Mark Hadfield

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@vahidf24 @sahin I think the larger point is that investors don't want massive amounts of cold inbound; they want carefully curated inbound from people they trust.

[Mark Hadfield @Mhadfield]

People are six times more likely to follow people than companies.

That number comes up every time I look at platform data. Your own behavior lines up with it too. You scroll past every corporate page without a second thought. You stop for an executive who posts what they actually think, what they got wrong last quarter, or how they made a call that mattered.

Most owners still hand the whole thing to a team and expect the logo to do the work. The team posts the same polished updates. Engagement stays flat. The founder stays invisible.

The fix is simple. Put yourself out front first. Talk about the decisions you make, the problems you see, the results you get. The company story comes along for the ride once people know who is running it.

Your audience already decided they want the person, not the brand. Act like it.

Building: AgentCraft (dot) ai
Grow your personal brand in minutes per day with voice notes

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@EcomPadrino_ If you're in the office at 2 a.m. and your team is not something's not right, call those bastards up and get them to work.

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@kylegawley If you're a legend in your own mind, you can also build rockets that land on their tails. Before that time, we should just focus on web applications that do useful things.

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@MartinGTobias After this raise, people start spending money. That pushes the burn rate up. That adds to the pressure. Next thing you know, you're looking at the next raise and feeling stressed again. And so the cycle repeats.

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@TheJeremyHaynes I don't know man. I would find it annoying if I had a sales call scheduled and the salesperson kept on trying to pre-sell me when I'd already agreed to the call

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@SullyBusiness You can learn a lot from listening to your grandfather; cut the bullshit, get out there and drive some revenue. It's as simple as that.

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A lot of VCs get very excited about one thing, like a groundbreaking new company that has massive traction. They spend the next six months looking for the next best thing, which in their mind looks a lot like the last thing that went crazy. This is how you get silly comments like "can you replicate an exchange server into Dropbox?" Dropbox was the last thing that went crazy. And so now everything needs to get replicated into it.

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@badcryptobitch @MCovBrown I think if you can get to a million a year, you can get to ten million a year. The market is massively large, so why are we wasting time here? (I am referring to business revenue, not personal earnings)

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If you think the job market is tough in America, try a place like Africa; there are literally no jobs available. And you have to create your own job. This is a discipline that many Americans can learn from, because this is the future for America with AI. Stop expecting people to employ you and get out there. Find a need and meet that need. That's the definition of creating your own job. Thank me later.

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@NickB2005 A CEO or founder can learn more from getting out in front of people and talking to them than 10 weeks in a boardroom listening to the executive team talk about the issues and trying to come up with solutions. I have done both.

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@fasterfreedom I've never had a lot of respect for people that inherited a lot of money. In my view, they generally don't appreciate it. They don't understand how hard it is to earn it and they generally do not deserve it. Of course, there are exceptions.

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@vijaayprajapati Lessons never stop compounding no matter what it is you're learning. Some of them good, some of them bad. The compounding happens either way.

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@danielkleach At one of my previous companies, whenever people would ask us for a discount, we'd tell them that the price was going up next month. This closed deal after deal and we hit record after record. It's a great strategy, but you do have to, of course, put the price up next month.

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@Dwriteway Always remember that people pay for what they perceive as valuable. Giving away something for free or heavily discounted has its place if you have other objectives, but if that's your knee-jerk reaction to sales pressure, it's a race to the bottom.

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@MCovBrown Well, not everybody wants to succeed in life, I guess.

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@vijaayprajapati Nobody ever saved their way into wealth, but lots of people spent their way into bankruptcy.

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@PedroGuiti An impressive feature list is an oxymoron. Nobody wants an impressive list of features; what people want is a solution to a pressing problem, ideally a great solution at a great price to a big, painful problem.

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@russellbrunson This being true, why do you keep posting these pithy little aphorisms?