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Please take this advice to heart all you startups. I can't tell you how many times I have signed up for a new startup waitlist and then 6 months later I get an email from some ambigious startup name - "Your wait is up, time to join Uprocket" with no additional information. Wait, who is this, I don't really care anymore. I know its obvious to you but its not always obvious to others. Just add it to your signature for crying out loud. "Uprocket - We help startups solve the problem of people not knowing what they do by adding an email signature which tells people what they do"

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> Uprocket - We help startups solve the problem of people not knowing what they do by adding an email signature which tells people what they do

You could probably get a cool half million in seed money for this.

   To: all-employees@company.com
   From: elpresidente@company.com
   Subject: email signatures required.

Starting immediately, please use an email signature of the following format on all email messages, inside and outside.

   -- 
   Name McNamerson - Official Title
   Official Group Name - City, State, Country
   https://www.company.com/

Don't put anything else in. If you have trouble getting this set up, IT has put together a page for all our supported mail clients at https://www.company.com/internal/signatures

Thanks!

   -- 
   Edgar L. Presidente - Director
   Human Resources - San Francisco, CA USA
   https://www.company.com/

This is a good use case for http://example.com

Edgar forgot the comma that was mandated to appear between his state and country.

Not a good culture fit.

40% or less of your fellow employees will even open the email. Way fewer will follow the instructions.

Unless their salary depends on it.

A mail from the CEO of a start up being ignored? A dangerous career proposition...

> You could probably get a cool half million in seed money for this.

There are already multiple companies that do this. Not really any reason to raise venture money for it though.

That was part of why the comments was funny.

Are there actually? Can you point me to one such company?

Just google email signature company. E.g. Wisestamp comes to mind, but there are many others.

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