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Re: How we built a $1M ARR SaaS startup

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Post by dang » Tue, Oct 06, 2020, 6:38 PM UTC

vmception wrote: post #120

dang wrote: post #115

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" Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith. " https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Getting a high revenue multiple isn't a bad faith assumption. my PR agents would push me to write similar articles and file it under "thought leadership". It would be interesting if other people had a similar experience. The end.

The bad faith assumption is reducing an entire article to some alleged motivation that the article didn't say.

If you're looking to have interesting conversation about similar experiences, that's great and definitely on topic, but you'd need to go about it differently. What you posted sounded snarky and reductionist.

Re: How we built a $1M ARR SaaS startup

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Post by cryptica » Tue, Oct 06, 2020, 8:16 PM UTC

seattletech wrote: post #64

cryptica wrote: post #59

It never made sense to me why these kinds of 'marketing', 'feedback gathering', 'a/b testing', 'email campaign management' and 'project management' tools seem to always make so much money when clearly they add no value at all to the businesses who use them or their customers. They just keep employees busy and create more jobs. I blame the Federal Reserve Bank's money printing. One of the Fed's 2 mandates is 'job crea…

My new disruptive startup will TEAR DOWN THOSE WALLS for the wall-less experience

Genius! How can I invest??

Re: How we built a $1M ARR SaaS startup

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Post by RhodoYolo » Tue, Oct 06, 2020, 9:01 PM UTC

>We never did any outbound marketing only inbound

Maybe this is just semantics but "Reaching out to product people for feedback" is the best outbound marketing there is.

Re: How we built a $1M ARR SaaS startup

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Post by cryptica » Thu, Oct 08, 2020, 1:54 PM UTC

moneywoes wrote: post #108

cryptica wrote: post #58

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>> The amount of programmers grows exponentially. I've seen stats claiming it doubles every 5 years. The worst part about this is that the world doesn't need so many developers. It also doesn't need so many marketers and data scientists either. The jobs are being created artificially as part of the Federal Reserve Bank's job creation mandate and financed by fiat money printing. The economy of the past decade is a com…

So what do you suggest to do them

Abolish MMT. Let corporations fire all the employees that they don't need. Let employees fend for themselves and allow them to experience the system as it really is outside of the protection of corporate crony-capitalism. It's the job of the state to protect the people, not corporations.

If you shelter a subset of the people, you make life much harder for all the other people who are not benefiting from that protection and have to work against it.

Re: How we built a $1M ARR SaaS startup

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Post by JoblessWonder » Mon, Oct 12, 2020, 6:50 PM UTC

biztos wrote: post #67

RangerScience wrote: post #30

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Fun story: The lead artist/dancer of https://www.skyfirearts.com/ had had that dream for years, and that "first lucky break" came when (8-9 years ago) he was getting coffee and the guy behind him in line was the guy for Tesla Coils in the US, who then helped Skyfire get up and running. AFAICT, what's repeatable / helpful is a bit more nuance about "how to make luck": 1) Know what you want so you can recognize it when…

Not advice exactly, but I have a few friends who've had lucky breaks like that, and I'm pretty sure it came down to: be interesting, confident, and friendly. Plus the things you mentioned. When they randomly met people who could open doors for them, they just seemed like interesting people to open doors for, and who wouldn't waste the opportunity nor abuse it. Anyway that's my take, but I'm still struggling with #1 a…

Those three things are so huge when it comes to making connections like the ones we are talking about.

Related to that, having the courage/gumption to notice that someone may be holding a door open for you and walking through! I have looked back at some interactions with people who I probably could have used (not abused) to further my career but I was locked in a mindset that I didn't think I was worthy of their attention/guidance even though they were offering it.