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Om Pandey

An engineer • 2m

I saw a real problem, built a solution, and even created a working prototype. Then I did what every early founder does sent emails to people in the relevant industries to validate the product, get guidance, and maybe find support to build the MVP. The outcome? Zero replies. So now I’m asking out of curiosity, not frustration: What am I missing or doing wrong? Is it that cold emails rarely work without social proof? Is it because I’m building alone? Is my approach too early, or too direct? Or is this just the normal “invisible phase” every founder passes through before the breakthrough? I’m not discouraged—I just want to learn. If you’ve been through this stage or mentor founders, I’d genuinely value your insight. What should I focus on next? What am I missing?

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Vijay Gupta

Jumping from one sta... • 2m

1. Try best to attend networking event of your field, suppose you are building pharma related solution, then try to attend pharma talks and networking events. because that's where you directly get pharma giants and pharma people 2. Keep going, many people faced 0 replies before started getting one. 3. Just make sure you aren't directly mailing so big people of that field who don't engage much on media. and try more with those whom you see everywhere, their brand presence is there, they speak with others on media/social media, etc. For example in real estate directly mailing Hiranandani would not be good idea at first, but mailing to rizwan sajan would have more probability of reply.

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Vaishnav Meet

Tired of Low-Convert... • 2m

well I think maybe the audience is wrong , or the approach cold e-mails doesn't require social proofs as per my experience. also it depends how many cold emails you send and to which region. I can help you find the exact problem.

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Dhruvraj Chaudhary

NeverGiveUp • 2m

did you validate your product whether is it really solving the problem for other and is this problem a real problem for a large number of people or not

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