Luyện nói tiếng Anh bằng Shadowing qua video: If I Started a SaaS in 2026, I’d Do This (0 to 1,000+ Users)

Chọn chế độ luyện tập

Mỗi chế độ mở một phòng luyện tập toàn màn hình.

227 câu

Nếu các câu quá ngắn hoặc quá dài, hãy bấm Edit để chỉnh sửa.

If I had to start a brand new SaaS or AI company from absolute zero today,

knowing everything I know from building three software companies to over 35 million in combined ARR, this is exactly what I would do.

And I'm not talking about the advice that you hear from VCs or the growth hacking gurus.

In this video, I'm breaking down my complete step -by -step system for going

from zero users to over a thousand paying customers by creating a foundation that's built to scale.

Let's dive in.

So if you ask me why most founders fail, I'd say it's because they fall in love with their idea instead of their customers' problems.

They build something for 12 to 18 months before talking to anyone, and they confuse building something with building something that people want.

90 % of startups don't make it to 1 million ARR, and the reason is because of this phenomenon.

They get an idea, they go to a room with their co -founders, they build for a year and a half,

and then they show up waiting for the world to buy their product.

That is not the right way to be successful.

The key to not being one of these 90 % of founders is the discovery process.

Before writing a single line of code, commit to 50 discovery calls minimum.

Your only goal is to find people who will pay you for something that you haven't built yet.

And I'm talking about actual prepayment, not just, yeah, that sounds interesting.

And my favorite story ever about this is the origin story of BarkBox, which is now a publicly traded company.

Matt Meeker owned a Great Dane and he lived in New York City.

All the dog stores in New York City sold tiny toys for tiny dogs.

And this was 2010, so it was pre -Amazon Prime and pre -e -commerce.

Matt took a Photoshop image of a website, not even a website, about a monthly delivery of five large toys for $29 to Washington Square Park.

He showed it to every large dog owner.

And when they said they were interested, he literally swiped their card for $29 with a square card reader hooked to the bottom of his phone.

He got 50 purchases the first day before he even had a website and the rest is history.

So you're probably wondering how you get those first discovery calls.

You start with your personal network on LinkedIn and other social media platforms of people who match your ideal customer profile.

This is a message

that Andy move on uses to get discovery calls for his company distribute he says hi

and then the first name i was at outreach .io

and now i'm building a high spot and seismic competitor three times cheaper

and 10 times more user friendly and we currently have around 4 000 active users

that love us would you be open to giving honest feedback about the product i'm building signed andy

and here's the key he compensates them with a hundred dollar gift card for their time and you're probably asking yourself, does this still work?

The answer is yes, it still works.

People will still do discovery calls for a gift card.

Another strategy that I've used before is to offer paid advisory roles to people who don't make tons of money,

like director level and below of people who are still in your ICP.

You can also go to industry events and pitch your idea with a notepad, which I call the Alina Vandenberg approach.

Alina is the founder and CEO of Chili Piper, and they're now around 40 million ARR, but they started like this.

Alina would go to a sales meetup and she'd find the most influential people in the room.

She'd approach them with a notepad that was a drawing of her product vision.

And then she would ask, would you buy something like this?

And if not, what would we have to change for you to buy it?

And this face -to -face validation is incredibly valuable for early stage ideas.

And you might be asking yourself, how do you find the most influential people in the room?

What Alina does is she sits there and looks around the room

and the people that are walking towards other people and giving them hugs, the recipient of the hug is the person Alina wants to talk to.

Now, you're probably asking yourself, what do you actually say on these calls?

I think you lead with your sizzling one -liner.

It's the one sentence or elevator pitch that will make people's eyes light up.

For example, for RB2B, it was person -level website visitor identification.

Before us, there was only company -level website visitor identification.

So when people heard person level, they got very excited.

And then you should ask these specific questions.

Number one, do you understand the problem that I'm trying to solve?

Number two, do you have the problem that I'm trying to solve?

Number three, how are you solving this problem today?

Number four, would you pay for the solution I'm describing if I could get it to you tomorrow?

And then number five, what else would the solution have to have in order for you to pay for it?

And number six, I'm thinking of charging X dollars per month.

Would you pay that price?

And the goal is to understand their pain so deeply that you can solve it better than anyone.

Then build the absolute minimum viable product.

Only build what's needed to deliver the core value proposition.

If it takes more than four to six weeks, you're probably building too much.

And here's the secret.

Everything you want to build but could do manually, you should do manually at first.

