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- Building or scaling a startup? Here are 16 lessons I learned building a million dollar software business. Growing a startup over $1M in revenue isn’t an easy feat, but by learning these lessons faster and avoiding these costly beginner mistakes, growing your SaaS or software business wont be as hard!
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We provide SaaS training, education and networking opportunities for other founders who are pre-product, focused on scaling their business, and looking for an exit strategy.
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Top 10 Avoidable Mistakes SaaS Startups Make: th-cam.com/video/8Jjb7fPV6PQ/w-d-xo.html
00:20 Start with a problem
01:40 Validate before building
02:50 Market as you code
03:44 Consider a slow launch
04:58 Be willing to pivot
06:09 Stair Step
07:02 Look for despised competitors
07:47 Audience is good but network is better
08:32 Growth is expensive
09:41 Success is a combination of hard work, luck and skill
10:57 A great team is a superpower
11:47 Fire yourself
12:22 Don’t be scared of funded competitors
13:15 Raise funding for lightning in the bottle ideas
13:51 Be wary of your startup competitors
14:24 Recurring revenue is very valuable
15:56 The hardest part of being a founder is managing your own psychology
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You make GREAT videos, but this one is one of my FAVORITES ever. One day I’ll make it to Micro Conf and talk about how my little micro-SaaS I’m building now ends up working out, and I’ll mention this video.
Thanks so much, Danny.
These videos are getting better and better. Thanks for continually pushing forwards on the podcast and the TH-cam channel. I hope to attend an in-person MicroConf someday. Cheers from SLC, Utah.
Glad you like them! Thank you for watching, Steve.
Been watching all your videos and others on microconf, love the content, thank you for sharing
Thank you for watching!
Just started re-listening to your podcast. Couldn’t put a face to the voice . 😊
Nice. Thanks
Love this content so helpful for my startup
Great to hear!
The information on this video, outstanding...I have to save it and come back to it again,great work Rob🙌
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching, Patrick.
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Awesome, thank you!
Brilliant
Thank you, Michael
Nice
Very useful advice.
How many people do I need to approach about an idea before I should abandon. I'm getting luke warm reception and generally just ignored. My product idea saves time, improves engagement, feedback and makes the customer money. That's the pitch. I haven't written any code this time, trying to get prior market approval before building the MVP.
Hey Returns Tracker, there isn’t a specific number, but I would aim at getting in touch with maybe 30-40 people who you think would be a great fit for your product. Also, during this early stage of validation it’s important to be asking the right questions. If you haven’t already, I’d suggest checking out the my book Start Small, Stay Small and The Mom Test by Rob Fitzpatrick.
In regards to validation; what if it’s a tool for your own business and employees?
Validation is proving that a % of interested others will stay and continue your product. Not just yourself. It’s good initial validation, but are there enough like you out there to also agree with you?
@@Saleh.T been building my app and doing interviews with people to keep going. it looks like there a year's worth of work to be done right now, I'm only able to afford 30-1hr everyday and some more time on the weekend to build. IF I take a month or two out it would surely be done, but for now I'm working on interviewing other people to see if they are interested while spending my evenings working on the tasks for the internal of the company.
Scratching your own itch is one way to get some validation, however, as S T points out, it’s only a starting point. I’ll be touching on this in my next episode of Startups For the Rest of Us. Make sure you are subscribed in your favorite podcast app- www.startupsfortherestofus.com/
@@MicroConf thanks mate, I am already. I have devoured a lot of your content and some of your interviewees other videos as they have golden nuggets of information on where I was stuck.
How did you create all these animated texts?
Hi Peter, our team is using Adobe Premiere and After Effects to create these videos.
@@MicroConf thank you
Hi, sir I'm from India 🇮🇳 an I'm a Bsc (Hon's) Agriculture graduate.
but I want to switch my career into SDR b2b Saas .,...... so it's a good option to choose ? plz tell me sir
It's all depends on your risk taking capability. There's 95% chance it's not going to be your final job option, rest depends on execution.
@@_DheerajYadav_ sir kya aap Totally explain kar sakte ho
Hi Aria, without knowing more about you, your skillset, and your situation, I can’t really give you specific advice here. That said, learning sales is a great skill that you carry with you throughout your career.
@@MicroConf Tq for the Advice sir 🙏
i had to slow down this video
Great video! I wrote to contact Tinyseed but I didn't got any reply just yet ...