What's better, cold emails or "lukewarm intros"?
Should you put a suit on for Silicon Valley? Can you grow your
business by staying in "hacker houses" instead of hotels,
or use UberPool as a networking tool? And what, exactly, is the
"Digital Moose
Lounge"?
Rachel Craig, CEO and co-founder of MotionHall, answers these
questions and others in a recent blog post on
Medium. It's a helpful and entertaining piece, intended to give
tips to Canadian startup founders and executives who are making
their first (or fifth) trip to Silicon Valley. And of course,
we've published our own
Top Tips for Raising Capital.
So, what happens if you go down to the Valley (or New York, or
Chicago or Miami) and succeed? How can your startup capitalize on
these new connections and start building business in the United
States – and when should you start thinking about setting up
a U.S. branch office or incorporating a U.S. sister company? We
answer some of these questions in our recent