This week VC blogger extraordinaire, Dan Rua, regales us with a tale of social engineering, leverage, and Jedi Mind Tricks.

I’ve noticed a growing trend of entrepreneurs contacting me with an intro referencing Inflexion’s good reputation at TheFunded. It’s usually a tone of congratulations. I think this is brilliant yet subtle and leverages yet another Jedi Entrepreneur power gained from social media (one of the earliest being the LinkedIn-enhanced, you-and-I-know-the-same-person cold call heater).

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