With RB2B, we manually sent spreadsheets over email for five full months before we even put up a website.

We could have built automation tools, but we didn't.

Staying manual kept us close to customers.

Manual processes are your unfair advantage.

You stay incredibly close to your customers.

You'll learn things you'd never discover with automation

and you can iterate 10 times faster than your competitors that are trying to automate everything.

You get to market months earlier and get that real customer feedback.

These are three signals that prove that you've got product market fit.

Number one, you're getting at least one referral per week from your paying customers.

Number two, customers would be genuinely upset if you took the product away.

And signal number three is you're seeing organic growth without doing any marketing.

If you don't have all three of these, you do not have product market fit yet.

And until you have these signals, do not move to phase two.

Don't do anything else besides try to get product market fit because nothing you do will work.

Product market fit generally equals strong word of mouth.

And here's what strong word of mouth actually looks like.

People are sharing your product on social without you asking them to.

They're bragging about using your product.

Prospects are coming to you and saying, I heard about you from blank.

Customers are creating content about your product organically and it's driving signups.

And if you did nothing, you would see exponential organic growth on its own.

Let's talk about building good inbound velocity.

Inbound velocity means you're getting a steady flow of prospects coming to you every day.

This isn't required to move forward, but it makes everything easier that comes next.

I think the best way to start building this is to post on LinkedIn from day one, share your building journey in real time,

the wins, the failures, and the pivots.

This creates awareness so that when you start outreach, people already know who you are,

you'll know you have good inbound velocity when people are visiting your website without you reaching out to them.

When you're getting inbound connection requests from your ICP, when prospects are DMing you asking about your product.

With RB2B, I spent months building in public on LinkedIn before we even launched our product.

And by the time we launched RB2B, we had a 1600 person waitlist and 300 meetings booked with high value customers to do discovery.

100

The early content created the foundation that let us hit 1 million ARR in just six weeks post launch.

101

Phase two is creating the magic triangle.

102

Now, what is the magic triangle?

103

It's three channels working together, content, outreach, and retargeting.

104

Each channel feeds the other two and creates a compounding effect.

105

The content drives awareness and generates web traffic.

106

Outreach converts those warm website visitors into customers and retargeting brings back the people who weren't ready to buy yet.

107

Now, this is not something you do from day one.

108

You should only activate this magic triangle after you have product market fit.

109

You need at least one referral per week from paying customers first.

110

And if you do any of this too early, you'll waste money scaling something that doesn't work.

111

Here's why you need all three channels working together.

112

Content alone is too slow for early stage growth.

113

You can't wait two years to build an audience, but you should start building that audience today.

114

Outreach alone has terrible conversion rates.

115

Just cold email alone is essentially dead.

116

And retargeting alone doesn't generate new pipeline.

117

It only works on people who already know you and visited your website.

118

But together, they create a compounding growth engine.

119

Each channel makes the other two more effective.

120

LinkedIn content is the foundation to the magic triangle.

121

Building a personal brand on LinkedIn is the fastest way to grow a startup today.

122

Personal profiles grow 10 times faster than company pages and get exponentially more engagement.

123

Your content creates a human to human connection at scale, and those are free ads.

124

Over time, prospects feel like they know you and will do anything you ask them to as it relates to your products.

125

The founder -led content strategy is the following.

126

Post at least three times a week on LinkedIn.

127

This isn't optional if you want the magic triangle to work.

128

I like to focus on three content pillars.

129

Mine are building in public, which is sharing my journey with real numbers and transparency.

130

Number two is the future of my industry, which I have a fairly polarizing stance on where things can go to market are headed.

131

Number three are contrarian takes.

132

And for me, that's bootstrapping versus VC.

133

I, of course, am the bootstrapper who always advocates to take as little money as possible along your journey.

134

You need to find yours.

135

Why this works for me is because I'm brutally honest about my journey.

136

Not only do I share my wins, I share my failures and always remember the three C's be incredibly clear about who you are,

137

be consistent about that identity and constantly reinforce that story.

138

It's more authentic.

139

It's more vulnerable and the more relatable your message is, the more it's going to cut through.

140

Why is this so effective?

141

It's because big companies just can't do this they have to talk like corporate brands.

142

This authenticity is your unfair advantage.

143

And I recently made an in -depth course on my entire LinkedIn strategy.

144

So if you want to go deeper on this one topic, I recommend watching that video.

145

Part two is outreach.

146

The first thing you need to do here is identify who to reach out to.

