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Effective Email Introductions or Why Blind Intros Suck

InfoChachkie

A well-intentioned colleague introduced me to a stranger via email, without first confirming with me that the intro was welcomed. When I am not complaining, I strive to be a mensch and I pride myself in helping as many people as my time and talents allow. The Art Of The Email Matchmaking. It just happened again.

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

Still, if you've not heard these questions from a developer, they are not helping you as much as they should. Do you need to round trip an email to validate the email? Cloudsponge for email invites to large group? Do they generate emails or other external notifications? Do you need to provide RSS?

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

Still, if you've not heard these questions from a developer, they are not helping you as much as they should. Do you need to round trip an email to validate the email? Cloudsponge for email invites to large group? Do they generate emails or other external notifications? Do you need to provide RSS?

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What The Heck Does “Traction” Really Mean To A VC?

InfoChachkie

As noted in 6 Steps To Raising Venture Capital , as you accomplish your previously communicated milestones, send your target VCs a brief email update (think eye-candy graphics and charts, not dense text). The cadence of such communications should be as consistent as is practical, with a tone that is always be positive and polite.

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Why Startups Need to Blog (and what to talk about …)

Both Sides of the Table

This is a post to help you figure out why you should write and what you should talk about. I had been reading Brad Feld’s blog & Fred Wilson’s blog for a couple of years and found them very helpful to my thinking so I honestly just thought I was giving back to the community. By definition, you read blogs.

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Here are 10 Tips from BuzzFeed to Make Your Content Go Viral

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I recently had the pleasure of spending an hour with Jon Steinberg, president of Buzzfeed , a company who focuses on helping media companies make their content go viral. I’ll write a post on how to give feedback to employees and then I’ll get emails from people telling me they forwarded it to their whole team.

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Eucalyptus Systems CEO Marten Mickos Shares His Secrets Of Startup Success

InfoChachkie

As an early executive at MySQL, he helped build the company into the world's most used open source database. If you admit it, you will have others helping you. They don't mind helping you because they need help where they are weak.". Marten has enjoyed a celebrated entrepreneurial career. Share and Enjoy.

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