{"id":12679,"date":"2020-01-11T11:26:47","date_gmt":"2020-01-11T15:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/?p=12679"},"modified":"2020-01-12T13:15:15","modified_gmt":"2020-01-12T17:15:15","slug":"what-they-do-teach-you-at-alpha-kappa-psi-about-cold-email","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/what-they-do-teach-you-at-alpha-kappa-psi-about-cold-email\/","title":{"rendered":"What They Do Teach You at Alpha Kappa Psi About Cold Email"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Larry Chiang<\/span><\/div>\n

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It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s very street smart to cold call people. Cold email is a version of distribution. Distribution is where you network and distribute yourself. <\/span><\/div>\n

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Cold email was taught at AKpsi at Stanford. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m an honorary Delta Sigma Pi because I guessed at what DSP taught their members. I got to keynote Delta Sigma Pi leadership retreat in Miami of Ohio. <\/span><\/div>\n

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There will be no keynote on \u00e2\u20ac\u0153cold emailing\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/span><\/div>\n

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Guess at email addresses<\/span><\/div>\n
Google email address. <\/span><\/div>\n
Email people. <\/span><\/div>\n
Re-email people. <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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<\/span><\/td>\nRicky Yean (@rickyyean<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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1\/10\/20, 10:56 PM<\/font><\/a><\/div>\n
Thread got me digging up extremely cringe-worthy cold emails from college. Ended up working for both <\/a>\u00e2\u0081\u00a6\u00e2\u20ac\u00aa@coreyreese\u00e2\u20ac\u00ac\u00e2\u0081\u00a9<\/a> and <\/a>\u00e2\u0081\u00a6\u00e2\u20ac\u00aa@kevinhartz\u00e2\u20ac\u00ac\u00e2\u0081\u00a9<\/a> even though there weren’t job postings. Yes I leaned into that Stanford cred pretty hard and I had no idea how to email 😅 pic.twitter.com\/mzojt2D7Nf<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n


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<\/td>\nCecilia Corral (@ceciliacorral<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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1\/10\/20, 11:05 PM<\/a><\/div>\n
<\/a>\u00e2\u0081\u00a6\u00e2\u20ac\u00aa@rickyyean\u00e2\u20ac\u00ac\u00e2\u0081\u00a9<\/a> <\/a>\u00e2\u0081\u00a6\u00e2\u20ac\u00aa@coreyreese\u00e2\u20ac\u00ac\u00e2\u0081\u00a9<\/a> <\/a>\u00e2\u0081\u00a6\u00e2\u20ac\u00aa@kevinhartz\u00e2\u20ac\u00ac\u00e2\u0081\u00a9<\/a> Was this before or after AKPsi taught email? 🤔😂<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n
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Guess at email. <\/div>\n
Email people. <\/div>\n
Re-email people. <\/div>\n
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Ask a specific question inside a cold email. <\/div>\n
Read something about them and expand inside another cold email. <\/div>\n
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So many VCs got their early start cold calling people. <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Larry Chiang It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s very street smart to cold call people. Cold email is a version of distribution. Distribution is where you network and distribute yourself.  Cold email was taught at AKpsi at Stanford. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m an honorary Delta Sigma Pi because I guessed at what DSP taught their members. I got to keynote Delta Sigma […]<\/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-12679","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\/12679","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=12679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}