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@blueprintsmb22 Assuming that limits new business to a semi local area? Are you finding any industry concentration in new/existing business?

@InVadePaXity spent $30k on an agency - zero. cold calls/emails. limited response rate. commission only sales guy showing up in person has been the best return. my industry is old school. they like to talk to pple in person.

What do I like about manufacturing? The rules of the game are simple and easier to follow than my old W2 life. In my old W2 life managing a portfolio of stocks, I had to react to every new piece of information whether it was company specific or macro (interest rates, geopolitical, etc) and decide if I needed to change the book. The job was fun and engaging but also incredibly stressful. It took a massive toll on my ability to be present for my wife and daughter so I decided to make a change. Now my job is simple => work with my small 10 person team and manufacture physical product our customers are happy with. I feel a responsibility to my customers but also to my employees. 11 families (including mine) rely on my ability to bring in new business to keep the machines running so payroll is not interrupted so we can all feed our families. The constraint is people. Nobody wants to work into the evenings. Factory closes at 4pm. Timecards are punched. Parking lot empties at 4:05pm. I shut down the factory myself and pickup my daughter from elementary school every day. She (8 years old) still likes me so that's cool. I have dinner with my family every night. This lifestyle has more boundaries for me, and my family and I are happier. That said, bad shvt happens daily. Today 3 machines weren't working so I called my maintenance guy at 430am to come in at 5am to fix them. An employee still hasn't showed up. I have 15 emails from customers wanting to know what the status is for their orders from April. But this is all manageable. Most things can be fixed. Make a good product. Deliver in a reasonable time frame. Pay your employees so they can feed their families. That's it. Very simple. My industry has gotten punched in the face the last 3 years as demand as been weak (tariffs wrecked us last year,) but I haven't let anyone go and right now as demand has picked up, my employees have told me they have NEVER made more money in their life and they are grateful I didn't let any of them go when my competitors were firing people left and right last year. I wake up with a simple purpose now. Keep the machines running. Pay my employees so they can feed their families. Be home for dinner. If I can do this on a weekly, monthly and annual basis, everything will work out (I hope.)

@zanehengsperger @snowmaker Meaning Nox was just a concept in your mind before applying or you were already beginning to build and applied to accelerate?

@snowmaker can confirm

Little known fact: many of YC's best companies applied on a whim, a few hours before the deadline.

@natolisnuggets Been saying this for a while, I bet we see a rise in community events/areas purposely removing tech (think locking up your phone before a comedy show).

In a world of AI -- I am bullish on in-person events & communities. -Golf outings -Concerts -Sport events -Micro speaking events -Professional dinners with peers -Workout classes There is a world of people who are in a way rebelling against the fabricated digital world that AI is naturally creating. As a result, people will crave human connection & to LIVE.

@JamesonCamp @amasad Biggest issue being cross team collaboration or multi-threading agents to work on different portions at the same time?

@amasad This solves a GIANT PIECE of the issues I’ve had in the past

Software isn’t merely technical work anymore. It’s creative. Introducing Replit Agent 4. The first AI built for creative collaboration between humans and agents. Design on an infinite canvas, work with your team, run parallel agents, and ship working apps, sites, slides & more.

@salesxsaas @MikeBoscia I’m mostly looking at airports and public safety companies. Big struggle is smaller departments and counties.

@MikeBoscia @InVadePaXity Ecom fairly hard to capture in general for small businesses at least but between ZI & waterfalls i believe youll find 50% more contacts than Apollo alone

Apollo has become hands down the worst data partner we’ve ever worked with Ever changing documentation, continued API degradation & heavy rate limiting, continued price hikes (no grandfathered pricing granted), data inconsistencies & the absolute worst SaaS support you can find.

@natolisnuggets I’d definitely join this

Would anyone want to jump in a group and jam in AE AI use cases?

@iamliamsheridan Claude

Claude Opus 4.6 can contact every decision maker in your market In just 45 days. While everyone's obsessed with "AI SDRs" spamming inboxes, we built something different. Claude as a research copilot. Inside a human-led outbound engine. We're not automating conversations. We're automating the grunt work that kills productivity. Here's what it does: → Ingests your ICP and past wins → Scans raw lead data to surface actual decision-makers (not interns) → Pulls 3-5 real signals per account for messaging → Outlines multi-contact plays for Tier 1 accounts Humans still decide who to contact, what to send, and who gets booked. Claude Opus just handles the spreadsheet hell. Result: Fewer junk meetings. More calls with people who can actually sign. I just put together a breakdown covering: • How we use Claude to clean and filter lead lists • Our exact prompt structures for decision-maker discovery • How we combine Claude Opus 4.6 + ChatGPT/Gemini without building a bloated AI stack • Real workflow examples from our outbound engine This is the same system we use internally to book qualified pipeline. No fluff. Just the actual prompts and process. Want the "Claude Outbound Copilot" breakdown? 1. Connect with me 2. Comment "CLAUDE" (must be following - RT for priority access)

@techsaleshackz 👀 following along because ZoomInfo sucks

Okay tech sales X, need ur help real quick What is the best contact data tool? Apollo, wiza? Looking for the best bang for buck w/ accurate data

