Hunter Walker

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Kieran Synder is CEO of Textio , an innovative Seattle startup which helps companies understand the language of their job listings. Kieran’s email, which she’s letting me publish here: “We do a take-home project too, longer than 3-4 hours actually.

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David Cohen

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

SendGrid is a transactional email platform. Techstars funded the company via our Techstars Seattle Accelerator in 2011. Outreach is a sales engagement platform that was funded by the Techstars Seattle Accelerator in 2011. Techstars funded Remitly, an online remittance company as part of our Techstars Seattle Accelerator in 2011.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

Having read his latest op-ed on email I know why I erred towards the side of of not loving his book as much as some did. Apparently he’s an “organizational psychologist professor and thinks that it’s rude not to answer email. I also surmise that perhaps organizational psychologists don’t get as much unsolicited emails as some of us do.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Elon Musk touts launch of ‘SpaceX Seattle’ | Business & Technology | The Seattle Times crowdspring.co/1BadR6p. 5 Ways to Grow Your Email List With Facebook Contests | Social Media Examiner crowdspring.co/1EYiTGV. The Unwritten Rules Of Writing Emails | Fast Company | Business + Innovation crowdspring.co/1HHqzSU.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

While you dialed AOL to get on the Internet, the goal of AOL was to keep you locked into their proprietary content and thus earned the classification of “walled garden.&# They had a proprietary browser, their own search engine, their own content, chat rooms, email system, etc. And now they want to revolutionize email.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

The value of Pitch Decks; Brad’s personal preferences on deal presentation; and Brad’s practice of accepting cold approaches via email. Very few people can do a good job with a presentation that is emailable.”. You have said outloud anyone can send you an email, is that fair? Yeah, my email address is Brad@Feld.com.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 12, 2020

For the past few years, the month of May has been more like Seattle weather than Colorado weather, so while spring is transitioning into summer, heavy clouds hang over us. I stop doing meetings and email Friday night. Sunday is similar, but I catch up on email, and read a bunch more. It’s gloomy in Colorado today.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 24, 2010

Three months ago at a board dinner in Seattle we discussed the idea of creating a much lighter weight implementation – basically something that a publisher like me could implement on my site without having to write any code. And – if you want a direct connect with the company, just email me.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Did they reach out via phone, email, or online chat with a question about their recent purchase? All of your customers in the Northwest can be notified when you’re speaking at a conference in Seattle. CRM tools allow you to track all interactions with a customer across platforms. Are they on the mailing list for your newsletter?

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 19, 2022

When open houses in Seattle Real Estate shut down at the beginning of the pandemic my Photography business knew that Virtual Tours were going to be very important. Some clients still prefer face-to-face meetups, while others are perfectly fine with the new way we do things with online meetings and email updates.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 7, 2014

I just got back from my third business trip this summer – this time to Seattle for the past three days. Historically on a three day trip to Seattle, I’d have 10 meetings a day, starting early in the morning and going until after dinner. And then I’d stay up until 1am trying to grind through my email.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

We had email, instant messaging, group calendars, discussion boards, etc. They had a proprietary browser, their own search engine, their own content, chat rooms, email system, etc. But AOL brought online services, email, chat and discussion boards to the masses and thus educated a generation that paved the way for others.

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Haystack

JUNE 5, 2018

After being installed in 2014 as Microsoft’s new CEO, Nadella has turned around the Seattle ocean liner on a new course after the Ballmer regime.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Joel moved to Seattle, and worked at Microsoft for three years as a program manager on Excel 4.0 Juno provided a free email service. Free email providers (like gmail or hotmail) didn’t exist, and you had to pay a separate fee to dial up companies like AOL to access the internet. Working at Juno. What did Juno do?

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

TechStars will still run programs that it owns and operates in Boulder, New York, Boston, and Seattle, but we’ll continue to aggressively expand the overall network across the US as well as the world. And, if you want to engage in any way, just email me and I’ll try to figure out how to get you plugged in.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 6, 2020

More interesting was the number of direct emails I received back with detailed information about “remote-first” companies and how they did things. There was a distinction in some of these emails between “remote-first” and “multiple geographies.” LA, Boston) is getting much more challenging.

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techcrunch.com

APRIL 26, 2013

Feel free to directly email us at tips@techcrunch.com. Seattle Meetup. Seattle, WA. Have a Tip, Pitch or Guest Column? Guest Column. So youve got the inside scoop on a story or topic that weve covered? We respect your anonymity. Please read our guest post guidelines before submitting. Examples: TechCrunch and. Upcoming Events.

