One of the fastest ways seed and Series A founders burn runway is hiring a full-time sales rep ($140k–$180k+ base + commissions) before their outbound motion has even found product-market fit. The typical story goes like this: you hire an SDR, buy a couple of static database licenses, set up burner inboxes, and tell them to start prospecting and then three months in, reply rates are hovering under 1%, domains get under the bus and the rep spends 80% of their day manually copying LinkedIn profiles into spreadsheets instead of having sales conversations. The fix is shifting from manual prospecting to an automated signal pipeline, letting software do the research while the founder steps in only when a buyer is warm and not buying AI SDR bots to spam 10k generic emails a day. Here is the opera

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  • 来源：Reddit · SaaS
  • 原作者：/u/sibraan_ https://www.reddit.com/user/sibraan_
  • 发布时间：2026/9/9 05:23:14