muraPOI: December 5, 2012

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About email.

  • What are the six types of email users identified by Google?: Just kinda interesting.

    (Quora, October 2, 2012)

  • The perfect email: I try pretty hard to craft brief and focused emails, and to highlight the important point/request in emails that I send out. I make strategic use of bold and italics to give a visual cue as to the important aspects of my emails.

    1 – He knows my background, and frames the question that he has with that relevant context.
    2 – He understands who I am (references to TechStars).
    3 – He gets that I’m seeing a million groupon clones and makes me chuckle a little.
    4 – He’s clearly generally intelligent/articulate. His writing has an easy style.
    5 – He speaks my language.

    (StartupDigest, November 9, 2012)