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▲ 32 r/startup+1 crossposts

Building as a founder has never been easier, but damn the solo founder life is lonely

I've been actually incredibly locked in over the last 2 months working on my latest startup solo venture.

Filming youtube videos, marketing, coding, cold calling customers.

The one thing I'm having a hard time with is there is no one I can talk to about this. My friends are fat lazy bums who sit around all day and spend their time not at work watching tv and playing video games.

When I'm at my desk at 11pm on a Tuesday it feels incredibly lonely.

I'd like to start a community of founders who are all in one place. Seriously forming a network of people who are DEDICATED TO THIS CRAFT and sharing and learning from each other. Let me know if you're interested ill DM you.

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u/johnlocke8 — 5 days ago
▲ 22 r/SaaSMarketing+3 crossposts

Building as a founder has never been easier, but damn the solo founder life is lonely

I've been actually incredibly locked in over the last 2 months working on my latest startup solo venture.

Filming youtube videos, marketing, coding, cold calling customers.

The one thing I'm having a hard time with is there is no one I can talk to about this. My friends are fat lazy bums who sit around all day and spend their time not at work watching tv and playing video games.

When I'm at my desk at 11pm on a Tuesday it feels incredibly lonely.

I'd like to start a community of founders who are all in one place. Seriously forming a network of people who are DEDICATED TO THIS CRAFT and sharing and learning from each other. Let me know if you're interested ill DM you.

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u/johnlocke8 — 7 days ago
▲ 7 r/buildinpublic+1 crossposts

How I got my first 10 B2B customers cold calling on my lunch break

Probably like a lot of you, I have a full time job (i work as a SWE in big tech) and I'm building my SaaS on nights and weekends. I'm lucky enough to work remote a couple days a week, so I started using my lunch breaks to cold call. I tried weekends and after hours first and people just dont really pick up and when they do theyre like why tf are you calling me on a weekend? So business hours on weekdays I think is optimal.

When I first started my voice was shaky, I was nervous, and I had no real idea what my pitch should even be. So I started recording the calls and posting them to YouTube to track how I'm improving and to demonstrate to people that cold calling is actually kind of effective if you call the right people and have a decent pitch.

I’m calling the YouTube series “Cold calling on my lunch break until I close 1000 customers”

https://youtu.be/qY-Bo2GJhng?si=2P4mg8AMTRXxel5C

A few things I've figured out so far:

Almost nobody wants to sign up for a free trial on the phone. 8 of my 10 customers came from asking for an email at the end of the call and then following up with a short demo link. The call is really just to get permission to send the email.

Also I’m thinking of creating a discord channel for people trying to learn how to cold call (unrelated to my SaaS), dm me and I’ll invite you :)

u/johnlocke8 — 10 days ago
▲ 50 r/SaaS

This is a visualization of my cold calling progress that I find very cool. As someone in my mid fourties, learning a new skill has been difficult but rewarding.

Basically out of 1,541 leads:

I made 1,327 calls

Which led to 613 answers

Which led to 82 closes → $23,487

Lots of rejection but this helps put things into perspective for me.

u/johnlocke8 — 14 days ago
▲ 196 r/TwoXChromosomes

Women now account for nearly 40% of new Florida business filings, up from around 30% in 2022. The biggest concentrations are in beauty (82% women), healthcare services (69%), and cleaning services (65%).

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u/johnlocke8 — 16 days ago