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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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Post by sk5t »

goatherders wrote: post #10
boldslogan wrote: post #7

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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

FWIW this sort of email triggers my immediate shutdown reactions in several ways: use of "Hey" greeting from some unknown non-friend, general (albeit here not total) avoidance of first-person pronouns[1], phony-baloney specificity in time and duration for an initial meeting.

[1] "Saw your email," "Would love to hear more"--no, avoiding "I" does not make the writer appear stronger.

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

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Post by jshen »

sah55 wrote: post #31
jshen wrote: post #22

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I’m interested in adding value and helping make progress in the world, money is secondary, but I have plenty of money.

it's really easy to not care about money when you already have it.

Oh for sure, I grew up poor and am now on the other side. But that’s not what the author is talking about. He’s condescending to people that are making $250k/year for ”leaving millions” on the table. At $250k/year you don’t have to care about money a whole lot, and you can make that being a developer.

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

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Post by jshen »

knuthsat wrote: post #32
jshen wrote: post #30

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I’m an executive at a fortune 100 company. The article/post was sloppily written.

Fortune 100 is not a startup. It’s a giant wheel where 95% of the workforce is pretending they are doing something, including executives.

I was replying to his condescending assumption, “ I'm going to assume that you're an engineer”

Sales is important, it’s not the only thing.

BTW, most startups are miny cults where employees are suckered into taking a pay cut to “change the world with disruptive blah blah blah”, and as you can see from the author of this post, the founders are just trying to line their pockets.

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

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Post by woohoojoo »

1234fdsazxcv wrote: post #34
classics2 wrote: post #27

It’s possible to read your entire web site and still have no clue what your company does. Brilliant.

The article is just an excuse to sell their services. But agreed it's pretty vague. Also, the tone/bitchiness of the comments for the article are truly the worst I've ever read on HN in a long while. Raise the tone or just take it somewhere else.

I agree with classics2. Also, I'd suggest adding samples of everything for which Forward offers a service-- when I click 'whitepaper' for example, I'd like to see info about past examples of whitepapers or demos of whitepaper.

and, I think you're the one acting bitchy.

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

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Post by goatherders »

sk5t wrote: post #41
goatherders wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

FWIW this sort of email triggers my immediate shutdown reactions in several ways: use of "Hey" greeting from some unknown non-friend, general (albeit here not total) avoidance of first-person pronouns[1], phony-baloney specificity in time and duration for an initial meeting. [1] "Saw your email," "Would love to hear more"--no, avoiding "I" does not make the writer appear stronger.

It doesn't work all the time, but it works well enough.

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

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Post by knuthsat »

jshen wrote: post #43
knuthsat wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fortune 100 is not a startup. It’s a giant wheel where 95% of the workforce is pretending they are doing something, including executives.

I was replying to his condescending assumption, “ I'm going to assume that you're an engineer” Sales is important, it’s not the only thing. BTW, most startups are miny cults where employees are suckered into taking a pay cut to “change the world with disruptive blah blah blah”, and as you can see from the author of this post, the founders are just trying to line their pockets.

Yes, startups are definitely like that. I was lucky to not work in those kinds of startups.

What happened all the time is that I would look at competition and be surprised by their success. Their product would be extremely bad compared to ours.

I would be surprised by the amount of missing features (that they still listed in their product sheets). They would close million dollar deals promising features that they barely or never delivered.

But checking out their team, they would all be very experienced salesmen.

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