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I'm only guessing here, but I think that most of the angel investors that I know will trash such an email after reading the first sentence and seeing how much more they still have to read.
You write a sentence that makes the person want to read the next one.
Even busy people like to read interesting emails.
It took me a couple of hours to write the email. Definitely time well spent.
IMO this is too long, also not clear enough. Single sentence per line. Or two small ones. Clear ask on its own line, correct? Thanks, Startup Founder Startup Name and URL email / phone
Good post. This is approximately what I've been doing for the last two weeks as I try to contact specific developers to come work at famo.us. I spend time researching them, including reading their github code, twitter and G+ streams, LinkedIn, personal blog etc. If I can't find a solid connection between what their experience and the things they love to do then that is a signed that I haven't researched enough or tha…
http://www.davidvaldman.com.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.c...
Did he invest?
And now I too am very curious what the response was, particularly whether location-based services are being over- or underestimated at the moment.
On the topic of location-based services being over/underestimated there wasn't a clear reply from David. Our experience has been that there are great opportunities in solving problems for enterprise customers using mobile and location-based services. I can't really speak for the B2C opportunity.
Reading the email, it really felt as if it was from someone who already knew the OP well. If I'd read something like that about myself I would have question my first impression that this was a stranger -- surely we'd had coffee or something at some point? Met at a conference?
In the same way that mimicking body language influences someone, the email was couched in all kinds of casual point about "this is how we are alike".
Hit them right in the tribal monkey brain.
IMO this is too long, also not clear enough. Single sentence per line. Or two small ones. Clear ask on its own line, correct? Thanks, Startup Founder Startup Name and URL email / phone
While I agree in general that shorter emails are preferable - longer emails draw you in more and can really show that the sender has thought things through, thus making you more open to reciprocating.
I don't get anywhere near as much email as a professional investor, but unless it's from someone I know and actually want to hear from, or someone paying me, if it goes on for more than 3 lines without being compelling, I just hit delete.