Strategy: Niche selection
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Why now is the best time to build crypto products
Y Combinator
September 23, 2025
Business models
9
Niche selection
7
AI strategy & adoption
5
- Chain costs fell 1000x — the broadband moment for crypto has arrived.
- Regulatory clarity lets builders spend money on engineers, not lawyers.
- Every legacy financial system can now be rewritten in hundreds of lines of code.
Why the AI economy forces everyone to become an entrepreneur
Daniel Priestley
September 19, 2025
Niche selection
9
Identity & self-belief
7
Bootstrapping
6
- AI eliminates average work — being Homer Simpson no longer pays
- Digital age runs on power laws: top 10% take 90% of rewards
- Build IP, media, data, and code — the assets governments can't seize
How to expand beyond your local market using niche dominance
Scaling Up with Verne Harnish
September 12, 2025
Niche selection
10
Long-term planning
8
- The US is only 23% of the global economy — most founders ignore the rest
- Hidden Champions dominate narrow global niches with margins up to 50%
- Follow existing customers abroad for instant revenue and a market foothold
Five business red flags that signal a deeper strategy problem
Alex M H Smith
September 11, 2025
Business models
9
Niche selection
7
- Every growth plateau is a structural ceiling, not a hustle deficit.
- Price pressure vanishes when customers can't compare you to competitors.
- Thin margins and weak leads both trace back to positioning, not operations.
Three-step go-to-market plan for SaaS revenue growth
TK Kader
September 3, 2025
Niche selection
9
Copywriting
7
Growth hacking
6
- Skipping ICP and messaging is why cold outreach consistently fails
- A manifesto turns features into a movement competitors can't copy
- Treat your growth engine as a flywheel and fix one choke point at a time
How repositioning to a single feature took Alia from zero to $4M ARR
Starter Story
August 27, 2025
Niche selection
9
Branding
7
Product-market fit
6
- Your best customers define your position — not your vision
- Four low-risk moves to reposition without breaking the business
- Speed is the one advantage early founders hold over incumbents
How to build a $100k/month coaching business with one video a month
Sunny Lenarduzzi
August 26, 2025
Niche selection
9
Content marketing
8
Prospecting & outreach
6
- One video a month drove a cleaning coach from $30k to $100k monthly revenue.
- Owning one keyword phrase beats chasing broad topics for attracting paying clients.
- Precision targeting makes competition irrelevant — you create your own category.
Jamie Siminoff of Ring gives advice to three early-stage founders
How I Built This with Guy Raz
August 21, 2025
Niche selection
8
MVP & prototyping
7
Growth hacking
6
- Why a product that does everything is hard to sell to anyone
- Pricing premium ethical chocolate: start high, earn the brand
- Entrepreneurship is a dark tunnel — you rarely see the full light
A three-part framework for scalable SaaS revenue growth
TK Kader
August 17, 2025
Niche selection
8
Content marketing
7
B2B sales
6
- Scaling SaaS means doing less with leverage, not more.
- One focused ICP beats hedging across multiple segments every time.
- A consistent Broadway show turns strategy into pipeline and revenue.
From $1,000 to a Million by Mobilizing Other People's Resources
KeyPersonOfInfluence
August 10, 2025
Niche selection
8
Prospecting & outreach
7
Bootstrapping
6
- Every resource you need already exists — find who holds it.
- A $700 private dinner unlocks joint ventures worth millions.
- 200% affiliate commissions drive launch volume without ad spend.
Founder advice on pricing, distribution, and brand naming for early-stage businesses
How I Built This with Guy Raz
July 31, 2025
Pricing strategy
8
Niche selection
7
Growth hacking
7
- Grandparents, not moms, are the real buyer for kids' products
- Low prices kill your marketing budget before you start
- Raise money from banks first — investors take your business when it rains
Choosing between AI projects, niche marketing, pricing, and more
Startups For the Rest of Us
July 29, 2025
Niche selection
9
Pricing strategy
8
Pivoting
6
- Regulatory hurdles alone should deprioritise a passion project, not kill it.
- 75–80% of early-stage founders underprice — raising beats lowering almost always.
- Early niche positioning doesn't pigeonhole you; expansion is a marketing execution problem.
A one-page go-to-market strategy template for SaaS founders
TK Kader
July 27, 2025
Niche selection
8
Growth hacking
7
Unit economics
6
- Skipping strategy and executing blind is why most GTM efforts fail
- Work backwards from revenue target to find the leads you actually need
- Stop doing what your ICP ignores — make space before adding more channels
Live social shopping and AI as the next foundational platform
GaryVee
July 10, 2025
Niche selection
9
Growth hacking
8
AI strategy & adoption
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- Live shopping is already 30% of China's e-commerce — US is next
- AI is infrastructure like electricity, not a trend to invest in selectively
- Personal brand built on content is the one asset AI cannot commoditise
From copywriter to offer owner: lessons from a $10M cold-traffic marketer
Matthew Volkwyn
July 8, 2025
Niche selection
8
Resilience & grit
7
Growth hacking
6
- Most copywriters never launch offers because they won't risk their own money.
- Outside the guru bubble, massive operators barely use copywriting at all.
- Top copywriters in the cold-traffic world earn $100K/month in royalties.