The first thing I ask of a new company that I’m advising/board:
« Let me setup the dev environment for your company’s product and ship a simple change to prod »
Investing in your developers is the strongest signal for a long term minded company and a team that I can work with.
“as per my previous email”
- weirdly formal
- passive aggressive
- might not get a reply
“if you’d used your fuckin eyes, Geoff”
- shows a passion for biology
- informal, first name terms
- even better if their name isn’t Geoff