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Anand Sanwal

Anand Sanwal

Farewell Medium. My bleeding edge thought leadership is going elsewhere.

Going forward, if you want my uninformed opinions on topics, they will be shared solely in the CB Insights newsletter which is free and…

Jul 7, 2017

Jul 7, 2017

Anand Sanwal

Got multiple startup job offers? Here’s 8 tests to pick the right one

I was at a recruiting event at the engineering school of my alma mater, the University of Pennsylvania, recently and a student asked a…

Jul 16, 2016

Got multiple startup job offers? Here’s 8 tests to pick the right one

Jul 16, 2016

Anand Sanwal
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Decentralize.Today

Hey brother, can you spare some blockchain?

“Oh shit, I need some blockchain. Where do I get some blockchain?”

Jun 19, 2016

Hey brother, can you spare some blockchain?

Jun 19, 2016

Anand Sanwal

I analyzed 147 cold sales emails and 93.9% were shitty as hell

93.9% of the cold emails from business development / sales people are absolute and utter rubbish. That’s what I learned from analyzing 147…

Oct 17, 2015

I analyzed 147 cold sales emails and 93.9% were shitty as hell

Oct 17, 2015

Anand Sanwal

Rise of the wantrepreneur

This is from my now defunct personal blog but it seems just as or even more appropriate now so thought I’d bring it back to life with a…

Oct 12, 2015

Oct 12, 2015

Anand Sanwal

Dear Venture Capitalists — Some Thoughts on How to Improve Your Cold Email Pitches to Startups

As we’re scaling up CB Insights, we’ve gotten more inbound interest from investors. More often than not, the inbound interest comes via…

Aug 6, 2015

Dear Venture Capitalists — Some Thoughts on How to Improve Your Cold Email Pitches to Startups

Aug 6, 2015

Anand Sanwal
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ART + marketing

Bold & not very beautiful: 13 unicorn company websites before they became billion dollar companies

We took a look at the CB Insights’ real-time unicorn company list and the websites of 13 of the most valuable private companies before they…

Aug 1, 2015

Bold & not very beautiful: 13 unicorn company websites before they became billion dollar companies

Aug 1, 2015

Anand Sanwal

Why Seed Investment is Booming

The data behind why seed investment activity continues to remain strong and why it looks to continue.

Jan 23, 2015

Why Seed Investment is Booming

Jan 23, 2015

Anand Sanwal

54 Screwups as a Startup CEO

Dec 15, 2014

54 Screwups as a Startup CEO

Dec 15, 2014

Anand Sanwal

Anand Sanwal

Dad at home, CEO @cbinsights - We’re a bootstrapped 7 figure per annum SaaS business (yeah - we're old school like that)

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