8 proven strategies to pre-sell your SaaS idea
🎉 Hey Failories! It's Nico here.
This week I bring you an article about pre-selling SaaS ideas (applies to other business models as well, anyway) and an interview with the founder of SnapShooter.
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💰 8 proven strategies to pre-sell your SaaS idea. 34% of the startups fail due to a lack of PMF. This applies to all kinds of innovative projects, including SaaS. Therefore, the first step towards a successful SaaS is validating your idea.
Pre-sales are, in my opinion, the best approach to validate an idea, as they leave no space for what I call the "niceness gap". Here are 8 proven strategies to get pre-sales for your SaaS.
⚙️ Bootstrapping a server backup company to 5 figures/mo. Simon is the founder of this startup called SnapShooter, which he founded in 2017.
Fully bootstrapped and built in public, SnapShooter reached $10k in MRR in January 2021. Since then, it's been growing every month while adding new services. Learn how to bootstrap a SaaS.
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The Story of Jotform. This form creator SaaS has recently hit 10M users, and to celebrate it, they have written several articles (over 60k words) about their bootstrapping and growth story.
First 1,000 customers for dating apps. The dating market is one of the most competitive ones. Acquiring users is hard and expensive. This article shares how dating startups like Tinder, Bumble, and Match.com found their first users.
$100k/year in 9 months. AMA. Damon, founder of testimonial, has just hit the $100k in ARR milestone and has been answering dozens of questions about his acquisition channels, fundraising, pricing, and more.
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That's all for this week. Let me know if you have any questions!
Cheers,
Nico
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