Your first statement just isn't true. Your last sentence is. When you connect your Gmail to Signal, it infers who your strongest relationships are, with the idea that those are the people who'd give you the warmest intros to investors. You can ask those people to join you on Signal, and if they do, you'll see which investors you can get to (e.g. a strong intro) through them. Compare that to the LinkedIn process today ("hey I saw you're connected to X" ... "Yeahhh but I don't really know them. You wouldn't want an intro from me" ... rinse and repeat) and you start to see one of Signal's benefits.
Good thoughts here. Worth noting that Signal doesn't really gain anything from your Gmail data other than the ability to provide you network benefits via the relationship strengths implied by that data. And you don't need to connect your Gmail to use the service. You can sign in with email/password and use all the investor finding tools, which is arguably Signal's primary benefit right now. There isn't a great tool out there to find investors (and similarly, for investors to effectively broadcast what they do and do not want to see). That part isn't chicken and egg. You can use Crunchbase, AngelList, etc., but it's a slog. Signal should keep getting better in that regard.
Sign in with username/password, then. Signal doesn't require Gmail. You can add your Gmail later if you want to / see the benefit to you in doing so. Signal's biggest benefit to founders right now is the investor searching/finding capabilities. You don't need to be Gmail authed to get value from that. If you build, say, a target list of 50+ investors in Signal, you then might want to see your strongest intro paths to those investors. That's when you can consider the Gmail auth. Always up to you.
Tons of investors are geography-agnostic. The biggest benefit of Signal right now is simply helping you identify the right investors based on check size, industry preferences, past investments, etc. And I'm sure there are investors in your local area; you should add them to Signal (and invite them to connect if you know them). If your local investor community gets on, that'll give you an outsized benefit.
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Nice that you've done this via your own methods. Per taking photos when in social gatherings, we offer the ability to skip the photo when you'd rather not interrupt your conversation. That said, the Instagram-ization of everything has made photos at dinner more socially acceptable IMO.
The ability to follow people at your goal weight and/or people who stick to a routine that intrigues you is something incremental to the personal blog approach. Regardless, you should check out TwoGrand. Would appreciate any thoughts/suggestions.
I remember buying the steering wheel for Midtown Madness, which was larger than many desktop monitors today and required a near-bolting to your desk, and feeling like I was on the cutting edge of gaming.