Eric Davidson

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

In 2015, Ash Carter, President Obama’s 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 outpost—officially called the Defense Innovation Unit, but known at the Pentagon as Unit X. Its job was to find fledgling technolog... See more

First, we should expect the price of attention to continue to rise. In a world of rising noise — with far more products, services, bots, and content than humans to consume them — we should expect the price of attention to continue to rise, and only be limited by the lowest sustainable margins of those that need to purchase it. To rephrase Bezos:

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In a world of infinite content the price of attention ought to go up, and up, and up.

John Rush

@johnrushx

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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

@johnrushx

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Jul 6

2. Social media DMs (Li, X, IG, FB, ... See more

I often created GIFs (below), made in Photoshop, if the illustration in context lent itself to being animated.

I have also been working on a new product for Stocktwits that connects everything I have learned building community which combines stock picking, crypto/stablecoins, betting, peer to peer functionality, trading and education.