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This is one of those personal preferences that might differ from investor to investor, but: no, I probably won't intro you with another investor if I've already passed on your company. A lot of venture capital is full of wishy-washy bullshit human feels o

Three of the biggest changes in my life all stemmed, in part, from cold outreach. Originally I was waitlisted at Carnegie Mellon. Getting waitlisted is like, being the first loser: you're good enough to be in the topic of conversation, but they make it cl

Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.

I remember one time I had this guy call me up, wanted to pitch me, right? Wanted to sell me stock. So I let him. I got every fuckin' rebuttal outta this guy, kept him on the phone for an hour and a half. Towards the end I started askin' him buying questio

Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.

Awhile back I asked my friend Leah Culver about how she tracks angel investments, because I was just getting into angel investing and it seemed weird that everyone just had some shitty spreadsheet setup to keep track of all this stuff: Anyway, her answer

Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.

Part of the annoying thing about angel investing is that you're ostensibly investing in CUTTING EDGE FUTURE STARTUPS who are about to BRING THE FUTURE TO YOUR FACE and in order to do this you have to go through some of the worst software and processes on

Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.