From Zero to Fifty: How AdPushup Closed $632K in Angel Investment

It’s interesting how con men’s confidence games are now being upvoted and celebrated by the Hacker News community. The celebration of bait and switch tactic in these emails is indicative of how shady startup culture is getting.

There is no sacred ground to maintain trust. Social proof, vanity metrics, out right lying is all fair game in this wild west. This is how credibility crumbles. This is how the startup scene becomes overwhelmingly a market of lemons as honest folks get pushed to the wayside and sociopaths rise amongst the chaos.

Very impressive Ankit. Really liked your hack to go cold emails. Even InMobi cold-called all the way to KPCB! So it's not unheard of. All the best on journey ahead.

Bit of a noob Qn: Is it the norm to have as much as 50 investors in your Angel round? Or are you guys an exception in that too? How do startups deal with so many people after funding? In investor updates and followups, sharing figures, revenues, execution strategy and then following up on those discussions. Is it all done kinda light-touch?

Thank you so much for a great article. It is very inspiring to read that you guys managed such awesome traction and growth rate before you closed that angel round. Could you share how you hacked your growth rate before funding ?

Thanks for writing this Ankit. This will help tons of people.