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Introduction: I know a lot of non-technical people who would love to work in the venture-funded startup world, from consultants to finance people to other business types for which I'm not really sure exactly what it is they do. They hit obstacles trying to get into the startup world, finding that their skills are either irrelevant or hard to explain. My advice to all these people is the same: Write a blog. A blog can improve your life in enormous ways. Or to put it in business-speak: a blog has one of the highest ROI's of anything you can do. Put yourself in the shoes of startups looking for talent. First off – startups are desperate for talent. The problem is that it's very difficult to identify great people – startups search through loads and loads of candidates. Resumes and interviews only tell you so much about a person. It's really hard to stand out in a resume – you're not the only one putting over-inflated impressive-looking numbers and bullet points on your resume. And interviews
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1 I know a lot of non-technical people who would love to work in the venture-funded startup world, from consultants to finance people to other business types for which I'm not really sure exactly what it is they do. [sent-1, score-0.524]
2 The problem is that it's very difficult to identify great people – startups search through loads and loads of candidates. [sent-8, score-0.495]
3 " A new dimension of opportunity There's another huge advantage to having a blog besides being a mechanism to show that you're smart and insightful. [sent-17, score-0.538]
4 A blog opens up a whole new dimension of opportunity for you. [sent-18, score-0.452]
5 Instead of relying purely on outbound opportunities that you explicitly seek out yourself, you also will get inbound opportunities where people reach out to you with opportunities you never expected or dreamed of. [sent-19, score-1.267]
6 When you write a blog, you greatly increase the likelihood of getting awesome inbound opportunities. [sent-24, score-0.434]
7 By providing value to people publicly, like writing insightful posts on a blog, you open yourself up to serendipitous, "lucky" opportunities. [sent-27, score-0.599]
8 Getting readers Besides writing smart posts, you also need people to read your writing. [sent-28, score-0.541]
9 First off, the title of a blog post is incredibly important. [sent-30, score-0.531]
10 In very few words, you need to sell your potential reader that your blog post is going to be worth their time. [sent-31, score-0.654]
11 Second, I highly recommend using Twitter as a distribution platform for your blog posts. [sent-35, score-0.495]
12 The combination of Twitter and blogging leads to a beautifully virtuous cycle: your blog increases your Twitter following, and as your Twitter following grows you increase the reach of your blog. [sent-36, score-0.535]
13 Then when I go to conferences I seek out the people who I know and respect from their online presence. [sent-38, score-0.499]
14 It can drive a lot of readers to your blog in a short amount of time. [sent-43, score-0.486]
15 But occasionally you'll write something smart that gets on Hacker News and gets shared around. [sent-46, score-0.476]
16 Once you start blogging, you'll become attuned to random ideas you have throughout the day that would make good blog posts. [sent-60, score-0.436]
17 Most of my blog ideas start off as email reminders to myself. [sent-61, score-0.436]
18 You have to learn how to hook people into your posts and keep the post engaging. [sent-64, score-0.446]
19 You'll learn about the glorious world of internet commenting, where people constantly misinterpret what you say and apply very fallacious reasoning to your posts. [sent-65, score-0.489]
20 You really can't find a couple hours to pump out a blog post? [sent-75, score-0.422]
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