Brooklyn Bridge Park Kayaking program , which covers kids *and* the environment. I give to my schools.

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DECEMBER 7, 2009

But so that you finish reading my post first I’ll give you the summary version – when approaching somebody at a show be polite / respectful of time, try to be introduced if possible and never assume the person remembers who you are. Then I get people sending me Twitter comments, blog comments and tons & tons of email intros.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 24, 2010

4) Be persistent, but not a pain If you e-mail an investor or someone intros you, and you don’t hear back, just hit them again politely with, “Just want to make sure you got this.” It’s not a function of my interest at all, so if you want to chat with me or any other investor, just politely keep at it until you get a yes or no.

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MARCH 10, 2010

When I started blogging I had an idea. Professional, polite, helpful and hard-working. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Start-up Advice Startup Advice. I would take all of the one-on-one conversations that I have with entrepreneurs from the things I’ve learned and just write them up for anybody to read. But resolute.

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AUGUST 25, 2009

This is part of my blog series “ Pitching a VC.&#. In the best case they might prefer to ask you questions but you didn’t prompt them and they’re being polite (although this is less likely in VC who are not known for being wallflowers !). View the question as engagement!

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JANUARY 10, 2010

I wrote a blog post related to this called Is it Time to Earn or to Learn? He had 2 kids and seemed to stay late for mostly political reasons (or maybe he enjoyed it more than he enjoyed being home?). Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Start-up Advice Startup Advice startup technology vc. So in that context let me use it.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 18, 2023

For more details on our process, read the full rundown of how we select apps to feature on the Zapier blog. Twitter-like @mentions let you tag people, with Outlook automatically adding their email addresses in the To: field, which can come in handy if you're often adding coworkers to emails halfway through writing them.

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DECEMBER 14, 2009

I wanted to also post the series here to have it as a resource on my blog for future entrepreneurs who stop by. As an entrepreneur people who aren’t going to respond to you and it’s your responsibility to politely and assertively stay on people’s radar screen. If you haven’t spent time over there you should.

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MARCH 13, 2010

As a political junkie one of my favorite things to do was to watch Question Time. And there is relationship between debating and blogging. I started blogging in 2005 and then re-started blogging about a year ago. The most important experience I have in blogging is the debate it encourages. Let me explain.

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MAY 1, 2010

To understand what most VC’s want between board meetings I think it’s useful to start with a quote from Mark Solon ’s blog for which I’m in complete agreement (along with agreeing with his entire post, which was brave, honest and accurate ). Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Start-up Advice Startup Advice.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2010

So I thought I’d blog about one of the topics we discussed at breakfast – the phone call. You can do this too early in the call and you can’t be an interview factory, but polite questions relevant to your topic are appropriate. Tags: Startup Advice. I plan to do this with the next Launchpad LA class.

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OCTOBER 10, 2010

I know that I make grammar and spelling errors in this blog but I promise it’s through speed of writing, typing and publishing and not through a lack of knowledge. From a young age I loved writing, which fueled my interests in reading, in politics and one day in blogging. Tags: Non Tech.

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