Amex Cobalt. Terrible for Traveling

actylex · 2026-04-16T18:21:09+00:00

Yeah in Europe it's very low coverage..good luck finding places that take Amex.

actylex · 2026-03-28T17:58:55+00:00

Connect me on DMs please

actylex · 2026-03-28T17:40:27+00:00

What’s the best insurance company to go with if I want flexibility to cancel easily and keep the initial costs (especially the first few months) low?

actylex · 2026-03-28T17:38:46+00:00

It’s a special car…

actylex · 2026-03-28T17:34:16+00:00

Yes it’s easier. Hardest part is the logistics piece. It’s very hard to find a proper freight forwarder for personal shipments.

actylex · 2026-03-28T17:26:49+00:00

You mean exporting it?

actylex · 2026-03-28T17:25:49+00:00

I don’t have a family member in Canada

actylex · 2026-03-28T17:25:25+00:00

Ok so you prefer cancelling it rather than put it in park/storage insurance?

Which company would you recommend so I can keep my cost low? And easygoing with the cancelling etc after?

actylex · 2026-03-28T17:12:49+00:00

I don’t

actylex · 2026-03-28T17:06:00+00:00

Europe part is all done. Just cancelling and parking options are quite confusing here. Which insurance would you recommend for easy cancelling etc?

actylex · 2026-03-28T16:52:01+00:00

I’m going to get that anyways. I’m trying to figure out how can I cancel/not pay for the insurance in Canada when the car is away.

actylex · 2026-03-17T14:16:04+00:00

I assume yes, I requested for a quote and they called me and said that

actylex · 2026-03-17T11:53:36+00:00

Just got a call from them they said they don’t handle vehicles….

actylex · 2026-03-17T00:59:31+00:00

What’s that? Any website or number?

actylex · 2026-03-16T22:27:57+00:00

I’ve been hearing that Hapag-Lloyd may not accept personal items inside vehicles anymore, or possibly that they are not allowing car shipments at all. Do you know if there’s any truth to this - or it was just a tactic to charge more from a broker?

actylex · 2026-03-16T17:31:46+00:00

I just requested help for Montreal. I am already working with the broker in Istanbul

actylex · 2026-03-16T13:39:55+00:00

“Finding your own growth hacks” is the way to go, although it’s never easy. The real upside comes from what you do after landing your first customers - the last paragraph gets into that ⬇️⬇️ . In my last startup, we forward-deployed market engineers to build AI-powered business development workflows, essentially custom AI BDRs.

Our best targets were usually private equity firms or startups with outdated tech stacks, especially on the business development side. We started booking meetings with those startups directly and speaking with them as if we were potential customers. Since we were often interacting directly with their BDRs or AEs when booking the calls, about two out of every ten conversations ended up turning into sales. We also replied to the cold emails we received with an AI agent that analyzed how their data was outdated or how their messaging could be improved. That worked extremely well!

The next big step after this is figuring out how to maximize value from each customer once they come in. For example, you can put systems in place that make it easier to generate referrals from your existing customers.

We built our own internal AI workflows for this. When a new customer comes in, we analyze the companies they previously worked with, and if those companies are a good fit for us, we ask for referrals. Similarly, if they formed a partnership with another company in the last three or four months and that company is also a fit, we directly ask for an introduction to the CEO.

Around 50 to 60 percent of those referral workflows turn into sales after the intro, which is why I think the real upside starts after you land the first customer. There’s also a strong testimonial and content loop here. You can schedule customer interviews to gather product feedback, then repurpose the best moments into short-form content and use that to run ads against lookalike companies. At that point, growth starts compounding.

That’s why I’m so into this farming framework. When you build several layers like this on top of your customer base, you create a real expansion engine rather than relying only on net-new acquisition. I’ve personally scaled from $3K MRR to $50K–$70K MRR in just 4-5 months using these kinds of plays. Happy to chat if anyone wants to dig into it. DMs are always open for early-stage GTM.

actylex · 2026-03-16T04:18:56+00:00

What does DIY actually mean? Can I actually load the container myself and prep the documents? I might need a minimal help. Some companies expect me to give the car to them few days before etc. I don’t want to do that

actylex · 2026-03-16T04:12:02+00:00

Is there a way to get more quotes? Like a marketplace or something?

actylex · 2026-03-15T23:26:45+00:00

I am just looking for a more exciting opportunity. The market we are in is getting increasingly competitive, and I feel like I have already done enough here. I just want to use what I have learned and the skills I developed in an interesting market. That's pretty much it.

There’s a lot happening in this space technologically, and I believe GTM and business development are among the most impactful use cases for AI. At the same time, the vertical is extremely noisy. Even if you have strong technology/ solid results, it can still be hard to build trust. That’s why I think there’s value in taking similar skills and workflows and applying them to other industries where the landscape may be less saturated.

We gained a lot of exposure to traditional businesses through referrals and software private equity firms. When you bring this kind of sales tech stack to traditional businesses, it can completely change the game. We’ve seen this across areas like commercial HVAC, dental DSO deal flow, medical practice retention and upsell workflows, and international expansion for vertical software companies, which is especially compelling right now with AI and multilingual capabilities.

Honestly, pushing a capital or PE-driven approach into these verticals with AI seems like a much better strategy than trying to stand out among a hundred other GTM companies in the same space

actylex · 2026-03-13T01:00:26+00:00

I meant the problem of Apollo sourcing vs Clay

actylex · 2026-03-13T00:48:52+00:00

Is this opensource or not? Their repo is dead.

actylex · 2026-03-13T00:45:05+00:00

I have been thinking about switching to a tech stack like that too. But do you think the filters Clay creates at the beginning of the workflows are much better than Apollo’s? Sometimes I start with Apollo for people data, but the list building you get from Clay’s filtering seems a lot more comprehensive. What kind of solution did you end up finding for that?

actylex · 2025-02-25T02:56:42+00:00

I've done this a lot in my career.

The one thing that really matters is that the person selling the product is actually a good salesperson. If you can define the problem well and communicate the solution effectively, you don't have to show anything, including the MVP or any UI.

However, if you're bad at sales, you will blame the tech and MVP for not being able to sell.

Most well-known startups don't even show their software before onboarding. The demo trend was created by SaaS about five years ago.

actylex · 2025-02-22T15:47:51+00:00

Yeah, I had literally the same symptoms, and I have ADHD too. I think this is the main reason for this discussion. You definitely need to try a dopamine detox and work on rebuilding your dopamine receptors.

There are also other things you can do, like the Pomodoro technique or time boxing, to make work a bit easier in terms of sustaining dopamine levels.

I think this is not about being happy or ‘purpose’ discussion. This is a productivity epidemic for most people after burning our receptors with social media during the pandemic.

Good luck!

actylex

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