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Author here, our company also went through YC in 2015.

Email me with any questions: chris at laskie.co

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> 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?

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.

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.

You missed the sarcasm, GP was agreeing with you by means of a joke.

It's ok, no one forced you to read it I hope.

Sounds like hyper aggressive salespeople being parodied in a movie. But then again I know some people talk like that in real life.

Well done, and thanks for sharing your insight. Small gripe, I found this line in your article's opening remarks a unnecessary - "If that doesn't ring a bell, then please ignore this and go about your life a few million poorer."

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`.

A bit of feedback on your landing page: Something about "hyperlocal incentivization" caught my eye and I was thoroughly confused. Then read the whole paragraph and actually laughed out loud.

The next thing I did was actually look at the products, because you'd got me in a good mood.

Brilliant piece of copy.

Let’s talk pop up on https://laskie.co/ takes in an empty input.

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?

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

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.

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