Starter Story - Fire your copywriter

Dear starters,

Pat Walls (PW) here, creator of Starter Story.

As you know, every Thursday we send you an email highlighting the best case studies that we've published on our platform. We also tell how they align with bigger trends - so we can help you be a better founder.

This is a bite-sized summary of the most interesting experiences that starters have shared with us.

I hope you enjoy it!

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- PW, DB & SW

Fire your copywriter

Malcolm is a self-taught developer that heard about the release of the API-based AI engine called GPT-3 and was eager to try it. Soon enough he was able to create a tool that can automatically write blog posts with very little input from a human. The software has been selling like hot cakes on Appsumo.

My takeaway: Stay on top of new trends, tools, etc and jump in early. Experiment. First movers advantage is a real thing.

45 unique and usual business ideas (that will make you money)

Seeking to start a business but not quite sure what to start? Try thinking outside the box!

We've put together a list of business ideas that are super unique (believe me when I say they are) and will help you get some inspiration.

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2,500+ founders of successful businesses share with you their exact timeline of building their business to thousands of customers.

Learn from real people sharing real stories. The struggles, the wins, the good, and the bad. 

How do people get inspired and find great business opportunities? How do they get their 10 first clients? What challenges do they face at every stage and how to overcome them?

One click e-commerce boost

This team developed a great solution to automate a big chunk of the e-commerce operations. But what I love the most about this story and I think you can learn from it it's that this idea was possible because of the experience gained doing consulting jobs.

Having some experience in a sector will give you a better idea of what's broken and will surface business ideas to profit from the inefficiencies.

From side hustle to $1.2M/year business

Timesheets? That doesn't sound sexy at all, who would want to work on that? It turns out that there are startups with $50M in funding working on them.

But you won't read about that in this story. Here you'll know about two friends who hustled for years while having a full-time job. Until they got some traction...

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1. How I surpassed 600 orders on Etsy

2. I bought a dying marketplace and grew it to 1.7M$/year

3. From designing AR experiences as a hobby to building a $360K/year business

4. How we created a $1.8M/year course

5. This couple bought a cleaning equipment business for $535K and grew it to $8.5M/year

6. We built a $720K/year travel activities and tours search engine

7. On starting a successful Shopify agency with my brother

8. Update: How we reached $2.8M in revenue

9. I grew my open-source software side project to $3K/month [$0 on ads]

10. From side hustle to $12M/year business [candle & soap making supplies]

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Thanks for reading.

—Pat Walls (PW), David Bustos (DB), Samantha Walls (SW), & the rest of the Starter Story team :)