So, you cold emailed me saying “Hey I’m working on something awesome and I could really use your help.”
Thank you! I suspect I can indeed likely help you out. However, I get lots of these inquiries and my first thought is not “I’m too busy” but “I could help you more if you did some other stuff first.”
Here is that other stuff:
Learn about startups on your own. I now teach a class at Columbia about venturing, and here is the syllabus. Read all that stuff.
Read my own humble writings about startups: Ship While You Sleep and Amol’s Guide for Beginners.
Read the 10x larger set of writings at Amol.Sarva.co and A.Sarva.co and Blog.Drwn.com
Join the LifeX Community WhatsApp group and come to some meetups that we circulate (or follow my linkedin)
Come to a Salon hosted by LifeX, often in a city where I am (mostly NY) on a Thursday. Just ask me where/when in the group above.
Then, come up with something really interesting to say and email me again to a at sarva dot co.
I’ll try to reply!
Feb 2025