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I have no idea what YC's preferred methods are - but as someone thats been in marketing/startups I can give you my two cents.

I’ve come down to are either risking it with a $1500 budget to conduct a/b tests for automated marketing strategies with google ads etc, or the other method would be to just cold mail prospects for the B2B product and affiliates for the B2C product.

So it sounds like both deals you are trying to close are effectively "B2B deals" (even the B2C you are talking about an affiliate deal) - typically the sales cycle for most B2B deals are longer so I would account for that (i.e. the deals we start today we're going to not get revenue/close until 3 to 6 months from now)

The second thing I'd say is that doing outbound, it can work, but inbound is always reliable, repeatable, and most importantly it validates theres a demand. If you are convincing people via outbound, its never as good as someone searching for a solution to a problem. If you can stomach the acquisition costs of someone signing up its a much better strategy, $1500 is probably not going to get you there but it would be a start (the typical CPA might be up to $1500). Knowing this should also help to make sure you are pricing appropriately. You might think your product is $100/mo - but you should shoot for 70% to 80% margins because there are so many costs you dont know of yet. Theres a book called traction its got a really good framework called the bullseye framework to rank order the marketing initiatives you should do.

YC has a startup school that sounds like you'd be a good fit for

I personally get approached by VCs over LinkedIn. Maybe this is just how it's done over in India. Besides, many times, my founder friends make relevant introductions. This has really helped us to leverage multiple offers. You should definitely give this book a read, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09CPBPG3Q/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_XCY1H4JNJ3314KDDKT18

To understand the Silicon Valley VC environment, youwill this book helpful: The Secrets of Sandhill Road

Thanks. But i see lots of people getting high up votes just because of hunter. Recently my friend launched without hunter earlier they got only 5 up votes then with hunter they have got more then 500 up votes within a day and become #1 product of the day.

https://www.producthunt.com/posts/cuely

If anyone is still looking for mock interviews. Let me know or schedule it here: https://calendly.com/praful-mathur/yc-mock-interview?back=1&month=2020-05

Done over 100 interviews over the last few years and it's best to reduce the jitters + get more concise with answers. Definitely don't do too many as you start to sound very robotic.

I can help choose a spot: https://calendly.com/praful-mathur/yc-mock-interview?back=1&month=2020-05. Myself and my friend, Alanna, were both S15 and helping with interview mocks.

Thanks for the feedback, appreciate it!

I'm not a Netflix user so I can't test your extension out. But I think there's a super cool app already tackling what you're trying to do:

https://www.producthunt.com/posts/must-2-0

I'm not sure if it's any different than what you're trying to achieve so, I'm sorry if I got it wrong.

Hope it helps.

Good luck!