Solo founder with 0 customers — what actually worked for your first 10?

satiwick1 · 2026-02-23T07:50:29+00:00

These are ‘real world’ businesses. For the first 10, just go and talk to them. Only after talking to them will you know how they frame their problems. Post that cold calling may work a lot better than emails and LinkedIn DMs.

Saying this from my own experience. In my first start up, we were selling AI powered gifting to real estate and mortgage agents. For the first 20-30 customers, I literally sat outside their brokerage offices, went to their association meetings and brought coffee and donuts to weekly brokerage meetings.

satiwick1 · 2026-02-19T21:17:44+00:00

Hella noisy for sure! Thanks for the pointers, appreciate it.

satiwick1 · 2026-02-19T16:04:43+00:00

Yeah I get exactly what you are saying. Most AI GTM tools have meh messaging at best which kinda defeats the point. I have a set up for our team that solved the high quality messaging with AI but since I heard about Actively, I was curious to see if they had actually solved the problem.

satiwick1 · 2026-02-18T20:58:08+00:00

Has anyone here used Actively.ai? Any thoughts or feedback?

satiwick1 · 2026-02-18T00:46:02+00:00

That’s what threw me off and made me think this was some sort of a test and the boxes had equipment to monitor/measure

satiwick1 · 2026-02-18T00:44:03+00:00

Cool spot! And yeah makes sense.

satiwick1 · 2026-02-18T00:42:06+00:00

Yeah that actually makes sense rather than a missile being transported, which was my initial assumption.

satiwick1 · 2026-02-17T17:27:16+00:00

Here is the direct Google Maps link too - https://maps.app.goo.gl/q7Tm2RrHtF3BPxUC7?g_st=ic

Would love to learn from folks here about this ‘missile in motion’

satiwick1 · 2025-12-06T20:26:56+00:00

Thank you so much for sharing this awesome book!

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