I'm very interested in speaking with innovative people doing innovative things--and I want to be as accessible as possible. Therefore, I'm using Tungle.me to give people access to my free times and schedule themselves. I'm hoping that it will cut down on scheduling e-mails. You're more than welcome to just send me a regular old e-mail at charlie at firstround dot com, of course, or tweet @ me or IM me through Plugoo over on the right... but this might be easiest for meetings.
Here's my calendar: http://tungle.me/ceonyc
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I am, however, just one guy, and require some non-zero amount of sleep. Therefore, I'll put some limits and suggestions around this:
- I'm not going to take every proposed meeting. The bar for meetings isn't lower--I'm just going to try to make it easier from a logistics standpoint. So, I'm still going to give preference to the requests from folks whose deals First Round could add the most value to (early/seed stage tech deals), people who know others in my circle that can vouch for you, etc.
- Please give me as much context around the meeting as possible... Are you pitching? Do you just want feedback? What's the quick pitch of what your product does? Do you know anyone I know? All the standard e-mail pitch stuff-just now you can put it in the comments section of the request and we can try and save a few steps.
- Please don't be offended if I a) decline because I respect your time and don't see First Round getting to a "yes" on your business or b) opt for a call instead of in person.
- Scheduling next week will always be easier than scheduling this week. I get pretty booked up if it's just a couple of days in advance.
- Please leave 30 min in between free busy times... so don't wedge yourself in an hour slot or pick something right at the beginning or end of a free time split if you can. Sometimes, its unavoidable, but that will also prohibit travel and increase the chance that I'll run late.
Ok... so the widget above should tell you, as per my calendar, whether I'm free right at this moment, and if you click it, it will send you to a space where you can schedule time in the future. Here goes nothing:
