After announcing our first institutional round of funding for AffinityLive last week and highlighting why we deliberately raised a small round of capital, a number of entrepreneurs reached out asking the same basic question: why is the belief that raising as much money as you can any time you can
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After getting a bunch of great publicity (thanks Techcrunch, SMH and many others) over the last few days following our funding announcement, I've been inundated by recruiters reaching out to let me know about the great candidates they have. The reply to all of them is the same:
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Today we announced we've raised a $2 million dollar round of funding for AffinityLive. More than three years after our launch, this is the first institutional money we've taken; until now, we've built a crazy-ambitious product and worldwide client base through bootstrapping. Over these
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While the email campaigns are still as constant as ever, it has been a couple of months since I noticed a true face-palm email campaign. Thankfully, the idiots at Varazo sent us a gold medal Inside Sales Idiot email this morning. Feast your eyes on this beauty! Aside from the
This post was originally an email written to the StartMate 2015 companies soon to be arriving in San Francisco to pitch investors and raise their seed rounds. Hopefully this information will remain useful for other folks following in their footsteps and coming to this great but confusing city as wide-eyed
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I've been a user of Windows since the version 3.0, but this weekend I finally broke up with Windows. While there were plenty of times Windows had frustrated me in the past (Vista anyone?) the debacle that is Windows 8 was the final straw, and I'
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This one sold itself as an ISI nominee from the subject - "Albany Ford Subaru - Flagged No Response". As much as I love getting an email with subject of the sender prominently displayed (hint: it is better to write a subject that your audience cares about), the
Introduction Comcast's business model is simple - sell to new customers on a good deal and then rely on their laziness and ignorance to increase average revenue per account to thousands of dollars a year. Over the last month I've upgraded the internet at my house,
A quick one from another set of off-shore outsourcing bottom feeders. While any LinkedIn user knows that these are pretty much the only messages being sent on the platform these days, this one was too funny not to share. Highlights include: 1. Emma spelling her own name wrong. Probably a
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So, it seems like the folks at Techcello aren't happy about being called put for wasting other peoples time with their sales approach. Aside from getting another message overnight imploring me to delete the post, I've now started getting angry comment spam. Here's the
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While Groundhog day is too early in Feb to be declaring a winner, I couldn't let this guy's effort today go by. So funny for so many reasons, but my definite favorite was the suggestion of a "telephonic discussion" as the most exciting next
24 hours ago I published a blog post reflecting on the wonderful renewal I've been witnessing on my quarterly trips back to my home town, Wollongong. It seems that the post has really touched a chord. In that 24 hours, almost 3000 people have read the post. Aside