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Hey there it’s Pat,

It is the start of a new quarter.

That means it’s time to stop messin’ around and start working toward your business.

All you need to do is FOCUS: figure out the thing that moves the needle, and start building.

Today: 5 incredible case studies of founders who took action.

They saw a problem in the world and went out and solved it.

You are just one step away from changing your entire life.

I’m excited to hear what you learn today.

Welcome to Sunday Breakfast!

1. The Orange Juice 🍊

He got this idea from a tweet and turned it into $360K/year

This guy had over 25 failed side projects.

And he was about to give up before he saw an interesting tweet:

Can someone please build an app to manage my email inbox?

He decided to take one more shot:

Within a few weeks he had an MVP.

And within 3 months he was already making a profit!

Today he does $30K MRR and is still growing.

Great example of finding a real problem and solving it fast.

Full breakdown here

2. The Coffee ☕

This website makes $200K/year with only display ads

This guy was trying to think of what to build for his final school project.

Him and his buddy played a dominoes every night, so he thought:

Can I build a website around this?

He created a dead-simple website with Adobe Flash and published it.

It turned out that literally thousands of people had the same exact interest.

For less than $500, he built a website that now brings in $16K per month!

Get the full story here

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3. The Eggs 🍳

He built an MVP in 4 days that now makes $182K/year

There’s a strategy called: “be the barnacle on the whale”

It means to find a fast-growing thing…and get your little slice of it.

And that’s exactly what this guy did.

He saw that Notion was exploding in popularity, so he decided to get in the game.

He built a simple plugin in literally 4 days and grew it to $10K MRR in ONE year

Insane story.

You’ve gotta read it

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4. The Toast 🥪

He built a $1.2M/year business off one product

This dude just loves his trucks.

So he wanted to customize the look and feel of them.

But… he literally couldn’t find anything for HIS exact car model.

He dug around online and found that hundreds of other people had the same problem.

He knew a guy who built custom car grills and they had a product in 3 weeks.

Within a month he had completely sold out!

Crazy validation.

Read the full case study here

5. The Pancakes 🥞

He makes $500K/year editing PDFs

He was sick of using PDF software that had too many features.

So he decided to build a simplified version:

What if you could easily edit a PDF file without downloading anything?

In less than a year he was making $10K MRR.

Today he does over $500K per year.

He replaced his entire salary by solving ONE problem.

Read about how he did it

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That's it!

I hope you have the best Sunday, and are getting ready for a great week ahead!

Pat

Founder, StarterStory.com

What if you could see exactly how side projects turn into millions in revenue?

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✔ Get the lowdown on what niches actually make money… and get the confidence that you're working on the right thing.

✔ See exactly how $1M businesses grew… never waste months on the wrong marketing channel.

✔ Surround yourself with success... soak up the knowledge and learnings of the most successful founders in the world.

Click HERE to learn more about it.

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