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But what has really killed me is email. I live in email hell. And for the last few evenings I decided to get through email rather than blog. I’m always so completely behind on email. I have a love / hate relationship with email. Email is a chore. People expect too much when they email you.
Intros.They’re the lifeblood of networking – the currency of mavens. And in most cases I would heed Fred Wilson’s advice about the “double opt-in” email for intros – where you ask for permission before green-lighting an unsolicited introductions. They are your route to angel money.
A well-intentioned colleague introduced me to a stranger via email, without first confirming with me that the intro was welcomed. Despite my occasional ranting, (see The Worst Networking Call Ever ), I like people and I enjoy making new connections. The Art Of The Email Matchmaking. Don’t get me wrong. Share and Enjoy.
I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). What are the big trends that will drive the next phase of social networks? And so it goes with social networking. The Past (1985-2002).
I just got off the phone with someone who wanted my help getting networked into the Santa Barbara business community. Little did I know when the call began, that it would end up being the worst networking call in which I have ever partaken. During our email exchange before our call, I had to ask him what he wanted to talk about.
It was a rather hapless soul who was seeking my help networking within Santa Barbara''s startup community. In the fifteen minutes that we chatted, the caller made some shocking networking mistakes. During our email exchange before our call, I had to ask the caller what he wanted. Fortunately, this particular call was brief.
Even writing this could hurt me. I writing as a friend. I use you more than email now. I hate email, by the way. Hell, even cable operators do that when they have disputes with networks. If you shut off the network you screw your users, like me. I don’t want that. Twitter, I’m a friend.
They get pissed off if a senior executive at Google doesn’t take a meeting with them, if people are late to their meetings or if they have emails that are unreturned. The 70% of entrepreneurs that simply can’t get past an un-responded-to email. Well, for starters you need to be a great networker.
Our profile this morning is with Network Automation , a Los Angeles company competing in the IT automation market. Southern California--despite the lack of huge, name brand firms-- has a significant number of enterprise software companies, of which Network Automation is just one. The traditional way to handle that is to write code.
It should stick in your head as a metaphor for networking. You send them update emails. Help them write other stories. One day they’ll write yours. 50 coffee meetings. For getting outside of your comfort zone. For starting relationships today that won’t pay off for a year. You invite them to cocktail parties.
This post covers the first out of 10 that I’ll write about. The moderator asked the question, “if an entrepreneur writes an email to a VC and doesn’t hear back what should they do?&# This VC responded, “Move on. If you fold at the first un-returned email what hope to you have as an entrepreneur?
In writing anything positive about any of the companies I’m not suggesting that it means that I prefer them to any of their competitors. Also, some of the deals I write about I have actually seen as part of their fund raising process. Collaboration in business starts and ends with email. Really!). Other deals.
On Facebook (and nearly all social networks that preceded it) the relationship was always reciprocal – if I accept your invitation to follow me then I have to follow you. Twitter, by contrast, started as an open platform where people let anybody see what they were writing. Facebook. So why is this important for businesses?
In my last post I pointed out that many of the media commentators who have criticized the YouTube video network companies as not having strong businesses were mistaken. Much of network television can cost $100,000 / minute to produce. It’s why many talent agencies or ad networks struggle to get scale advantages.
In addition, the discipline of producing it, like writing a business plan, will help you immensely in understanding the key elements that drive you and your business. I often hear the excuse that writing a book takes precious time away from building and running your business, which you cannot afford.
Over the past 12 months, I've had roughly 284,000 people come visit that site and get exposed to things I write. Be interested in what they write. Plan out how you will interact with what they are writing. Use Feedburner or Feedblitz for Email. Send email to other bloggers when you post a really good post.
How did Sarah Penna create one of YouTube''s most successful networks? As noted in YouTubers Come Of Age , YouTube has progressed from its initial incarnation as a repository of random videos to a number of vertically focused, professionally managed networks. which evolved into the biggest YouTube network, called Maker Studios. .
msuster for me) the message you write appears in my @msuster inbox on Twitter.com and on any of the desktop or mobile clients. If you truly want it to be private stick to DM or email (or better yet … telephone!). Tags: Social Media social networking technology Twitter. The basics: 1. When you use the @username (e.g.
As executives we’re all seemingly accessible at any moment to anybody via email, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn or Text. It’s why sometimes I respond to emails in 5 minutes at other times I go dark for a week at a time. Recruiting, business development, shipping product, writing blog posts, networking … it’s all the same.
Well, aside from it showing discipline and intelligence – we always get flooded with emails when we recruit and when you have to manage volume you need to go for obvious filters. Plus, show my you can write! I’m already 2 weeks late in writing this blog post as my partners keep reminding me. What is the timeframe?
I recently wrote a post about how to get access to people at conferences and how to connect with people on social networks. I got to thinking more broadly about social networks and the real-time web. Facebook has much more value to me as a networking tool. I’ve been thinking a lot about comments lately.
As a teenager he experimented with writing & producing his own rap music and received a lot of feedback from elders that he had a talent with words. In his early career he realized the importance of email lists. His email list became his power. He would occasionally give away free music in exchange for email addresses.
