Opaque markets you will have to navigate in life: - Raising VC money - Selling your company - Dating - In some cases: Renting an apartment & buying a house - In some cases: looking for a job No follow-up usually means no interest (or in maybe 5-20% of cases, the need no truly longer exists) There are some areas where you can tastefully follow-up without showing desperation if they item you're trading has materially changed in value. You can do this via: - backchanneling - some sort of public peacocking (press release, instagram story, launch video, etc.) If it's really material, you can just follow-up But generally, no follow-up = no interest (unless its unilaterally on one party to follow up ie dating in america). But you have to be careful to not seem desperate. As soon as someone smells desperation, it's over