Email Signature for Startup Founders
Founders email investors, candidates, customers and press, often in the same hour. A founder's signature should be short enough to read in one glance and confident enough to need no decoration.
What a startup founder's signature should include
- Name, "Co-founder & CEO", company. That's the core.
- One rotating link with intent: the deck request page during a raise, the careers page during a hiring push, the product during launch.
- LinkedIn, diligence starts there.
- A calendar link only if you actually keep it open; a dead booking link signals chaos.
What to leave out
- "Stealth" mystique in the signature, it reads as noise to everyone who isn't an investor.
- Press logos and "as seen in", the deck's job, not the signature's.
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