You need to assume several key realities about the target of your email. He has received 300 other emails that day. He has temporarily forgotten how you met. He has temporarily forgotten everything you’ve already talked about. He has 20 seconds to spend on your email before deciding to handle it later which may mean […]
Category Archives: Hacks
Email Ninja-ing
Email is all the rage – both Fred Wilson and Brad Feld wrote about the necessity to properly use email as a re-call to action for web service users. I agree, since your email inbox is what your work life often revolves around (yes, this sounds sad). If you have someone’s email address, and you […]
Working from home
I work quite a bit from home – both because I can and because lots of things come up during the weekend/evenings. We have a mantra of “when it gets done, it doesn’t matter where you are” at Seedcamp, so I just stay home some days to focus (and have music pumping all day). The key […]
Tech support lifehacks
I worked for Mercedes Benz’ excellent customer service program during my undergrad. It was a fun job with great colleagues and I learned a lot from it. I derive massive lifehack value from these times until today, because it is actually quite easy to make customer service work for you (not the people, but the […]
Portfolio-Theorie mal anders
This exchange fund was created to allow First Round Capital entrepreneurs to contribute a small piece of the stock they own in their company — and share in the upside of all the other companies. via Redeye VC: Sharing and Exchanging…. Eine tolle Idee, um das eigene Portfolio zu stärken und die Gründer untereinander zu […]
WordPress Permalinks bei Host Europe
Nach einigen Problemen hab ich es nun endlich geschafft, bei meiner WordPress-Installation die “hübschen” Links anzuschalten. Diese sind laut meinen SEO Consultants David und Marco absolut unumgänglich, wenn es um Reichweite und Monetarisierung geht (wie hier also). Der Trick lag ganz einfach in der Verlegung der WordPress-Dateien in ein eigenes Unterverzeichnis. Das kann bei Host […]
Chrome jetzt offiziell mit Extensions und Bookmark Sync
Ich habe ja schon darüber geschrieben, dass ich Chrome super finde. Jetzt gibt es auch offiziell Extensions und die Synchronisation der Bookmarks in Google Docs. Der Klick führt zwar noch ins Leere, das sollte sich aber bald ändern. Charmantes Extensions- Icon, wie ich finde. Update: Dev Channel Extensions sind hier zu finden.