{"id":12243,"date":"2019-09-09T13:46:17","date_gmt":"2019-09-09T17:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/?p=12243"},"modified":"2019-11-21T17:39:18","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T21:39:18","slug":"episode-7-emailing-strangers-to-close-deals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/episode-7-emailing-strangers-to-close-deals\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 7 Emailing Strangers To Close Deals"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Episode 7; #HowToNotGoBankruptAsAnEntrepreneur<\/a> <\/p>\n

Emailing strangers. \u202c\u2069<\/a><\/p>\n

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Emailing people, cold calling people that hang up on you. Mailing people just to be different. Let\u2019s focus on email <\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n


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Ex-athlete and 🌲alum, Lisa \u2066\u202a@LisaFalzone\u202c\u2069<\/a>, would cold email #cs183email<\/a>. <\/span><\/font><\/div>\n

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For example, after reading \u2066\u202a@bhorowitz\u202c\u2069<\/a> book, she cold emailed the sales guy Ben \u2066\u202a@a16z\u202c\u2069<\/a> mentioned. <\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n


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Cold email is where you\u2019re emailing people out of the blue<\/div>\n
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VCs and 🐳 like to be sold. <\/div>\n
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Sean Jacobsen cold emails speakers at conferences to see they want to join a group dinner during the tech or investor conference<\/div>\n
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\u2066\u202a<\/a><\/span><\/font><\/div>\n
And follow up, like 9 times if youre serious. Spam is crazy these days and inboxes are horrible to parse<\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n


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If you want a job somewhere in tech<\/p>\n

Just reach out to whomever you want to work for with a great email<\/p>\n

Everyone is hiring today. Everyone.<\/p>\n

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\u2066\u202a@Shobeir\u202c\u2069<\/a> \u2066\u202a@ryangraves\u202c\u2069<\/a> \u2066\u202a@Uber\u202c\u2069<\/a> When Ryan was in Chicago, he used asymmetric networking protocol #cs183Email<\/a>. #ch4<\/a> = networking pic.twitter.com\/Q53RRsXk00<\/a><\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n


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asymmetric. It\u2019s when two VIPs don\u2019t wanna talk to you. And one of them is doing the half assed intro. <\/span><\/div>\n
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Episode 7; #HowToNotGoBankruptAsAnEntrepreneur<\/a> <\/p>\n

Emailing strangers by guessing what their email address is. Killer great tip \u2066\u202a@LisaFalzone\u202c\u2069<\/a><\/p>\n

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Bill Gurlie spent a third of his VC presentation on sales, deal flow, networking, email marketing and cold-calling. #0Questions<\/a> #KauffmanVC<\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Larry Chiang @duck9 (@LarryChiang) Episode 7; #HowToNotGoBankruptAsAnEntrepreneur  Emailing strangers. \u202c\u2069 Emailing people, cold calling people that hang up on you. Mailing people just to be different. Let\u2019s focus on email  Download  Larry Chiang @duck9 (@LarryChiang) Ex-athlete and 🌲alum, Lisa \u2066\u202a@LisaFalzone\u202c\u2069, would cold email #cs183email.  For example, after reading \u2066\u202a@bhorowitz\u202c\u2069 book, she cold emailed the sales guy Ben \u2066\u202a@a16z\u202c\u2069 mentioned.  Larry Chiang @duck9 (@LarryChiang) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stanford-engineering"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}