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What Should You Send a VC Before Your Meeting?

Both Sides of the Table

As a VC and former entrepreneur let me offer you some advice. Remember that the goal of an email to a VC or an introduction from a trusted mutual connection is simply to get you the meeting. Almost every idea worthy of funding has 5 amazing teams trying to do the same thing and execution and team determines the winners.

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Why Most of Your Assumptions About Phone Calls are Wrong

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If you follow the tech media you would be subject to a lot of narrative biases that are completely off base – and this includes the value of email and phone calls. I’m sure you’ve heard the meme that “email is dead” – if fact if you Google it you’ll find a long list of articles that will mislead you.

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20 Best Free and Paid Tools for Startups in 2023

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Launching and growing a startup is one of the biggest missions an entrepreneur can undertake. If you manage remote or hybrid teams, RingCentral provides the best web conferencing software we've reviewed. The email marketing platform lets you create tailored email content with templates and a drag-and-drop builder.

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Announcing a Deal I’ve Wanted to Talk About for a Year

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And I had been telling my partners for a couple of years that I thought Ethan was one of the more talented entrepreneurs I had come across in San Francisco. We generally have a policy to only fund entrepreneurs once the first version of a product has shipped or it near to shipping. We like to be able to see the concept.

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Interview with Scott Grimes, Stackin

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Scott Grimes: Ultimately, we are a text messaging platform build on top of Twilio. You have lots of control over it, unlike email, and we think it's a great way to get people to engage, and to ultimately improve their finance. We curate the best products within each category of finance. Scott Grimes: There's a litany of things.

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Get to Know Richard de Silva of Highland Capital

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I took the opportunity this past week to publish summary notes of some of the VCs and entrepreneurs I had interviewed on This Week in VC. One of my goals in doing the show was not only to educate entrepreneurs but also to put a human face on many of the VCs in our industry as VCs can be hard to get to know. (5:00 5:00 – 5:55).

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Interview with Dave Fink and Jonathan Neddenriep, Postie

socalTECH

Dave Fink: Postie is a building a technology platform with a mission of making direct mail marketing behave as easily and dynamically as your favorite, programmatic channels. We build on those audiences, and find others that look alike. I spent 18 yars, and Jonathan a new less, building quite a few consumer Internet businesses.

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