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I agree this advice does not only apply to emailing VC's. It applies to emailing ANYONE in the course of doing your job: interns to CEO's. 5 sentences often is
by angdis 15y ago
I agree this advice does not only apply to emailing VC's. It applies to emailing ANYONE in the course of doing your job: interns to CEO's.
5 sentences often is too much. If you can get it down to 3 sentences (or even 1 or 2 with judicious subject line) that is better. Just state the situation and what action you request.
For christ's sake, above all, don't resort to voicemail.
- silverbax88 15y agoI agree on the voice mail, although I've come to realize that some people avoid email and online communication altogether and if you don't call them, you won't talk to them.
- bricestacey 15y agoMany people do this to avoid a papertrail. Sometimes its a good idea to followup with an email summarizing the conversation when working with these types.
- lsc 15y agoand some people avoid phone communication entirely; For me, the phone is essentially a pager; If you call me and nothing is on fire, generally speaking, I won't be particularly happy.
- cookiecaper 15y agoMany people are really bad writers. Further, many people are really bad readers. Restricting yourself to email with someone who functions better on the phone or in person is just asking that relationship to collapse. At some point one of you will take something the wrong way, or write something the wrong way, and you'll just get deeper and deeper resentment and other fundamental causes of relationship dissolution. If you're working with someone who doesn't "get" email, even if they think they do, you do everyone a favor by manning up and calling when you have to and meeting in person when possible.