My email back to him was a version of. VCs will spend over a year networking just to position around one founder or one deal, and if they lose it, it’s gone.” I got an email recently from a VC who had invested in a company a small amount in a seed round. I’ve seen you write a $10 million check before.
Most designers, at least the ones I know, hate to network and rarely do it. The key to networking in the tech world is you do not need to be the best in the world, you just need to be passionate, willing to learn and in a lot of cases be the best designer or developer that people know. Networking through social media.
This is part of my ongoing series “ Start-up Lessons. &# If you want to subscribe to my RSS feed please click here or to get my blog by email click here. I’m reluctant to put it into writing because people get so passionate about this issue and many disagree. Register a company.
I recently received an email from a former student in which he described how he was able to secure a lunch meeting with a high-profile entrepreneur who is operating multiple ventures in parallel. I wasn''t surprised by Benedikt''s email, as I was aware of his confidence and politely aggressive personality. Benedikt Scholz.
Today we’re in a world where 10 accelerators are bombarding you with emails to meet their 10-15 companies. Of course these are great places to network with other investors, meet great entrepreneurs and keep your connections strong with senior execs at larger companies like Yahoo!, And there’s conferences. Web Summit.
They network with other VC’s, other startups CEOs, larger industry players, journalists, potential executives looking for their next jobs, service providers such as venture debt providers, etc. But we barely get through all our email let alone log into online spreadsheets. They will likely forward your email to their partners.
Email readers, continue here.] They told me about their expertise and their network of contacts, and their early customers, and the promising results so far. They wanted to come to pitch to my angel network. David Steakley, a past President of the Houston Angel Network, is a reformed management consultant.
Vivek Wadwha - Campus Entrepreneurship , November 19, 2010 Best Practices for Introduction Emails - Israel Venture Capital 2.0 , March 25, 2010 Weekend Reading - The Mogul Mom , October 1, 2010 Make informal advisors part of the team. Berkonomics , November 29, 2010 Rice Alliance IT/Web 2.0
With all these companies vying for attention & others just here to soak up the vibe I thought I’d write a much broader piece on how startups can make the most of their attendance at conferences & events. Write them in advance and request meetings. That way you’re all extending your networks and splitting the costs.
And still able to make it out to LA networking events. Soleil returns emails at 1.30am. She helps write press releases. Somehow she was always on a flight up to Seattle or San Francisco. Always meeting her product ship dates. Getting involved with political events and fund raisers. What was she doing with Soleil Moon Frye?
Modern-society is also littered with over-networkers and over-introducers and professional conference attendees. Or an angel investor starts emailing the CEO of a company with all the people they want him or her to meet. That’s why focus is critical. It starts seemingly innocent enough.
There’s some stuff here that I even prefer not to put into writing. 5: Q: “What’s the best way to get a VC’s attention in an email&# – I’ve written about this topic so more in depth is here on How to Access a VC as well as I Emailed a VC and Never Heard Back – What Now? they take time!!
I was waiting for my son’s basketball game to start this morning and with the morning’s emails all drained I turned to Twitter and saw this Tweet from Marshall Kirkpatick. I write lots of people on Twitter. Test: open your twitter stream, look at the 1st item in it, think of something to say in response, say it.
I've recently received several emails from people looking for a technical cofounder for their startup. I promised I would write this post with some thoughts and ideas on the topic. Here's an example of that kind of email. Ask your friends to do the same. Take lots of them out for free coffee, food, beer. Go to user groups.
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Email readers, continue here.] Frank Peters made his money writing software for Wall Street. Frank speaks and networks at angel events around the world. I had no alternatives to success. I was not going back to corporate America. It wasn’t a fall- back position. I had to be successful at my new software company.
Microsoft Office ended up beating its competitors because it was able to read and write to file formats other than its own. Juno provided a free email service. Free email providers (like gmail or hotmail) didn’t exist, and you had to pay a separate fee to dial up companies like AOL to access the internet. Working at Juno.
Her show’s local success led to a meeting in Los Angeles with several ABC network executives. The network owned Oprah’s AM Chicago show, as it was created under the auspices of her contract with WLS. However, Oprah’s healthy balance of humility and self-confidence caused her to be undaunted by the network executives’ poor judgment.
When I sit down to write every week I never really imagine what is going to end up resonating the most with people but it seems I’ve most often been defined by my post that I Invest in Lines, not Dots. He sent me a few nice emails. He used the 500Startups platform to uber network in the Bay Area where he was living.
Nowadays, when you post something online, whether that is an image in a gallery or social networking site, it only has a lifespan of just a few seconds. An example might be Facegoo, which allows you to send funny emails to friends, send out a tweet, or add a picture to Facebook. Let's talk about funding. How is the company funded?
These have the benefit to VCs of not cross-collateralizing returns and to LPs of being able to know the underlying asset before they write the check. Maybe add your email to receive the next post delivered to your email box? But there are clear pro’s and con’s. Still reading? The second half of this analysis coming soon!
I went to an industry event where people actually called me self-centered for writing publicly. My friends said, “I don’t need another network. That’s what happens when you join a network and have kids. Here’s the thing: If you never try new product and new networks you’ll never learn anything. I already have Facebook.”.
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