147

Traditional cold outreach to random lists no longer works.

148

You need to do two types of outreach.

149

One is cold outreach only to people in your ICP, which we use

150

Apollo to come up with a list of founders and marketers at SAS companies from five to 200 employees.

151

And importantly, we reach out to three people per company.

152

And the other is we reach out to people who are visiting our website.

153

And that's exactly why I built RB2B.

154

After you install it, it starts identifying your anonymous website visitors at the person level.

155

You'll get their first name, job title, LinkedIn profile, and business email.

156

And now with this channel, instead of cold outreach, you're following up with people who already showed interest,

157

and you can start using RB2B completely free by clicking the first link in the description.

158

Now with email to make this work at scale, you need proper infrastructure setup.

159

We use either instantly or smartly to manage all of our sending.

160

We go back and forth between them, depending on what's working better at the time.

161

And the key is domain rotation.

162

You'll need hundreds of domains to maintain deliverability.

163

And when I say domains, I'm talking about like TryYourProduct .com or TheRealYourProduct .com or GetYourProduct .com.

164

And here's how the math works.

165

You create two inboxes per domain and send two to 10 emails per day from each inbox.

166

This low volume per inbox is what allows these emails to sneak past spam filters at Gmail and Outlook.

167

And also we use tools like NeverBounce and LeanMagic to validate every email before adding them to our sequences.

168

This keeps our sender reputation clean and emails landing in primary inboxes.

169

And as far as copy goes, I recommend clear and concise copy that describes the problem you solve and has a clear call to action.

170

Here's what we send at RB2B.

171

Channel 2 is LinkedIn Connect and DM campaigns.

172

Use the same ICP list and list of website visitors from RB2B for LinkedIn outreach.

173

Connect with 10 to 20 of these prospects daily to start and you can work up to 50 per day, but be careful with automation.

174

I've seen a lot of people on LinkedIn recently posting about how they've had warnings about automation.

175

And I don't know what happens after that.

176

Maybe their account gets shadow banned. Who knows?

177

But it's not good.

178

Send connection requests with no messages attached.

179

Acceptance rates are really high on requests without messages.

180

And for your website visitor in particular, it's near 100%.

181

Your connect rate goes up even more as your audience grows and people recognize you from your content.

182

The follow -up sequence after they accept is step one, you wait for them to engage with your content.

183

Once they like or comment on something you posted, that's your signal.

184

Send this DM.

185

Hey, first name.

186

Thanks for the like or comment.

187

How are things going at whatever company they're at?

188

The response rate is usually north of 60 % because they just engage with you.

189

This is the most effective way to open conversations at scale.

190

Step two, if no engagement happens after 60 days, send a soft touch.

191

Say something like, hey, first name, what caught your attention?

192

And follow up with, how are things going at company X?

193

Keep it conversational and not salesy.

194

Do not pitch in the first message.

195

Build the relationship first.

196

The secret about LinkedIn is that you're not actually selling.

197

You're building rapport so that you can get someone on a call to sell.

198

Remember, never sell on LinkedIn.

199

How to automate LinkedIn outreach at scale?

200

Well, use HeyReach or Log Growth Machine for automation.

201

These tools automate connection requests and follow up sequences, but be careful not to exceed LinkedIn's limits.

202

You can get permanently banned.

203

Now, why combining email and LinkedIn is so powerful is because you're hitting the same prospects across two different channels.

204

They get your email, they see your connection requests, and they see your LinkedIn content.

205

This creates multiple touch points to build familiarity and trust.

206

Some people are more responsive on email and others are more responsive on LinkedIn.

207

So by using both, you maximize your chances of starting a conversation.

208

Retargeting is the multiplier for everything else.

209

It keeps you in front of all the leads you're reaching out to.

210

Setting up your retargeting infrastructure is fairly easy.

211

You install pixels from LinkedIn, meta, Google, and Twitter on your website.

212

Then you create custom audiences from website visitors to expand even more.

213

You can build lookalike audiences from your paying customers and even your prospect lists.

214

You can set up matched audience ads and go directly to your prospect lists.

215

So for the ad creative, I always use the who, what, why, how framework from Russell Brunson.

216

Who are you?

217

What do you have?

218

Why do they need it?

219

And how can they get it?

220

I just address each of these questions and I try to keep these as authentic as possible.

221

Most of the time, it's me a selfie video and the stuff that I record on my phone actually performs the best.

222

This retargeting strategy is what makes the magic triangle work, which is what you should be focusing on when you're getting your first thousand customers.

