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Doctorow: Ninth Circuit ruled LinkedIn cannot use CFAA to block scrapers
“HiQ was scraping LinkedIn to produce employer analytics. LinkedIn turned a blind eye to it until they launched their own analytics product. Then they tried to block them out and sue them under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. Not only is hiQ won in court and …”
Hockenmaier: Early big tech growth playbooks mislead startups without product-market fit
“I actually think like the legacy of that growth team, and then like Twitter and LinkedIn and the others that followed is actually maybe problematic when we think about some of the applications of growth later on, because they were applied in this case of like …”
Paffenholz: Multi-step, multi-channel candidate outreach campaigns work in every case
“Multi-step campaigns will work in every case, and you'll want to distribute that outreach across multiple channels. So think emails plus LinkedIn steps. Plus if you have a different way of getting in touch, like a Twitter DM can make a big impact as well.”
Nadella: LinkedIn merged design, engineering, and product into full stack builders
“Like, you know, at LinkedIn, I think they took multiple of these functions the design function, the front end engineer function, the product function, put them all together and said, we're going to have full stack builders.”
Paffenholz: Sales candidates respond better on LinkedIn while engineers prefer email
“Good sellers are often particularly active on LinkedIn because they're also communicating with their prospects there and so response rates tend to be higher there. For engineering, in the comparisons we've seen customers do, oftentimes emails get better respon…”
Paffenholz: Multi-step email campaigns outperform single LinkedIn messages
“Instead, you're orchestrating this multi-step campaign, and so with those multiple steps, you're going to get a better response rate on email than you would with a single message on a LinkedIn.”
Epstein: Cold email is generally a better outreach channel than LinkedIn
“I found that the ideal channels to contact are email is usually better. LinkedIn is usually worse.”
Epstein: Targeting uncommon commonalities maximizes cold outreach conversion
“You want to try to find the uncommon commonalities with the people that you're reaching out to. Now, uncommon commonalities are things that you have uniquely in common with somebody else. Things that are not obvious to have in common with other people... You h…”
Masood: Vet VC associate influence via LinkedIn tenure and board roles
“I think the most important thing is to meet with senior associates that have influence and how you can figure that out is really just go onto their LinkedIn and see how long have they been at the firm. Are they someone who's really an analyst, but has the asso…”
Junestrand interviewed 100 lawyers by offering to pay their hourly rate
“The first thing I did was I interviewed a hundred lawyers. I had this good hack on LinkedIn. I texted them asking if we could have lunch. And I would pay their hourly rate. And I could, you know, definitely not afford it. And none of them would, you know, impo…”
LinkedIn, Reddit, and Discord are top channels for finding early users
“When asking YC founders how they found their early users, some of the most common answers were LinkedIn, Reddit forums, Slack or Discord communities, and sometimes in-person events.”
YC reintroduced resumes after founders kept checking applicants on LinkedIn
“We actually now do ask you for a resume just because, you know, after, after not having it for a long time, a lot of times the first thing founders would tell us, you know, when we ask them how, you know, how they're liking the product is, well, this is great,…”