Starting Up #8 - Your Idea Doesn'...

Starting Up #8 - Your Idea Doesn't Need to Change the World

Starting Up: How I Built & Sold a SaaS Company for Millions ... by Jay Sensi

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Stop trying to build the next Facebook. Stop trying to create a unicorn. Start trying to solve one problem really well, for people willing to pay you money to solve it.

In Episode 8 of Starting Up, Jay Sensi takes on the most destructive myth in entrepreneurship: the belief that your idea needs to be world-changing to be worth pursuing.

The reality nobody talks about? The vast majority of successful exits โ€” the ones where founders actually make life-changing money โ€” are companies you've never heard of. Quiet acquisitions between $5M and $50M that never make headlines. Campus Kaizen matched college roommates. That's it. A niche solution to a specific problem. And it made Jay a millionaire.

Jay breaks down why unicorn thinking creates paralysis, and why "small" ideas are often the biggest opportunities. You'll learn the four coย ...ย 

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