sigh, recurring email of a cs student at a major university that offers an MBA program.
Hi [tango],
I'm [zebra] and I am a student at the [bravo] business school. I found you through [school-directory] and I am contacting you because I have a promising opportunity in the [social|shopping|vanity-business] space, already receiving attention from potential investors. Not being technical myself, I could use some help from an [awesome|master-hacker|wizard] technical guy in order to build a [platform|app|buzz-word-flavor-of-the-week]. I was wondering if you'd be interested to chat over coffee sometime this week.
However, a lot of the people I talk to are through referrals, and they tend to be significantly more qualified. I've found that the distinction usually comes down to whether the founder considers "technology" to be the industry (e.g. I want to be the million-and-first person to create a friend-finding activity-discovering advertising-supported geolocation app) or whether technology is viewed as enabling advancements in other industries (e.g. I want to build Kickstarter for student loans).
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sigh, recurring email of a cs student at a major university that offers an MBA program.
Hi [tango],
I'm [zebra] and I am a student at the [bravo] business school. I found you through [school-directory] and I am contacting you because I have a promising opportunity in the [social|shopping|vanity-business] space, already receiving attention from potential investors. Not being technical myself, I could use some help from an [awesome|master-hacker|wizard] technical guy in order to build a [platform|app|buzz-word-flavor-of-the-week]. I was wondering if you'd be interested to chat over coffee sometime this week.
best, [zebra]
This is pretty much the flavor of many unsolicited emails CS students get. Hence, Whartonite Seeks Code Monkey: http://whartoniteseekscodemonkey.tumblr.com/
However, a lot of the people I talk to are through referrals, and they tend to be significantly more qualified. I've found that the distinction usually comes down to whether the founder considers "technology" to be the industry (e.g. I want to be the million-and-first person to create a friend-finding activity-discovering advertising-supported geolocation app) or whether technology is viewed as enabling advancements in other industries (e.g. I want to build Kickstarter for student loans).