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Going from $0 to $2M ARR in 2 years

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Re: Going from $0 to $2M ARR in 2 years

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Author here, our company also went through YC in 2015. Email me with any questions: chris at laskie.co

> If that doesn't ring a bell, then please ignore this and go about your life a few million poorer.

This line is distasteful and detracts from the rest of what you wrote.

Re: Going from $0 to $2M ARR in 2 years

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post #11
post #5

Author here, our company also went through YC in 2015. Email me with any questions: chris at laskie.co

> If that doesn't ring a bell, then please ignore this and go about your life a few million poorer. This line is distasteful and detracts from the rest of what you wrote.

seems like dry humor :)

Re: Going from $0 to $2M ARR in 2 years

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post #5

Author here, our company also went through YC in 2015. Email me with any questions: chris at laskie.co

The article is actually useful, despite the annoying introduction line of `a few million poorer`. People could stop reading the article for whatever reasons.

Just one typo I believe, at the end of https://laskie.co/playbooks/bootstrapping-b2b-sales/cold-ema..., should be `same for emails` instead of `same for calls`.

Re: Going from $0 to $2M ARR in 2 years

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surprised you never gave an example of a frigid ice cold polar bear kind of cold email. could you drop one in the comments here?

Sure. I'll help as my company does cold email as a service. Greeting SNIP Relevance CTA Hey Bold, Saw your HN question about an example of an "ice cold polar bear kind of email." I write emails like this all day for companies like Boldslogan. Would be happy to walk your through it in 10 or 12 minutes. Zoom on Tuesday or Wed? C

Nice! You got me to check out your website :)

Re: Going from $0 to $2M ARR in 2 years

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post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> If that doesn't ring a bell, then please ignore this and go about your life a few million poorer. This line is distasteful and detracts from the rest of what you wrote.

seems like dry humor :)

What is the joke?

Re: Going from $0 to $2M ARR in 2 years

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

seems like dry humor :)

What is the joke?

If one has to explain a joke then either they're bad at it, it's a bad joke or they have the wrong audience....I'll leave the conclusion as to which is it to the readers :)

The article is about making money (even from the title)..the commented upon line is insinuating that if you think the article isn't for you (ie you just randomly stumbled upon it), then you obviously are not interested in making money...sarcasm :)

Re: Going from $0 to $2M ARR in 2 years

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What is the joke?

If one has to explain a joke then either they're bad at it, it's a bad joke or they have the wrong audience....I'll leave the conclusion as to which is it to the readers :) The article is about making money (even from the title)..the commented upon line is insinuating that if you think the article isn't for you (ie you just randomly stumbled upon it), then you obviously are not interested in making money...sarcasm :)

His language is really sloppy and amateur throughout. He also has this bad line, “Everything about a startup is sales”.

No it’s not, unless you’re selling snake oil.

Re: Going from $0 to $2M ARR in 2 years

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

If one has to explain a joke then either they're bad at it, it's a bad joke or they have the wrong audience....I'll leave the conclusion as to which is it to the readers :) The article is about making money (even from the title)..the commented upon line is insinuating that if you think the article isn't for you (ie you just randomly stumbled upon it), then you obviously are not interested in making money...sarcasm :)

His language is really sloppy and amateur throughout. He also has this bad line, “Everything about a startup is sales”. No it’s not, unless you’re selling snake oil.

Sounds like you're not interested in making money.
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