Email Seed Funding Writing 
Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 9, 2014
We all know that funding markets have changed for startups. The trends are well understood: more angels, more seed funds, more crowdsourcing and so forth. So I recommend a high-level “state of the company” email a couple of times a year but a message that you assume might get shown to others.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 27, 2011
This is a blog post I really didn’t want to write. I didn’t want to write it because I have mixed feelings about AngelList. I didn’t want to write it because the bloggosphere doesn’t always do nuance well. So why I am writing it then? As Shervin said, it’s just email. A few reasons.
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SoCal CTO
JANUARY 5, 2011
November 23, 2010 Entrepreneurs, Using Outsourcing to Obtain Capital Efficiency Needs to be Thought Through to be Effective - Robert Ochtel , June 7, 2010 Teen Entrepreneur, Brian Wong, Youngest Founder to Receive Angel Funding - teenentrepreneurblog.com , October 28, 2010 Build Your Own Silicon Valley?
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 7, 2015
I save room in literally every deal to invite angels (or seed funds) to co-invest with me. Even if one disagrees with the premise, why would anyone feel the need to attack Mike for writing it? With strong leads (VCs, seed funds or large angels) there is an unwritten Pottery Barn Rule. This is a hard one.
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 27, 2010
No rule is ever absolute no matter how it sounds when one writes a blog. I sent numerous emails for another for a job opportunity and he is now a senior exec at a very prominent startup. They seed funded my second company and even let me buy some IP in exchange for debt to get started. He’s family and he knows it.
From the Venture Trenches
APRIL 30, 2013
Jason laughed when he told me that he has rattled off inspirational emails to Paul Bricault, Amplify’s managing director, at 11:30 at night only to find an equally enthusiastic response in his in-box five minutes later. Now that we no longer commute to Windward Circle we cannot help but feel that Amplify has contributed to our growth as well.
socalTECH
SEPTEMBER 23, 2020
As I was driving home from that meeting, I decided to work from there, and ended up writing a business plan and fundraising from family and friends. What we saw that was really interesting, was in mid-May, we started seeing lots of emails and phone calls for membership. all of the companies in our industry saw a decline in revenues.
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