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fi.co

DECEMBER 4, 2012

In a post on his blog , Dave Parker, Co-Founder and CEO of Bundled.com and Director of the Seattle Founder Institute , explains why spiltting equity 50/50 amongst co-founders is almost never the right answer, because each co-founder will have their own expectations, commitment, and goals regarding the startup. Choose a city closest to you.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 11, 2020

A little company in Seattle called Microsoft. When I put out that War on the Rocks article, I got emails from very impressive people, with an entrepreneurial bent, who had left the military, but clearly wanted to contribute. The industry was known as IBM and the Seven Dwarfs because IBM’s competitors were so far behind.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 16, 2019

We are investors in PSL (in Seattle) and High Alpha (in Indianapolis). If you are interested in the Techstars Studio, drop me an email and I’ll route you to the right folks. At Foundry, we have a lot of experience with the Studio model. The post Techstars Studio and the Studio Model appeared first on Feld Thoughts.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 19, 2012

Demo Day is in Seattle on June 28th. If you are an investor (angel or VC), send me an email and I’ll get you an invitation. TechStars and Microsoft have been so pleased with the program that a second cycle of the Microsoft Accelerator in Seattle has been added focusing on cloud-based applications.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

by Whitney Keyes , author of “ Propel: Five Ways to Amp Up Your Marketing and Accelerate Business “ In the United States, one thing the city of Seattle, WA, is best known for is its coffee, but there’s an innovative partnership happening around another source of caffeine and that’s the cocoa bean. The result?

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Seattle, Portland, Austin, New York City and Chicago have come up in the U.S. If you have additional questions, please email me, and I would be very happy to respond. Cultures with deep roots, low immigration and long memories tend to punish failure, instead of celebrating the effort.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Oh, and if you’re in Chicago or Seattle you have your home town events, too. Here’s yours: Chicago (Nov 7) Seattle (Nov 9). **. Historically you are your email address. Think about your local news anchor saying, “if you want to get in touch email me at xxxx.” Call it “Strategic Twitter.”

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 6, 2018

Of the 23 funds listed here, 13 are in the Bay Area, 3 in NYC, 3 in Boston, 2 in LA, and one each in Detroit, Seattle, Toronto, Waterloo, Indianapolis, and Fargo, North Dakota. We knew that some places, like NYC, Boston, and Seattle, where we already had deep networks, would be common places for us to invest.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

MAY 14, 2020

It’s also a good idea to opt for local IT support, so say you are based in Seattle then you might want to source an IT company in Seattle to deal with your IT support needs. Don’t make the mistake of mixing your business and personal comms, such as your phone number, email or address. Get Your Marketing Spot-On.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 21, 2020

“Advocacy of the small, innovative firm and entrepreneurial ecosystem is giving way to more and more justifications for bigness (scale economics, competitive advantage, etc.),” Saxenian wrote to me in an email. The techlash is in full bloom and Silicon Valley is in the center of it.

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Hunter Walker

JULY 11, 2014

And in the end they appear to resonate the most because I receive emails saying, “I swear you wrote that just for me.” You’re up in Seattle – for folks who don’t live there, describe the tech scene, especially from an entrepreneurship standpoint. The Seattle scene is different from the valley or NYC.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 25, 2018

While I was in Seattle last week, I had a chance to stop by the Glowforge office and talk to the team during one of their biggest weeks since their historic 30-day crowdfunding campaign. I get a copy of the presentation by email, so I can keep current on what’s happening with examples like this.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 30, 2012

If you are interested, send me an email along with links to examples of what you’ve done. You don’t have to be in Boulder, but it’s an advantage if you are in or near one of Boulder, Boston, New York, Seattle, or San Antonio as it makes it easy to plug you into the network.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 30, 2015

Jon Staenberg, a long-time friend from Seattle who did an interview with Harry on episode 034 , dropped me the following email at the end of April: He seems like a good guy, want to be part of his podcast? Ever in seattle? I told Jon I’d be game. Harry responded immediately and we did a podcast together six weeks ago.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 31, 2011

Just today, I got emails about new job pages at Cheezburger (Seattle and NY), SendGrid (Boulder and LA), and Attachments.me (Bay Area). And if you are looking for something in Boulder, don’t forget that I manage a CEO list that I’ll happily email your resume to. A bunch of our portfolio companies are hiring.

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Berkonomics

MAY 31, 2018

Email readers, continue here…] One day Tom came to me and said, “I want to transfer to marketing. Five years later, I received an email from Tom. An email to preserve and show. In one of the most understated several word paragraphs in history, I responded by email, “Gee, Tom. Hello again, Dave,” it began.

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www.gv.com

JANUARY 7, 2013

This can be really valuable when you’re testing assumptions relating to data quality or personal content like email. Timeboxing can make the project feel less daunting, and reduce the impulse to check your email and burn up valuable make time. Appoint an email sheriff. More on this later. Here are some examples.

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keen.io

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

The next Monday, I received the following email from Kyle. Kyle sent a similar email to Micah that morning, and I crossed paths with Micah as he was leaving the meeting I was about to walk into. Kirk flew into San Francisco from Seattle on that Friday, so he could talk to the founders in person. Email the team.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 6, 2012

Here’s an email exchange that I had in the past 24 hours with an entrepreneur. Remember, I try to answer all of my emails and be responsive to any inquiry – this was a random one (which I get between 25 and 100 a day). Yesterday, I spent 30 minutes with one of the teams in TechStars Seattle that I’m a lead mentor for.

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Version One Ventures

JUNE 3, 2013

As Version One is investing across North-America and has portfolio companies from New York to Seattle, Los Angeles to Toronto, you should also be excited about travelling and “airbnb’ing” If you’re interested in the position, please send me an email at bwertz [at] versiononeventures [dot] com.

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