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What does hey.com get right vs. not as a product? Will it succeed?
Have a thought? We'd love to hear it on souffle.club
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Some people asked me on Twitter what does a successful cold email to a VC look like? Here's a company we funded who sent us a cold email that I'll highlight (details redacted).
Some thoughts here:
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Replying to @sarthakgh
@TrustedFor_ Very, very interesting candidate for Linkedin disruption
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Now that demo day is wrapping up I'm getting through a backlog of about 1000 emails from non-yc founders who have reached out to me. Three most common mistakes in these emails....
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Excited to share our vision for LinkedIn 2.0 at @ycombinator demo day today!
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Replying to @eriktorenberg
This is why I’m interested in @TrustedFor_ , since you don’t know what people really think of their coworkers/investors in LI/AL
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As I get older, saying thank you has gotten more important. Cliche, I know!
We're working to build a network that allows you to praise a designer, marketer, engineer, product person, etc for their work that
1) stays on the person's profile
2) can help other people needing the expertise you're shouting out
@corystieg @Refinery29
refinery29.com/en-ca/benefit…
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Founders, don't build a company investors want so you can raise money from them.
Build the company YOU want and find investors that happen to want that too.
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The Lindy Effect for startups:
The longer you work on a product, the more likely you will never stop working on that product.
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People aren't hiring degrees. They're hiring skills.
Go get skills and build a way to prove it.
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- Make things and share your work
- Reach out to people you respect on Twitter and tell them
- Move from Twitter to IRL
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A fun question I have started asking people : “Why do you think you got hired at the time you did for the role you got hired for?”
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My 2 cents around hiring:
In the last 4 month’s I’ve leverage my personal network to get people hired @ brands.
When ppl tell me they “applied online” I shed a tear 😢. Ur chances are so low.
Instead, build the demand for yourself to make them reach out, or go in via an intro. – at Manhattan, NY
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support your friends, support people you look up to and most of all support yourself. – at Henrietta, NY




















