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I don't even know what to say
by Exuma 3y ago
I don't even know what to say
- ses1984 3y agoYeah, talk about mismanagement. > This is why accelerators like YC prefer cold outreach / emailing prospects during the early days of your company - it's free. It’s not free. I’m not sure what the rest of the article says but if the rest of it is as good as the beginning…
- Zetice 3y ago...it is free? It costs me nothing to send out an email.
- infecto 3y agoOnly if you are counting your time as zero which is not a great idea as a founder.
- benj111 3y agoBut if you're a 'founder' of a non VC company, you have less money than time, so you're better spending your time budget than your money budget. Of course the calculations if someone's throwing enough money at you that you can throw away 1.5m on marketing without results.
- chongli 3y agoIt costs you time. Time is money. Especially when you’re a founder with your hands full!
- stoniejohnson 3y agoIf you are doing it yourself, it costs you time. If you want someone else to do it, it costs you money.
- tester756 3y agowhat's the point of that pedantry? Managing ad campaign takes time too.
- BugsJustFindMe 3y ago"Something else also costs you" isn't a rebuttal to the statement that it isn't free.
- frumper 3y agoI don’t think you’d find anyone saying an ad campaign is free. A grandparent comment is saying a coldcall/email campaign is free.
- tekla 3y agoUntrue. Takes time, energy, and a worsening of your email reputation when people mark you as spam and all your effort goes straight to the trash.
- Zetice 3y agoThat's not the "cost" being discussed in the article, it's explicitly referring to dollar amounts, therefore the contextualized discussion is also about dollar amounts.
- marcosdumay 3y agoAll of the things on the GP have a cost in dollar amounts. And your time has a very direct one that you can trivially get with a calculator.
- Zetice 3y agoYour time does not have a very "direct" dollar amount, this is false.
- ses1984 3y ago“How much would it cost for me to pay someone to do this?” is pretty close. So is “how much could I earn in the same amount of time if I did something else?” It may not be strictly direct but it sets bounds around the value of your time. You could do cold outreach, or you could put yourself out on Uber or task rabbit and then put that money towards an ad campaign.
- Zetice 3y agoThis presumes falsely that you can come up with accurate numbers for those questions, or that the overhead involved in managing people is then quantifiable concretely. ...it also presumes that any of that is actually realistic; I wonder what TaskRabbit's ToS is like re: confidentiality, for example. "Hey TaskRabbit, pls develop my marketing strategy for my stealth startup, thanks!"
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- jhoelzel 3y agotry it in europe, see how quickly free will bankrupt you
- commonlisp94 3y agoAnd your customers know that too.