It’s cool to see this from Fred Wilson as I learn more and more about the European (Scandinavian in particular) startup scene. Some of you know that I’ve been working on a ‘stealth’ concept, and what you don’t know is that my partner and CEO is from Danmark. That has opened a great new pool of networking and investors that I had no idea was avaialble beyond the Valley/NYC/Boston circuit. We’re now using engineering teams from Slovakia and Brazil which makes us truly global - and that makes sense with our business model.
I hope we end up pitching our idea to Fred at some point as he opens his eyes for what these smart people with this weird language (Portuguese included) are doing.
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I’m still old school in the sense that I don’t write emails all in lower case and my IM’s and text messages are written in real words that you can find in the dictionary. I also have the practice of adding “PS” (or post scriptum) to my emails whenever there are ideas I want to add after the train of thought ceases. The “PS” surely made more sense when people used to write letters with ink and paper (and believe me I’ve done that a lot). Some of you will remember how was hard to insert an idea after writing the entire letter.
Regardless I think the PS is still applicable and sometimes it’s important to stress that something was thought after the process of writing an entire email.
PS: From the Wikipedia I found that writing “P.S.” was “wildly popular in the 1770s and was in several of the letters Paul Revere delivered on his famous rides.”
This describes exactly my inbox strategy. It’s so obvious that GMail was built with that in mind that I don’t understand why most people don’t get it (and I’m not even counting the poor souls stuck with Outlook).
“The basic premise of Inbox Zero is that you only have action items in your e-mail inbox. Everything else is archived or organize by a limited set of labels. One of the major setbacks of Outlook is search. There really is no comparison to the e-mail search capabilities of Google Apps. Even amongst thousands and thousands of e-mails, it’s easy to find the one you’re looking for. In Outlook, people tend to compensate for poor search capabilities by archiving their e-mail in (often) scores and scores of nested folders. The overhead associated with organizing and accessing data in this manner can often be overwhelming. “
I’m still old school in the sense that I don’t write emails all in lower case and my IM’s and text messages are written in real words that you can find in the dictionary. I also have the practice of adding “PS” (or post scriptum) to my emails whenever there are ideas I want to add after the train of thought ceases. The “PS” surely made more sense when people used to write letters with ink and paper (and believe me I’ve done that a lot). Some of you will remember how was hard to insert an idea after writing the entire letter.