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* In order to think through this, Dan and I walked around the same block in Mountain View several hundred times Don't. If your startup is trying to sell to sma
by alain94040 13y ago
* In order to think through this, Dan and I walked around the same block in Mountain View several hundred times
Don't. If your startup is trying to sell to small businesses, stop asking the business owners on Castro St. They already have more pitches than the VCs on Sand Hill road. They are bombarded with half-baked ideas on how to get more customers, make more money from existing customers, etc.
Long distance calls have been free for a while now: call some other state with no startup culture and pitch to those business owners. They'll be both more receptive and more representative of the overall business population.
- dools 13y agoI got the impression they were just walking and talking to each other.
- zt 13y ago(I'm the author) Sorry for my lack of clarity here. We weren't pitching customers in Mountain View, we were just walking around a block a few hundred times -- talking and thinking with each other.
- tomblomfield 13y agopg also seems to like doing office hours while walking in circles around the same block
- zt 13y agoAs do other partners. This was a different block though, one that our house was on.