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Depending on closed platforms with complicated terms of engagement that keep changing without being intimated is alarming!! Two recent incidents ❇ Linkedin taking down profiles of a few friends because they use an automated prospecting tool. Everyone knows its a grey area how they find who to block and when to block. ❇ Another friend during a producthunt launch got his profile flagged and taken down for a few hours while he was executing his distribution strategy for the launch. Founders/GTM team needing predictable channels to focus on is a topic of discussion and especially when you are early stage and working with a lean team. Every effort you take matters and it takes a lot to trust a channel and start adding it to the overall funnel strategy. There are a few channels which still is somewhat free space to engage and execute being your good old email marketing and website traffic. It just that we need to adapt to the changes but yet who know the written rules. I believe we need to revive them and leverage AI for the same. At zeroztep me and Akshay have been looking at this problem at large and have some exciting insights to share and the first one is, Platforms you don't control have to be used to only for those prospects you think you are 100% sure you need toreach out. Linkedin should not be a part of your spray and pray and PH not every time you need eyeballs. Pick and choose who needs your attention more. PS: Having said that we are doing our first ever Product Hunt launch on September 27th. Will keep sharing the experience here. We are going-to-market in public. If we learn something more you folks will too. #gtm #producthunt #linkedin #outbound #buildinpublic

Event Alert 📢 HSR Founders Club and Pienza is bringing another episode of our GTM Conversations. Here is an exclusive opportunity to interact directly with Mike Weir, current CRO of Finalis and former CRO of G2. This will not be just a broadcast session. We are selecting a handful of founders to ask specific questions about US GTM to Mike and get answers. If you have a pressing GTM challenge or a decision about US GTM you are trying to make, this is your opportunity to ask that directly to Mike. We will broadcast the session so that a wider set of audience can listen in and learn from the answers. If you have a question to ask Mike or if you just want to listen in, registration link in comments Jofin Rapti Sandeep Nikhil zeroztep will be there! See you all!

Last week was all about meeting folks in Banglore! Learning negotiations with our OG HSR Founders Club and Sales 101 folks and then SAASCON. Meeting familiar folks at #SAASCON was a good refresher. Maalav Ishan Vijetha Rohan Premsanth Aquibur Keshav damn those two days and the fun we had, brought in a lot of energy to move forward: Thanks for the shout out too. The week ended with some amazing conversation with Harshvardhan Astha Sameel and the rest of the folks at Sales 101 and the afterparty. GrowthSpree - Growth Partners For Early Stage SaaS's event attires need a special post and that's coming up soon. The Banglore energy was full on.

Are your outbound efforts feeling more like "out-of-bounds"? Is your pipeline drier than a PowerPoint presentation on tax law? HSR Founders Club has joined hands with Sales 101 and zeroztep to curate a fun meetup and discuss the great sales resurrection to help you go from cold calls 🥶 to Gold Calls 📞 ➡️ 💰 In this not-so-serious but totally essential gathering, we'll tackle: 📌 Why your leads are ghosting you harder than your Tinder matches 📌 How to make your value prop pop like the last kernel in the microwave 📌 The art of closing deals faster than you close your laptop at 5 PM Don't let another quarter slip by wondering why your "sure thing" prospect suddenly "needs more time." (it's happening way too much in #saas) Come laugh, learn, and leave with a toolbox fuller than your office snack drawer! Watch Sonakshi - CEO of Bik, Manuel CRO of Clootrack in conversation with Rejoe of zeroztep chat about all things sales and outbound. Shoutout to Harshvardhan and team Sales 101 for enabling this meetup. Reserve your spot now (🔗👇) Seats are limited - unlike your potential for success ☀ https://lu.ma/f02t4hjf #SalesRevolution #GTMGlowUp #OutboundOverhaul

After the first edition in the GTM Series we were so stressed, we need something better to top it as the crowd enjoyed the candid conversations with Aquibur Rahman and Premsanth R. So here we are with the second AMA in the series. I am happy to host Sonakshi Nathani and Manuel Oothria Raj on July 10th At HSR. We will. have a candid discussion on Sales Pipeline and some specific experiences and insights. We are discussing experiences and opinions around 1. Sales Pipeline 2. Channels and Strategies 3. Metrics especially the red flags and green flags 4. Global Sales Join us if you are tackling, battling or acing sales. PS: We are bringing the OG HSR Founders Club energy networking right after the AMA. zeroztep Sales 101 HustleHub Event Invite in the comments

