How To Email Someone Important And Get A Response

I wanted to share thoughts on how to email someone “important” — and maximize your chance for a response. This could be a key email to win a customer, a cold email to an investor or reaching out to a potential mentor. When To Use Email vs. Social Media or In-Person My experience has been […]

Social Innovators Unite at The Feast

I had an awesome time yesterday at The Feast, a conference on Social Innovation sponsored by All Day Buffet. I posted two great videos to /Anecdotes, one from GirlEffect.org and one on Vertical Farming. It was so inspiring to meet lots of other young people innovating on global and local causes and building companies that […]

The Feast: Social Innovation Conference Comes to New York

I’m VERY excited about attending (and covering) All Day Buffet’s first major conference: The Feast.  I encourage anyone in the New York, especially those in the creative, technology or business communities to register for the event on Oct 16thth. The Feast will be a great chance to listen the brightest minds in social innovation, get […]

Mark Cuban on Entrepreneurship

Mark Cuban on lessons learned: …before you have kids and get a mortgage, that’s the time to go after it [entrepreneurship]. I cant tell you how many girlfriends I’ve had that said: you [must choose] me or the business — and I said, what’s your name? -From an interview at TechCrunch50 in San Francisco. Full […]

Founder Mindset: Developing a Superior Psychology

Entrepreneurship is extremely difficult. The road is paved with ambiguities, ups and downs and strained relationships. But there is one certainty – the entrepreneurs with a superior psychology are the ones who ultimately triumph. Paul Graham has an amazing essay on fundraising he published this month. It’s a must read. Paul gets at this very […]