223

Now, if you want to implement this, you can start using RB2B completely free by clicking the first link into the description.

224

We'll identify your anonymous website visitors and send their LinkedIn profiles straight to your Slack

225

so that you can reach out while they're hot.

226

Again, it's the first link below and you can set this up in a couple of minutes.

227

And if you want to see what the best SaaS marketing strategies are right now, then watch this video next.

Tải Ứng Dụng

Mọi thứ bạn cần để nói trôi chảy

Chấm điểm AIChấm từng câu nói

Luyện IPAThành thạo mọi âm

Từ vựngMở rộng vốn từ

Game Từ vựngHọc qua chơi

Quét QR

Download on theApp Store Get it onGoogle Play

FOR YOU

Video gợi ý

190 câu

This 25-Year-Old Built a 2-Year Moat Nobody Can Bet Against | Corgi, Nico Laqua & Emily Yuan

Business EnglishUniversity StudentsWorking Adults

327 câu

Từ vựng và ghi chú luyện nói cho bài học này

Bài luyện nói này dựa trên video “If I Started a SaaS in 2026, I’d Do This”. Những từ được nhắc lại nhiều nhất trong bài: Linkedin, product, website, customer, outreach. Video này có 227 câu và 2888 từ để luyện shadowing. Phần lời nói dài 14:37. Người nói nói nhanh, khoảng 197 từ mỗi phút, nên sẽ có nhiều chỗ nối âm và nuốt âm. 83% số từ nằm trong 3.000 từ tiếng Anh thông dụng nhất; phần còn lại nên xem trước khi luyện.

Từ vựng quan trọng trong video

15 từ đáng học trong video, kèm phiên âm và nghĩa:

Từ	Phiên âm	Nghĩa
visitor danh từ	/ˈvɪzɪtɚ/	khách
founder danh từ	/ˈfaʊ̯n.dəː/	người sáng lập
discovery danh từ	/dɪˈskʌv.ɹi/	khám phá
triangle danh từ	/ˈtɹaɪˌæŋɡəl/	tam giác, hình tam giác
solve động từ	/sɒlv/	giải quyết
automation danh từ	/ˌɔ.təˈmeɪ.ʃən/	sự tự động hóa
domain danh từ	/ˌdəʊˈmeɪ̯n/	đất đai, tài sản
inbox danh từ	/ˈɪnbɑks/	hộp thư đến
connect động từ	/kəˈnɛkt/	nối
incredibly trạng từ	/ɪŋˈkɹɛdɪbli/	khó tin nổi
sequence danh từ	/ˈsiː.kwəns/	dãy
velocity danh từ	/vəˈlɑsəti/	vận tốc
infrastructure danh từ	/ˈɪnfɹəˌstɹʌkt͡ʃə/	cơ sở hạ tầng
awareness danh từ	/əˈwɛɹ.nəs/	nhận thức
organic tính từ	/ɔːˈɡænɪk/	hữu cơ

Cụm động từ bạn sẽ nghe

Từ	Nghĩa
break down động từ	hỏng, hỏng hóc
go back động từ	trở lại
go up động từ	lên

Những câu đáng luyện lại

Các câu ngắn, trọn ý trong video mà bạn có thể dùng lại khi giao tiếp hằng ngày:

Number one, do you understand the problem that I'm trying to solve?
Number two, do you have the problem that I'm trying to solve?
Number three, how are you solving this problem today?
Would you pay that price?
We could have built automation tools, but we didn't.

Ngữ pháp trong video

Những cấu trúc người nói dùng nhiều nhất, kèm đúng cụm từ trong video:

Cấu trúc	Trong video
Câu điều kiện if + mệnh đề, will/would + động từ — điều kiện và kết quả	if not, what would we · if you did nothing, you would see
Mệnh đề quan hệ who / which + mệnh đề — thêm thông tin về người hoặc vật	people who will · BarkBox, which is · people who match
Thì hiện tại hoàn thành have/has + quá khứ phân từ — việc đã xảy ra nhưng còn liên quan đến hiện tại	haven't built · I've used · I've seen
Câu bị động be + quá khứ phân từ — nhấn vào việc xảy ra, không phải người làm	isn't required · are headed

Phát âm cần chú ý

Người nói dùng 57 dạng rút gọn, ví dụ you're, I'm, don't. Hãy nói theo dạng ngắn đúng như bạn nghe.

