Strategy: Niche selection
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How to generate startup ideas: eight ideas you can steal
Startups For the Rest of Us
December 6, 2022
Niche selection
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MVP & prototyping
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Business models
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- Match your idea to your context before evaluating its merit
- Competition signals a validated market — not a reason to quit
- ETL pipelines and AI casting tools rank as the strongest opportunities
How Spotio doubled ARR by narrowing its ICP and fixing its messaging
TK Kader
December 1, 2022
Niche selection
9
Copywriting
7
Bootstrapping
5
- Saying no to bad-fit customers directly caused retention and ARR to double
- Productivity messaging gets cut in downturns — reframe around revenue prevention
- Field sales is 3–5 years behind inside sales; the category is still being created
How to find and evaluate startup ideas: a YC framework
Y Combinator
November 17, 2022
Niche selection
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Customer discovery
6
Business models
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- Boring, hard-to-start ideas with competitors are often the best opportunities.
- Founder-market fit matters more than idea quality in the abstract.
- Organic ideas beat brainstorming — expertise and lived problems are the source.
Six things to know before creating an online course
Sunny Lenarduzzi
November 15, 2022
Business models
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MVP & prototyping
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Niche selection
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- People pay for transformation, not information — build accordingly
- A $2,000 course needs 5 clients/month; a $49 course needs 205
- Validate demand with real interviews before writing a single lesson
Startup naming, plateau diagnosis, and licensing IP as a founder
Startups For the Rest of Us
November 8, 2022
Niche selection
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Intellectual property
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Pricing strategy
6
- Why your product name should reflect the vision, not just the launch niche
- Three checks to know if a platform add-on has genuinely topped out
- License your IP as a fork — don't sell it, and charge more than you think
Five low-cost small business ideas for beginners
Ahrefs
November 2, 2022
Business models
8
Niche selection
7
Bootstrapping
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- Sell services around one SaaS tool you already know well
- Drone videography pays $400–$4,000 per golf course with minimal skill
- Voiceover work earns $100–$499 for just 5–10 minutes of recording
Category creation, rebranding, and opinionated software in B2B SaaS
Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth
October 27, 2022
Niche selection
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Branding
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Iteration & feedback loops
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- Category creation only works when customers lack budget but can be educated to create one.
- Miro rebranded from RealtimeBoard in five months — mobilizing the whole company was essential.
- Opinionated software enforces better practices; flexibility alone perpetuates systemic problems.
Three steps to validate a software idea before building
TK Kader
October 16, 2022
Market research
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MVP & prototyping
7
Niche selection
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- Validate market urgency and budget before writing a single line of code
- Domain knowledge and existing networks are the real unfair advantages
- Your product must be 10x better than alternatives — incremental loses
How to measure market size and digital market share
Semrush
October 4, 2022
Market research
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Competitive analysis
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Niche selection
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- TAM and SAM reveal growth potential; SOM is just your starting point
- A 10% market share can mean leadership or mediocrity — context decides
- Growth quadrant shows whether competitors are rising threats or fading giants
The 5PM framework for evaluating early-stage SaaS ideas
Startups For the Rest of Us
October 4, 2022
Niche selection
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Customer discovery
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MVP & prototyping
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- Pitch the problem first — your idea is just one possible solution.
- Six criteria ranked by importance, from problem urgency to build cost.
- Two live idea walkthroughs reveal what makes one clearly stronger.
Three SaaS startup traps that stall growth before it starts
TK Kader
September 18, 2022
Niche selection
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MVP & prototyping
6
Funnels
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- Targeting too broad a market kills differentiation before you start
- Adding features is a polite no in disguise — build one core loop
- Work backwards from revenue targets to diagnose your real funnel problem
How to start a small business: five steps most founders skip
Semrush
September 8, 2022
Market research
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Niche selection
8
Business structure
6
- Validate demand before spending a dollar on your idea
- Targeting everyone guarantees you'll reach no one
- A business plan drives 30% faster growth than skipping it
How to calculate total addressable market for SaaS founders
TK Kader
August 28, 2022
Market research
9
Niche selection
9
Pitching investors
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- Market beats team and product as the top predictor of SaaS success
- TAM alone is not enough — pair it with ICP to show differentiation
- Your initial customer profile is the wedge that proves you can execute
Selling software to startups: when it works and when it doesn't
Y Combinator
August 26, 2022
Niche selection
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B2B sales
6
Product-market fit
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- Startup customers churn when the buyer persona changes at scale
- Self-serve flows are not a sales strategy — they're avoidance
- Stripe and Gusto show the only two legitimate startup-first strategies
How Veed.io grew from zero to $5M ARR in two years
Rob Walling
August 25, 2022
Niche selection
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SEO
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Case studies
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- Stop building features — obsessive growth beats polished product
- Build for what people already search for: demand and distribution in one
- First dollar took two years; growth then compounded every few months