By Larry Chiang
Learn to use the phone to call people
Cold calling skills will help you duck bankruptcy.
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Cold calling.
For the initial steps, tech founders leverage a giant YC rolodex. Then, they discover that they need to learn how to Cold Call. #cs183phone pic.twitter.com/BL0Msl12CV |
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Calling people on the phone helps you duck bankruptcy twitter.com/larrychiang/st…
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Larry Chiang @duck9 (@LarryChiang) |
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If your email address on the webpage is contact@duck9.com or help {at} Duck9 dot com or something generic…, I’ll be sad at your postmortem.
Be transparent. pic.twitter.com/ljUgLD0gER |
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Larry Chiang @duck9 (@LarryChiang) |
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Pretending to be big, gets you disconnected
Disconnection leads to death. pic.twitter.com/2KTxKoMVBl |
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