Let the HSR energy start flowing again! zeroztep, HSR Founders Club and The D2C Folks bringing in the the first of a 6 part series in GTM where we disuss Marketing, Sales and the tried tested approaches. Hear from Aquibur Rahman, Premsanth R and Raunak Dembla about the GTM efforts especially while going on to non domestic markets! Date: 14 June 2024 Venue: HSR Here is the link to get an invite: https://lu.ma/rd5uvb2d

We are thrilled to announce our first speaker for the "SaaS Journey: Going 0 to 1 for Global Markets" event on 14th June - Sumit Khandelwal, Co-Founder at Xoxoday (by Giift)! Sumit is a visionary leader with a remarkable journey in the SaaS industry. He has successfully taken the company from inception to a global presence. His expertise in launching and scaling SaaS products will provide invaluable insights to all attendees. Event Details: 📅 Date: 14th June, 2024 🕑 Time: 7 PM - 10 PM 📍 Location: TBA Registration link: https://lu.ma/rd5uvb2d Co-Partners: HSR Founders Club, zeroztep, The D2C Folks Join us for an evening of insightful discussions and networking. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from one of the best in the industry! Stay tuned for more speaker announcements and event updates. Secure your spot and get ready to take your SaaS journey to the next level. Rapti Gupta | Rejoe Sudarsan | Sandeep Devarapalli | Nikunj Jain Founders Club #SaaSJourney #SaaSFounders #GlobalMarkets #StartupGrowth #ProductToMarket #ScalingSaaS #SaaSExperts #TechLeadership #Entrepreneurship #NetworkingEvent #Innovation #BusinessGrowth #TechEvent #MarketExpansion #StartupSuccess #foundersclub #fc

Day 2-4 building zeroztep from HSR: Chicken or egg it is. - Building the backend full-time. All the scraped data are now in Turso - A database of around 16M companies have been created as a table in GCP. On to Supabase now 💪 - Wireframes for MVP is progressing: - Picked up a micro SAAS on the way. A tool that can help contextual personalisation for SDRs. Not a Lavendar or Humantic but fingers crossed here. - User interviews are at 7/100 🔥 Also met Sahaj who wore a crazy t-shirt. Founders at HSR have dope wardrobe.

Day 1 at HSR - building zeroztep. 🔥 Let there be light moment. - Started the day with calls with our design partners. Rootfor.xyz: Ashik and team were looking to scale their user research calls for their AI lead CRO tool. We recently ideated about picking hot conversation as a intent signal for cold outbound. We tried building a dataset around this and was time to put it through a litmus test. Created a short 7 day sequence with 190 prospects who were talking about this product. - Sandeep was talking about 100 user research interviews to create a jobs to be done framework and we picked it up. Created a questionnaire based out of Mom Test. Finished a blurb around who and what we want to talk about it. We are currently circulating it using communities and got out first 2 calls booked. 2/100. - Ashik came back with the results of the campaign: 2 positive replies within the first 5 hours of running a campaign. A lot of validation around "Contextual Reachouts" we stand for. Small win. - Building MVP is still stalling. Bandwidth is becoming a serious issue and we decided to add a few members to our tech team. #hiring for data engineers and front end developers. - Evenings are for HSR Founders Club afterparty planning these days. Hunting venue, deciding menu. Finishing conversations on partnerships and event calendars. We are so damn ready to host other founders now. A lot of exciting stuffs here. Met fellow founders Kajal, Veer along with Rapti and Sandeep. Good end to a busy day On to the next ☀ Rejoe

HSR Founders Club is one year old. Started as a whatsapp group for friends who were building their own startups around HSR, Banglore has now grown to be 450+ member strong community that helps each other from day to day chores of building an organisation, party and celebrate together on the good days and even to have a shoulder to crib and cry on the bad days. Personally this has been one of the most fulfilling experience I have been part of. While building zeroztep every day have been a challenge and a lot of them became simpler since I had support from these many founders at HSR. Sharing a few of those times when another founder from HSR Founders Club bailed me out. Sandeep Rapti Nikhil have been always there a call away from day one helping me ideating and keeping my mental space as clean and productive as possible. Most of the days when I feel low it was just a call and 15 mins later we would be sitting at any one of those cafes in HSR with some candid discussions. Akshay Hangloo for selflessly putting in efforts helping me build data pipeline and scraping systems. Possibly meeting Akshay was a point at which the whole idea of building a product started taking life. Rison and Manoj for always coming in with the tech support whenever I needed an expert eye on the tech side. Nishant and Sushant for always hosting the poker nights and keeping it chill at weekends. We still got a lot of FIFA sessions left :P So here is what we are doing from now on. We are going to build in public and starting tomorrow I will start posting blurbs around how we are building the product here at zeroztep. PS: Attaching a few photographs from the memory lane remembering "How I Met My Fellow Founders"