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How to Get Busy People to Take Action When You Send an Email

Both Sides of the Table

We all get a lot of email. For important emails we hope for replies or action. If you do the math on the number of inbound emails you get multiplied by the time it would take to read them all and respond to those that expect a reply you would be astounded. Many people ramble in emails. And we send off scores of them, too.

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Tips to Help you Think About Sales at Your Startup

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It’s important enough that I dedicate a tab on my blog to startup sales & marketing. The video link is here and quick time-coded show notes at the end of the post in case you want to jump ahead to just one section. how do you do pipeline reviews? how should a VC do due diligence on sales operations?

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How To Network With Really Busy People

InfoChachkie

Absent a human gatekeeper, you can capture a busy individual''s attention by crafting a compelling and pithy email subject line, voicemail message, Tweet, Quora or Facebook message. Review the company''s press releases, the recipient''s LinkedIn profile, etc. Some people are phone centric, while others reply primarily on email.

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ServiceTitan is LA’s least likely contender to be the next billion-dollar startup

TechCrunch LA

Battery isn’t the only marquee investor to find value in ServiceTitan’s business developing software managing day labor. And as Battery Ventures investor Sanjiv Kalevar noted in a blog post last year , the opportunity for software companies serving blue-collar workers is huge. Indeed, more than 60% of U.S.

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Document Your MVP for a Developer

SoCal CTO

It's the same as when I've created financial models and then have it reviewed by a hard-core CFO, sophisticated investor or similar kind of expert. And in the case of defining mobile/web/software, there is even more variability in terms of form and format. Just make note of it in the document and/or in an email when you send it.

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5 Tips to Becoming a More Customer Centric Organization

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Tim encouraged us to set up a blog and start talking openly about what we were doing as a company and inviting comments. But I had been reading Munjal Shah’s blog about his experiences at Riya (later renamed Like.com) and this openess had an appeal to me. What changed for us was Tim Barker arrived.

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

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Brad on blogging. How did you start blogging? “My My initial desire to blog came from something that’s always been my approach to investing – I’m a nerd and I love to play with the technology and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level.