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Books on Starting a Profitable SaaS Business
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#42I've read all but three of these books and I've been building startups for 12 years. Some of them are excellent, some have better alternatives since they were published, and some are outright obsolete/no longer valid.
mr egg dont leave us hanging, which are your recommendationss
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#44Any books on generating ideas? I feel like im stuck on step 1.
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#45SaaS always seemed like a way to scam investors, to me. At least with most products...
So basically every new enterprise software company is a scam now?
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#46Nowadays, you could learn more and faster using Chat GPT-4 rather of reading such books.
Can you explain how you use Chat GPT-4 to do this?
Let's say I want to know better about X. You can submit these prompt to chat GPT.
- Can you explain me X in simple terms? - Explain me different between the items 1 and 2 in your response and provide example? - Could you show this in a tabular form? or tree from using markdown
with chatGPT you have access to elaborate knowledge in the most suibitable way for you. You can learn faster. If you prefer an information in a tabular form, you can do it. You can ask differences between concepts and get examples. In a book you can only learn something written by the author.
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#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah I really like the idea of Blinkist but I never tried it. Have you?
Very ironic response given the tone of this thread. How many opinions (err, books) will you need before you just try it yourself?
Wat?
I am perfectly content with my current learning strategy, it got me this far in life. However I'm open to new things, and I enjoy reading people's open opinions first. Even if I were to try it myself, I may have a different experience depending on my expectations of it.
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#48I used to read these types of books (including the most popular of the bunch listed here) years ago. I had this idea that if I just kept reading this stuff, I would eventually just "get it". (I never did. I "got it" much faster by reading individual comments from select people, and trying things out by myself) The thing is, it seems to me that many of these books are just extremely information-sparse. Very very lengt…
> The thing is, it seems to me that many of these books are just extremely information-sparse
I too have most of these books on a shelf. I’ve found most of them can be skimmed and if they have descriptive chapter naming , just skimming the TOC is enough to get the gist. They rarely go into much detail on execution and generally just talk about a couple business cases as examples of the topic in action. But these usually don’t help on your specific business other than making you aware of the topic. If you’re already interested in business and know some of the lingo these are mostly useless. There’s a lot of blogs and content online I’ve read over the years that is significantly more helpful but I could see how given the state of blogs and content how this could be useful for someone young and/or relatively new to business in general.
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#49What would help me is a guide for all the non-core product considerations - legal compliance (gdpr, insurance, etc), and then non-core stuff like how to best implement costings (maybe $99 price tag sells >1% better than $100, etc). I’m not really sure where to look for this kinda stuff, maybe these books?
Legal compliance is something you want to hire a professional service for. It changes too much. They can educate you on the risks of your specific field.
Pricing is a massive question with infinite possibilities. It usually needs to be tested, continuously. Or just locked in and changed on a regular cadence. A lot of it is going to do with you users and the value your product adds, or how that value is perceived. No book is going to answer this for you, just give you ideas of things to think about. Half of which will likely be N/A to your business.
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
Try to do any task on a computer and you'll find 95% of existing things suck and can be improved. You can sell these improvements. Don't worry about competition, that just means your idea has been validated. Make stuff you want to use yourself, that way even if you fail to sell to others, you're not at a complete loss. Plus you do not need to repeatedly iterate with a customer if you are the customer.
To add to this, the bigger the improvement you offer, the easier it is to sell. Selling a 10% improvement it hard, selling a 10x improvement is much easier...
This is where some acknowledgement of the fact a lot of low hanging fruit has been eaten at this point is in order. I feel like more game changing products of this decade are not going to be Uber for X type apps but more original creations.