I'm sure the intentions were good, but I found the tone of the email to be condescending and obnoxious. e.g.,<p><pre><code> We’re better than that, and soon you will be too.</code></pre>
Almost think it would have been more useful just to give him a list of blogs(and twitter users) to keep up with. This will give him a sense of the startup community, and allows him to keep up with services he can look into using under his own will.
See here and compare
<a href="http://blog.siliconglen.com/2009/10/web20-defintion.html" rel="nofollow">http://blog.siliconglen.com/2009/10/web20-defintion.html</a>