NYC Job Fair Email Gaffe Triggers Rejected Startups To Start New Job Fair

Competition for start-ups is getting stiff. Requirements for funding and expectations of traction increasing, even incubators are flooded with hundreds of applicants. Rejecting business plans and startups is hard work and surely a tough task, here's a very small lesson: don't email over 60 entrepreneurs and forget to BCC them.

Competition for start-ups is getting stiff. Requirements for funding and expectations of traction increasing, even incubators are flooded with hundreds of applicants. Rejecting business plans and startups is hard work and surely a tough task, here’s a very small lesson: don’t email over 60 entrepreneurs and forget to BCC them.

Yesterday NYC Startup Job Fair sent one rejection email to over 60 start-ups explaining how there were only 40 slots open and within 2 minutes everyone who was on the email thread began discussing starting their own job fair.

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