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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. We have been reading about the LA CTO Forum and we thought it would be a great place to find him/her. I've written before about having an Initial Conversation with a Potential CTO. Startup and Founder Backgrounds This is a cold email.

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Generative AI – The End of Empty Textboxes

TechEmpower

My time with TFA instilled in me a deep commitment to education, inspiring me to dedicate my life to guiding young minds through the world of mathematics. If having an LLM write the whole blurb seems like too much, we could also fill our empty textbox with a writing prompt: I know writing about yourself can be tough.

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What if you see juicy competitor information?

Berkonomics

Most CEOs want to obtain information about their competitors in the most subtle and non-obvious ways. A fair example In my former industry, I became an informal centralized source for knowledge about the revenues of each of the many competitors, with a special skill for asking just the right questions to obtain the information.

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Do you need an advisory board?

Berkonomics

How about the size of the group? How about using the names for marketing, fundraising? Advisors fill blind spots in the corporate knowledge base and guide you in areas where you feel you have a personal weakness. How about “chairman” of the advisory board? Create a formal advisor agreement listing expectations.

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A Guide to Using Authority & Social Proof in Fund Raising

Both Sides of the Table

I was excited to read it because Robert Cialdini had been a speaker at Google when my wife worked there and she told me that many members of the senior management team at Google had been raving about his work. Social proof is defined as “looking for others to guide our decision&# and it can be both explicit and implicit.

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20 Best Free and Paid Tools for Startups in 2023

Tech.Co

In this guide: Free Business Tools Best Communication Tools Best Cybersecurity Tools Best Project Management Tools Best Marketing Tools Best Financial Tools Best HR tools Best Sales Tools Next Steps: Moving Forward With a Solution Best Free Business Tools for Startups Not every startup will have a budget for smart software.

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WTF is Traction? A 6-Step Relationship Guide to VC

Both Sides of the Table

Now there are some firms that have strict rules about not funding pre-revenue companies – that’s different. Traction really is about building a relationship with a VC over time and showing them that you can move the ball forward. Funding is about developing a relationship over time. VC’s are the same.