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8 Tips To Get the Most Out of Your Investors and Board

Both Sides of the Table

Email updates frequently. I am on a board that does business with Yahoo! And as Rob points out – if you email members with short updates more frequently they are more up to speed when you do need them to weigh in. Key point – if your emails are as long as my blog posts you’re forked.

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Interview with Michael Kantor, Orgoo

socalTECH

There are a lot of users, with lots of different email and instant messaging accounts, who are finding that there are too many ways to communicate with their friends and associates. People are using email, IM, soc nets like LinkedIn and Facebook, SMS, and video chat -- all of these are really places to communicate.

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Connecting with People and High Level Communication (A TechCrunch Disrupt 2012 Experience)

Tech Zulu Event

Every conference is different. This was my second TCDisrupt conference, however my first attending as press. This was my second TCDisrupt conference, however my first attending as press. I received dozens of long emails each day with press releases, pitches, news and information. Send a very brief follow up email.

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3 Sales Tips for Startups – Creating a Burning Platform

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They generated an enormous amount of inbound leads through PR, email blasts and heavy efforts with analysts such as Gartner Group, IDC, Aberdeen Group, etc. If you’re not ready to buy then you go into an email database. Your goal as a website is to elicit my email address out of me with as little else required as possible.

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Once Upon a Time in Jorts

Eric Greenspan

snack at our desks…or in the conference room! I closed my presentation with an announcement about “ Eric Greenspan’s OSN101 Conferences &# (coming soon) and our new focus to help our customers take advantage of the real-time Internet. 245 people registered, Yahoo! listen to whatever music we want!

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Some Reflections on VC Investment Decisions

Both Sides of the Table

Today we’re in a world where 10 accelerators are bombarding you with emails to meet their 10-15 companies. And there’s conferences. Oh, the conferences. Oh, the conferences. If your favorite angel investor is sending you what looks like a form email it likely is. Web Summit. Fortune Brainstorm.

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I met with an investor, what happens next?

Both Sides of the Table

Plus, now they need to Tweet, use Facebook, attend conferences and keep a blog! So don’t expect an unprompted email or phone call next week. I guess they assume that since I didn’t email or call I must not be interested. Start with a very short thank you email the day after your pitch. Let’s be honest.