Reminders for myself
A lot of people that get into angel investing are operators, and they think "I love this company. If only they did this, I'm going to invest in them and help them do this" . The reality is that you have limited operational input. If you really connect with the founder and there's alignment, you might help them develop a new product strategy. Howeve... See more
đ Angel interview #6: Sari Azout
In 2015, Ash Carter, President Obamaâs Secretary of Defense, set out to bring the two communities together. Carter, who had a doctorate in theoretical physics, dispatched a team of officers to the Bay Area to set up an outpostâofficially called the Defense Innovation Unit, but known at the Pentagon as Unit X. Its job was to find fledgling technolog... See more
Is the U.S. Ready for the Next War?
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Jul 6
1. Cold emails:
- go for quality, not quantity
send to 20 people; if no reply, change the copy and resend. repeat until 2 replies.
- make it super short and include the outcome E.g. for @listingbott I'd send this "100 backlinks from relevant directories in one click"
John Rush
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Jul 6
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@johnrushx
¡
Jul 6
1. Cold emails:
- go for quality, not quantity
send to 20 people; if no reply, change the copy and resend. repeat until 2 replies.
- make it super short and include the outcome E.g. for @listingbott I'd send this "100 backlinks from relevant directories in one click"
John Rush
@johnrushx
¡
Jul 6
2. Social media DMs (Li, X, IG, FB, ... See more
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I often created GIFs (below), made in Photoshop, if the illustration in context lent itself to being animated.
Kyle Scallon's Portfolio - Hand-Drawn Illustrations for Scott Galloway
People need time to digest the sheer scale of their leadersâ incompetence. Once the smoke clears, Iranians will be confronted with the stark truth: the entire nuclear program was a catastrophic, generational waste.
The World Is Spinning Out Of Control...Same as It Ever Was
âAs I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and make plans.â
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Atlanta â The Optimist Restaurant
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The Two Train Solution
The answer is always both
Solomon Kahn
Jun 11
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This newsletter article is around the size of a LinkedIn post, but the idea is so important I want to make sure it lives somewhere permanent on the internet instead of lost in the void of old social media posts.
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The Two Train Solution
The answer is always both
Solomon Kahn
Jun 11
READ IN APP
This newsletter article is around the size of a LinkedIn post, but the idea is so important I want to make sure it lives somewhere permanent on the internet instead of lost in the void of old social media posts.
This Substack is... See more
The Two Train Solution
