Tool

Hunter (Email Finder and Verifier)

Hunter · Hunter.io Freemium Beginner

Before any of your outreach copy matters, you need the right person's actual email, and Hunter is the most widely used, straightforward way to find and verify it. Its Domain Search helps you figure out who to contact at a company, the Email Finder gets you the address, and the verifier keeps you from bouncing and wrecking your sender reputation. The free plan is enough to get a founder started without a card.

  • Use Domain Search to find the best person at a company, then Email Finder to get their verified address.
  • Verify addresses before you send so bounces do not hurt your deliverability.
  • Free plan and a Chrome extension make it usable from day one; paid tiers add volume and sequencing if you scale.
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It answers 4 questions

  1. Is cold outreach even worth it, or is it just spam that hurts my brand?
  2. How do I cold email my first ten customers when I have no logos, no traction, and no case studies?
  3. Should I use my personal email and name or a company address for cold outreach?
  4. How do I cold email people at big enterprises when I'm a small unknown startup from outside the major hubs?

Read with it

  1. The single best thing ever written on customer conversations. It teaches you to ask about the customer's life and past... momtestbook.com Book · ~130 pages The Mom Test Rob Fitzpatrick
  2. The permission slip to recruit users by hand, do things manually, and deliver 'insanely great' experiences to your first few... paulgraham.com Essay · ~15 min read Do Things That Don't Scale Paul Graham
  3. A tactical follow-on covering the channels and motions top B2B startups scale after the first ten. Grounds distribution... Lenny's Newsletter Article · ~15 min read How to win your first 10 B2B customers Lenny Rachitsky
  4. Video · ~20 min How To Talk To Users | Startup School Gustaf Alstromer
  5. Jen Abel has coached over 300 early-stage founders through their first sales, so this is grounded in what actually happens when... Lenny's Podcast Podcast · About 1 hour 16 minutes The ultimate guide to founder-led sales | Jen Abel (JJELLYFISH) Lenny Rachitsky with Jen Abel
  6. An Indian founder story where the early demand test was manual, cold emails and direct outreach to find the first customers... Prime Venture Partners Podcast Podcast · ~50 min How Khadim Batti Built Whatfix Into a Global SaaS Leader Prime Venture Partners
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