{"id":383,"date":"2008-09-10T04:31:45","date_gmt":"2008-09-10T09:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=383"},"modified":"2008-09-10T04:31:45","modified_gmt":"2008-09-10T09:31:45","slug":"cold-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2008\/09\/10\/cold-call\/","title":{"rendered":"Cold Call"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I Gave Myself 6 months to put things in order before trying the Startup route again, this time not as an employee but as founder.\u00a0 The scars from the last startup haven&#8217;t healed completely but can&#8217;t sulk forever.<br \/>\nI know its a longshot but when I have finally done something\/anything I think I&#8217;m gonna cold call\/email Mark Cuban every little thing counts\/matters for a startup and emailing him is not that much of a burden for me. I am expecting nothing , but hoping that I get a feedback, any kind be it the (f~ck you wasted 30 minutes of my life kind)!<br \/>\nI am quite excited just three and a half months to go!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>from TechCrunch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2008\/09\/09\/mark-cuban-when-i-die-i-want-to-come-back-as-me\/\">here<\/a>:<br \/>\n<strong>How do people reach you?<\/strong><br \/>\nSend me an email and in three paragraphs or less, tell me about your business. Dont say you need an NDA or want a call. Just tell me how youre going to make money and how I\u2019m going to add value. Give me a URL if you have a website, I\u2019ll figure it out. 5% of the people will hear back from me.<br \/>\nTC50 interview of Mark Cuban<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I Gave Myself 6 months to put things in order before trying the Startup route again, this time not as an employee but as founder.\u00a0 The scars from the last startup haven&#8217;t healed completely but can&#8217;t sulk forever. I know its a longshot but when I have finally done something\/anything I think I&#8217;m gonna cold &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2008\/09\/10\/cold-call\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cold Call&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,62,94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-views","category-personal-angol","category-startups"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}