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MyStealthStartup: A different approach to approaching VCs

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Re: MyStealthStartup: A different approach to approaching VCs

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Post by sabat »

admoin wrote: post #2

linkbait (and shameless amazon affiliate pimping) alert

Maybe it's my adblocker, but I don't see the amazon link, nor can I figure out why it would be linkbait.

I like these kinds of blogs, because I hope to be a fellow traveller, and I want to learn from their experiences.

One nitpick: "the VC said he was very impressed and that he wouldn’t change a thing." Erm, so, did the VC also say he wanted more info? Interested in investing? I'm not sure I'd take his kudos very seriously unless the one-pager got him to act.

Re: MyStealthStartup: A different approach to approaching VCs

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Post by [deleted] »

sabat wrote: post #3
admoin wrote: post #2

linkbait (and shameless amazon affiliate pimping) alert

Maybe it's my adblocker, but I don't see the amazon link, nor can I figure out why it would be linkbait. I like these kinds of blogs, because I hope to be a fellow traveller, and I want to learn from their experiences. One nitpick: "the VC said he was very impressed and that he wouldn’t change a thing." Erm, so, did the VC also say he wanted more info? Interested in investing? I'm not sure I'd take his kudos very ser…

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Re: MyStealthStartup: A different approach to approaching VCs

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Post by thorax »

johnrob wrote: post #5

Anyone who writes about sending documents to VCs is not someone who should be giving advice on the subject.

Sounds more like to me that he's "comparing notes" and advocating his approach. I like when people do that, as it gives us all new ideas to consider.

Re: MyStealthStartup: A different approach to approaching VCs

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Post by stealthstartup »

admoin wrote: post #2

linkbait (and shameless amazon affiliate pimping) alert

This comment scared me. I don't believe these are affiliate links and I don't want to have anything that can let people track me down yet. I just copied the links from Amazon to the books I've read and found exceedingly helpful.

Re: MyStealthStartup: A different approach to approaching VCs

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Post by randallsquared »

sabat wrote: post #3
admoin wrote: post #2

linkbait (and shameless amazon affiliate pimping) alert

Maybe it's my adblocker, but I don't see the amazon link, nor can I figure out why it would be linkbait. I like these kinds of blogs, because I hope to be a fellow traveller, and I want to learn from their experiences. One nitpick: "the VC said he was very impressed and that he wouldn’t change a thing." Erm, so, did the VC also say he wanted more info? Interested in investing? I'm not sure I'd take his kudos very ser…

The VC was "in another realm", so presumably he doesn't fund startups like this one at all.

Re: MyStealthStartup: A different approach to approaching VCs

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Post by pchristensen »

admoin wrote: post #2

linkbait (and shameless amazon affiliate pimping) alert

This is not an affiliate link (someone complained incorrectly about this on another post from this blog - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=164120). He just read the book and liked it.

Other bigger bloggers (Coding Horror and Raganwald are two big examples) DO use Amazon affiliate links, all the time. And you know what? 90% of books I've read in the last couple years are books I knew about because someone wrote about it on their blog.

If he talked about a book and didn't link to it, someone would complain about him being lazy. So if it's courteous to link, why not throw in an affiliate link? It doesn't change anything for the reader.

Re: MyStealthStartup: A different approach to approaching VCs

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Post by pchristensen »

stealthstartup wrote: post #7
admoin wrote: post #2

linkbait (and shameless amazon affiliate pimping) alert

This comment scared me. I don't believe these are affiliate links and I don't want to have anything that can let people track me down yet. I just copied the links from Amazon to the books I've read and found exceedingly helpful.

Book recommendations are a good thing. Don't let grumpy people scare you.

Btw, you can get an affiliate ID (something like stealthstartup-20) from Amazon and only they would have to know who you are.

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