Âm “th”: authentic /ɔˈθɛn.tɪk/, mathematics /mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/, authenticity /ɑθɛnˈtɪsɪti/
Âm “sh” và “zh”: automation /ˌɔ.təˈmeɪ.ʃən/, identification /aɪˌdɛn(t)ɪfɪˈkeɪʃn̩/, influential /ɪnflʊˈɛnʃəl/, reputation /ˌɹɛpjʊˈteɪʃən/, shadow /ˈʃædəʊ̯/
Từ dài — đặt trọng âm cho đúng: automation /ˌɔ.təˈmeɪ.ʃən/, incredibly /ɪŋˈkɹɛdɪbli/, velocity /vəˈlɑsəti/, manually /ˈmænj(u)əliː/, infrastructure /ˈɪnfɹəˌstɹʌkt͡ʃə/

Những âm người Việt thường gặp khó:

Cụm phụ âm cuối — đọc đủ từng âm, đừng nuốt âm cuối: prospect /ˈpɹɑspɛkt/, solve /sɒlv/, inbox /ˈɪnbɑks/, connect /kəˈnɛkt/, sequence /ˈsiː.kwəns/
Âm /tʃ/, /dʒ/ và /ʒ/ — tiếng Việt không có, đừng đọc thành “ch” hay “gi”: outreach /ˈaʊtɹiːtʃ/, pitch /pɪt͡ʃ/, infrastructure /ˈɪnfɹəˌstɹʌkt͡ʃə/, engage /ɪnˈɡeɪd͡ʒ/, engagement /ɪnˈɡeɪd͡ʒ.mənt/
Âm /æ/ — mở miệng rộng hơn âm “e”: triangle /ˈtɹaɪˌæŋɡəl/, manually /ˈmænj(u)əliː/, organic /ɔːˈɡænɪk/, feedback /ˈfiːdˌbæk/, manual /ˈmæn.j(u)əl/

Cách luyện với video này

Nghe hết video một lần, chưa cần nói, và ghi lại những từ bạn chưa biết.
Bắt đầu ở tốc độ 0,75×, nói đuổi từng câu, rồi quay lại tốc độ bình thường khi đã quen.
Ghi âm giọng mình rồi so với bản gốc, chú ý các từ như visitor, founder, discovery.

Phương Pháp Shadowing Là Gì?

Shadowing là kỹ thuật học ngôn ngữ có cơ sở khoa học, ban đầu được phát triển cho chương trình đào tạo phiên dịch viên chuyên nghiệp và được phổ biến rộng rãi bởi nhà đa ngôn ngữ học Dr. Alexander Arguelles. Nguyên lý cốt lõi đơn giản nhưng cực kỳ hiệu quả: bạn nghe tiếng Anh của người bản xứ và lặp lại to ngay lập tức — như một "cái bóng" (shadow) đuổi theo người nói với độ trễ chỉ 1–2 giây. Khác với luyện ngữ pháp hay học từ vựng bị động, Shadowing buộc não bộ và cơ miệng phải đồng thời xử lý và tái tạo ngôn ngữ thực tế. Các nghiên cứu khoa học xác nhận phương pháp này cải thiện đáng kể phát âm, ngữ điệu, nhịp điệu, nối âm, kỹ năng nghe và độ lưu loát khi nói — đặc biệt hiệu quả cho người luyện IELTS Speaking và muốn giao tiếp tiếng Anh tự nhiên như người bản ngữ.

Phương pháp shadowing: đọc hướng dẫn từng bước đầy đủ →

Luyện nói tiếng Anh bằng Shadowing qua video: If I Started a SaaS in 2026, I’d Do This (0 to 1,000+ Users)

Chọn chế độ luyện tập

Tải Ứng Dụng

This 25-Year-Old Built a 2-Year Moat Nobody Can Bet Against | Corgi, Nico Laqua & Emily Yuan

11 Marketing Strategies that Almost NEVER Fail (in any niche)

How to build a startup in one month | Pieter Levels and Lex Fridman

Directness with Respect: How to Make the Hard Conversations Easy

I Wrapped an API Into a Real SaaS (full build / step-by-step)

Don’t Start with AI, Start with the Problem

케빈 시스트롬: 행동의 열매

How I'd Get Traffic to a New Website if I Had to Start Over (2026)

CEO of Addepar Eric Poirier on Lesson from $6 Trillion in Assets

Steve Jobs on Starting A Business

If I Had to Become a Software Engineer Again in 2026, I’d Do This

The Only SaaS Moats Left in 2026