[lux]

Is it appropriate to cold-email people from your endorsement list? Just curious so we don't do anything faux pas.

I'm thinking that since it's a worldwide challenge, lots of companies applying won't have any real connection with a lot of these companies. And what about companies not on your endorsement list, is there a way to get external endorsements included too? Thanks!

[JohnHarthorne]

The people on our endorsement lis are all collaborative and are interested in meeting and helping startups -- so it's definitely OK to cold email. (be polite, obviously, and provide them with context). We try to get endorsers around the country and world, but there are limits to our reach and ability to vet the universe obviously ... let us know whom we should add to our list if you think someone is missing and we'll investigate for next year. Our hope is that remote experts will be able to connect you to one of the existing endorsers in the meantime. Send an email to endorsements -at- masschallenge.org you have questions or problems. We are a very small team but are serious about reviewing and responding to inquiries. Thanks!