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How to Get Early Customers to Respond to Your Cold Emails

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“We both went to Tennessee!” ” is less than “Tennessee” in a signature or a probing “I noticed you’re in Ann Arbor. It is very common for my insight into a market to improve as I do customer development. Research this and add some cursory but subtle remark about your similarity.

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Lessons from the Front Line of a Microfund

The Entrepreneurial Mind

The goal was to support local entrepreneurs and to help accelerate the growth of start-ups in the Middle Tennessee area. Program Content : "Lean Startup / Customer Development in practice. Jumpstart Foundry was started by a local venture firm called Solidus Company.