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Apurva Srivastava

@apurvasrivastava

The Business of Expertise: How Entrepreneurial Experts Convert Insight to Impact + Wealth

Dan Sullivan is the cofounder of Strategic Coach, the number one entrepreneurial coaching company in the entire world. Dan has trained tens of thousands of the very best entrepreneurs to become even better. He helps his entrepreneurs clarify their “Unique Ability”—the activities that bring them the most excitement and energy and produce the biggest

Dan Sullivan • Who Not How: The Formula to Achieve Bigger Goals Through Accelerating Teamwork

I guess there is one thing replicable: a lot of outbound. A couple of months ago, he came across someone doing really interesting work on YouTube with just hundreds of views and sent him a note. “This happens a lot on GitHub, too,” he said. “Someone will write really good open source libraries and 20 people will download.” Send them a note. The aut... See more

Packy McCormick • Article

identifying a mutual friend, acquaintance, or interest, you are much more likely to have success from your introduction

Matthew Paulson • Email Marketing Demystified: Build a Massive Mailing List, Write Copy that Converts and Generate More Sales (Second Edition)

Timothy Armoo, founder of Fanbytes

Katie Lewis • Find Your 9others

I don’t want to introduce my founders to newbie angel investors who aren’t legit, and in my book legit people are ones who are present, considered, and courteous.

Jason Calacanis • Angel: How to Invest in Technology Startups—Timeless Advice from an Angel Investor Who Turned $100,000 into $100,000,000

Justin

@justinmaurer

I WANTED PRAKASH TO BE MY MENTOR. So I went and offered to take his class notes and turn them into a book. After that I spent time with him every day for months. I wanted Victor be to my mentor. So I sent him free software for his trading. I sent him everything I had ever worked on. I read every book he ever quoted from. I read papers he wrote in t