{"id":280,"date":"2010-06-10T15:28:59","date_gmt":"2010-06-10T19:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.payne.org\/?p=280"},"modified":"2010-06-10T15:28:59","modified_gmt":"2010-06-10T19:28:59","slug":"i-have-a-few-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/i-have-a-few-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"I Have A Few Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A quick note to folks that email me unsolicited investment decks and business plans, asking for meetings.\u00a0 I love to meet as many people as I can, but (unfortunately) I do not have the VC-firm army of associates to screen things that are the best fit.<\/p>\n<p>Please don\u2019t be offended if you email me to meet, and I reply with a bunch of questions first.\u00a0 I won\u2019t waste your time; I\u2019ll think about what you\u2019re working on and ask the key, probing questions (e.g. they don\u2019t come from a canned list).<\/p>\n<p>And then, if it makes sense to meet, we\u2019re already that much further ahead in the discussion!<\/p>\n<p>(And an interesting side comment:\u00a0 you\u2019d be surprised how many times someone sends me a cold email, I send questions back, then I never hear from them again.\u00a0 Not even, \u201cGood questions!\u00a0 Let us do some work and get back to you.\u201d)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A quick note to folks that email me unsolicited investment decks and business plans, asking for meetings.\u00a0 I love to meet as many people as I can, but (unfortunately) I do not have the VC-firm army of associates to screen &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/i-have-a-few-questions\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entrepreneurship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}