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Finding Startup Developers - First Email Contact

SoCal CTO

Here is the most recent version of an all too common email inquiry from a startup founder. The above email is SO BAD that I feel compelled to treat this email as a special case so maybe I can help other founders before they send this email. Startup and Founder Backgrounds This is a cold email. Get me interested.

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Can you defend your pricing niche against your competition?

Berkonomics

There can be nothing more important in your business planning that selecting the proper pricing niche, making your story clear using that niche, and the defending your position against the competition. Email readers, continue here…] WalMart is known for lowest prices, often for identical merchandise found in other stores for more.

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Meet Our Startup of the Year Competition Semifinalists: Picking Duck

Tech.Co

Among the participants that applied for the online competitions, only a progressed into the semi-finals. Tech.Co: What was the road like leading up to your initial pitch for the competition? Celebrate Conference in October. Climbing the ranks for our Western Region, Picking Duck was one of two semi-final winners.

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Should you battle the dragon? Or just avoid the encounter?

Berkonomics

So, when do we know which course to take? And if that new strategy is proved to be true, the five-hundred-pound gorilla in that niche just moved out of the way of many of its smaller competitors, leaving a market that will surely see a scramble for new competition in the near future. At least that is the conventional wisdom.

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Is it YOU or your great plan?

Berkonomics

Email readers, continue here…] That reality is a tough one for the professional investor, almost as tough as for those entrepreneurs who lose their businesses. Of course, you could be the exception. And it’s a tough test at that. None of this is to say that an inexperienced entrepreneur cannot lead a great new business.

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How good a leader are you?

Berkonomics

For larger or later stage companies, it could be to increase market share through acquisitions with the attendant elimination of competition or increase in a company’s reach. Email readers, continue here…] More importantly, what if you as a leader haven’t a stated goal for your enterprise?

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Do you take those loyal, key customers for granted?

Berkonomics

If the presenting CEO is honest in the analysis of actual time spent each week, it is often revealing to all to see how many hours are spent turning inward toward meetings, operational management, or responding to emails or texts sent by others. Of course, they do. Of course, it is. But, do your customer know that they want?

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