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Thomas Korte
Personal blog · thomaskorte.com/archivestartupscareer
Thomas Korte's personal blog at thomaskorte.com covers startups and career. Since 2010, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “How to meet important people in Silicon Valley : Thomas Korte”. The last post was in 2017, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this blog's cold-email how-to post as practical guidance on writing pitch emails to startups and bloggers. The posts cover outreach and pitching.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- How to meet important people in Silicon Valley : Thomas Korte2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-03-18
- /archive/how-to-cold-email2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-02-24
What Hacker News says?
Let me know if you write that post and I'll link to it. Thomas Korte (AngelList member) has his take here: http://thomaskorte.com/archive/how-to-cold-email I've been surveying people on AngelList to see if they want to remove their e-mail address. So far, about 5 people have said "keep it" and 1 asked me to take it off.
Comment linking /archive/how-to-cold-email
on “StartupList: The first startup gets funded”Submitted How to cold-email me (or any angel investor) as a story · 10 points
HN discussionHere are some articles / links that might help: http://thomaskorte.com/archive/how-to-cold-email http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1351460 Here's some things you shouldn't do: http://www.jonathanfields.com/blog/trainwreck-blogger-jv-pit... http://www.jonathanfields.com/blog/pr-social-media-gone-bad/ Hope it helps!
Comment linking /archive/how-to-cold-email
on “Ask HN: Any help or suggestion for a template Pitch email to bloggers?”Submitted How to meet important people in Silicon Valley : Thomas Korte as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Advice for founders who are not in incubators as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Seed Fundraising Climate Spring 2011 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to meet important people in Silicon Valley (or anywhere else) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Angel Investor Advice: 16 Tips for Founders @ YC Demo Day as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to meet important people in Silicon Valley - Thomas Korte as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tips for Founders as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to answer if you don't have an answer as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted I invested in SetJam: Intro to investment in 172 minutes as a story · 1 points
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