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If I was building a SaaS from scratch, I'd do this: 1) Identify a problem business owners genuinely complain about. The only way to do this is to ask them in person. Meaning you have to cold call local business owners relentlessly until you get 2 or 3 business owners to agree to meet you, once you have an idea what you want your SaaS to do and for who. By name and cellphone number. 2) Ask if they'd pay to have the problem solved, how they want it solved, and how much money solving the problem would make them. 3) Build the solution the way the business owner described. 4) Go back to the same business owner and have them use the solution and pay for it. 5) Set up a cold calling army (paid purely with commission per client landed) to set up meetings for other target business owners. Then show up to the meetings in person and close deals. Always know your potential customers by name and cellphone number. Other Thoughts: Building a software company is a sales profession. You have to be incredibly extroverted, charismatic, likeable, with strong social skills. You need to be able to effortlessly talk to strangers. Yappers do well in SaaS sales. 90% of building a SaaS is either doing sales, or recruiting others to do sales, or coaching others to do sales and cold calls. You need to know how to catch the attention of a business owners 5-10 seconds into the call. You would say something like: "Hi this is John from Company XYZ and we can help you do ABC to increase your sales. Can we talk about it?" Boom. Now I've got your attention. That's what building a SaaS is. Sales to the core. Everyone can build. The only differentiator now is who can SELL, and who knows how to find highly specific problems in highly specific industries to solve, and who is good at building a sales machine to do cold calls all day. That's it.   submitted by   /u/Training-Gur-2724 [link]   [comments]

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  • 发布时间：2026/9/24 14:19:38