I don't think cold emailing should be considered spam. For me spam has to be
a) random: send a commercial email to any address we can find, doesn't matter who's is it.
b) massive: if you just send 10-20 emails I wouldn't qualify that as spam.
For example: If I have a product whose customers are startups (they are likely to improve their lives/business by using my tool), why wouldn't they want me to figure out their email (using a method like this) and email them about it directly? They might not be interested, in which case they can delete it, but it's not like you're sending them generic viagra or enlarge your penis spam.
a) random: send a commercial email to any address we can find, doesn't matter who's is it.
b) massive: if you just send 10-20 emails I wouldn't qualify that as spam.
For example: If I have a product whose customers are startups (they are likely to improve their lives/business by using my tool), why wouldn't they want me to figure out their email (using a method like this) and email them about it directly? They might not be interested, in which case they can delete it, but it's not like you're sending them generic viagra or enlarge your penis spam.