@BenyaminHolley Salesforce

If I started at a new company tomorrow as a Salesforce/CRM admin, the first thing I'd do is have an AI agent read and understand my entire orgs schema before I touched anything. (I'm giving away the prompt I would use to do it.) Not click through Setup for two weeks. Not reverse-engineer undocumented flows by asking five different people what each picklist value means. I'd connect Claude Code to Salesforce through the CLI and run a single prompt that spawns multiple agents to crawl everything in parallel. One reads the full schema: every object, field, relationship, and record type. Another pulls reports and dashboards to understand how the company actually measures pipeline. Another maps validation rules, flows, and automation to surface the business logic nobody documented. The agent is way better at reading the code than I am. Hundreds of custom fields, validation rules, SOQL queries. It can tabulate all of that in minutes. But that's not what I actually need. What I need is the story. How does a deal move through this org? How does a customer service case get routed? Where do closed-won opportunities go after they close, and what triggers along the way? The code is just the mechanism. What it does is what matters. So instead of dumping a spreadsheet of field names, the agent interprets the configuration and writes a plain-English narrative of how your org actually works. The story of your Salesforce that nobody ever wrote down. A note of caution: one giant context document is actually worse than no context. So the prompt doesn't just generate a massive dump. It architects a modular reference system. A main file that points to sub-documents by domain: schema in one place, automation logic in another, reporting structure in another. When you're building an Opportunity flow next Tuesday, Claude Code loads the relevant context for Opportunities, not 200 pages of your entire org. Then everything compiles into multiple context documents that Claude Code can reference permanently. From that point forward, every time you build a flow, write a query, or restructure a report, it already knows your org. No more re-explaining your schema every time you need something. This is one of the foundations of context engineering :) Your first month stops being "what does this field mean?" and starts being "these 40 fields on the Opportunity object haven't been updated in six months, here's which ones we can deprecate." I already built this as a useable prompt. All you need is Claude Code and one CLI login to your org. Comment "Salesforce" and I'll send it to you. Must have dm's open or I can't send you anything.

@FidelCacheFlow Trust Fidel

The Cold Calling Framework responsible for $100mm+ in Sales Qualified Pipeline & Millions Closed Created 10 page step by step Cold Calling Guide. To move from "smiling and dialing" to strategic, insight-driven outreach that disrupts the prospect’s status quo and secures a discovery meeting. This guide provides a comprehensive framework and best practices for successful cold calling, designed to empower sales reps to confidently engage prospects and maximize conversion rates. Like + Comment 'Trust Fidel' for DM Access

@FidelCacheFlow @L8rG8r007 Wouldn’t have guessed TT shop. You doing something similar to dropshipping there or am I off base?

@L8rG8r007 Fidel & TT shop

Today is a special day Officially done with my Corporate Career as Tech Sales Account Executive. Its been a fruitful 7 years as an IC, that offered me top tier business & sales acumen that lead to amazing opportunities, mentors, clients & many tech sales friends along the way Owe this tech sales game everything. Bittersweet - but is now time to bet on myself, focus on scaling wifi businesses and SDR Contract Stacking Operation Here’s to a new chapter 🥂

@TaylorEldredge @TheRealEstateG6 How did you fund the first deal?

Two years ago, I got laid off from a tech startup. Instead of finding another job, I bet on myself. Paid a random guy on X (@TheRealEstateG6) $7.5K to teach me multifamily real estate. That decision changed my life. Just sold my first deal that I bought 15 months ago: - Purchase: $655K - CapEx: $175K - Sold: $1.2M Now I have a partner, and we’re closing on a 76-unit that’s only 20% occupied. We’re investing $1.5M in CapEx to bring rents to market and stabilize the property. Crazy what happens when you go all in, stay consistent, and bet on yourself.

@_jameslincoln Email

This is the cold email infrastructure we use to get to 60k emails/mo. - smartlead - outlook / godaddy - hypertide - 466 inboxes If you want the video walking through it all comment EMAIL.

@FidelCacheFlow Do you view stacking SDR contracts with a main AE role as viable or pushing it?

No because it’s not a viable path. Was SDR Stacking as AE back in 2022 and that was about max anyone can handle in my estimation even as a top performing AE hitting at 184% YTD and President’s Club in 30hrs a week. Actively turn down AEs and even some Enterprise SDRs that ask to pay for SDR Stacking Coaching - because it will not work for most others without sacrificing their 9-5 role Plus it significantly limited my SDR Stacking earning potential to $128k in that year when top performing SDR Stackers today are now making $2-300k

@FidelCacheFlow Have any favorite public companies to target?

The only reason to get into tech sales is for upmarket AE role (MM & beyond)..the rest of comp in SMB AE, SDR, SDR manager and even SMB AE manager can be achieved in any other field. You chose one of the higher difficulty sales paths your almost there where the juice is worth the squeeze If u come from small start up land (Çevir

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What is the best next step from SMB AE Should I step down to be enterprise SDR or something like that, or go straight for Mid-Market / Enterprise AE? Anyone been down this path?

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@FidelCacheFlow Now do Boston

Never been fan of SF specifically Bay Area is elite. Not ideal for guy getting started with no family money looking to acquire assets Better for ‘made it’ $500k+ per year Same goes for NYC

@BenyaminHolley Curious why civil engineering?

Inevitable path: I will build Cyft 0 to X0m ARR I will pass on what I know to a protegee who will continue my work after I exit I will raise money and start my own company that solves real problems for real people possibly in healthcare, robotics or civil engineering

@JesseTinsley Dm sent

I know of a few small SaaS businesses doing $4-5k/week in revenue. That will sell for FREE. Real revenue. Real customers. No upfront cash just rolled equity and an earnout. Some of these founders are tired. Burned out. Life moved on. But the products are sticky. Clean. Underrated. If you want to operate one... Not theory. Not hype. I literally have a few on deck that would otherwise get shut down. Don’t sleep on the weird deals. That’s where the money hides. DM me or comment below why you're qualified and I'll introduce you if you're a fit.