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Life-Long Learner
Personal blog · life-longlearner.combusinessstartupscareer
Life-Long Learner is a personal blog at life-longlearner.com about business, startups and career. Since 2011, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 68 times, most often “How to Cold Email Prospects”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Life-Long Learner for articles on cold emailing and business development, plus podcast interviews with business people such as Noah Lehmann and Mark Divine.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- How to Cold Email Prospects3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2012-09-27
- The Art of Asking Someone to Meet For Coffee2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-07-20
What Hacker News says?
This just seems like an ad for the bContext app. There's a link to an article about cold-emailing prospects that had a lot more meat, imo. http://life-longlearner.com/how-to-cold-email-prospects/
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on “One Way to Write A Powerful Cold Email”Submitted The Fallacy of Money As A Means as a story · 158 points
HN discussionYes, best thing to do is research the hell of them before you make any call or email. Some great articles that I've shared with my team: http://www.startupmoon.com/how-i-got-meetings-at-twitter-lin... http://life-longlearner.com/how-to-cold-email-prospects/ http://okdork.com/2013/04/18/cold_email/
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on “Ask HN: Do you cold call?”Submitted One Way to Write A Powerful Cold Email as a story · 107 points
HN discussionI grabbed one at random and thought it was a pretty sleazy thing to do (my opinion only) http://life-longlearner.com/business-development-quick-trick...
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on “Startup Business Development Posts”Submitted Startup Business Development Posts as a story · 54 points
HN discussionHNer's are probably not the target demographic for MacBook rentals, mostly folks who can either afford to buy or get a loaner in a pinch. As a rental business benchmark--here's a good podcast interview by Scott Britton with Noah Lehmann, who started an exotic car rental operation> http://life-longlearner.com/noah-lehmann-haupt-interview/
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on “Could really use your opinion”Submitted How To Ask For An Email Introduction as a story · 41 points
HN discussionGood refresh on inner-self development and mental toughness, the Mind Gym concept by Mark Divine very solid. Here's a podcast interview> http://life-longlearner.com/mark-divine-interview/
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on “Ask HN: What have you learned recently?”Submitted The Most Important Document You Probably Aren't Keeping as a story · 21 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Find Corporate Phone Numbers as a story · 19 points
HN discussionSubmitted Strategies and Tactics to Close the Deal as a story · 16 points
HN discussionSubmitted Business Tactics They Don’t Teach in School as a story · 15 points
HN discussionSubmitted Guerilla Tactics on Finding A Decision Maker as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Ask Someone if They're A Decision Maker as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is learning addiction holding you back? as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Create Holistically Ambitious Goals for 2014 as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Most Undervalued Skill to Become More Persuasive as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Playbook for Marketing A Udemy Course as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted What You Probably Aren't Doing After An Email Introduction as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Art of Asking Someone to Meet For Coffee as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Guerilla Tactics: Selling A Skillshare Class as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted An effective outsourcing system you'll actually use (solopreneurs, small teams) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Exposé of Tim Ferriss Mentorship Application as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Step by Step Guide to Pre-selling as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Respond When Someone Doesn't Need Your Help as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Adventures in Club Soda Land (Giving Up Drinking) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Your Most Important Muscle for Doing EPIC Sh*t as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Stop Cold Emailing Multiple People at the Same Company as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Creating A Viral Slideshare: What I Learned as a story · 2 points
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