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Brett Goldstein

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The Startup Ideas Podcast
The most profitable SaaS ideas I’ve heard in a long time

Well, I think what's interesting is the data companies are not incentivized to go after a lot of niches. So if you wanted to start a Sri Lankan real estate CRM or market automation platform, and you needed to have a lot of information about the building location and the number of rooms or all that stuff... you would need to build that data set yourself or hope that users input it.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
The most profitable SaaS ideas I’ve heard in a long time

Well, I think what's interesting is the data companies are not incentivized to go after a lot of niches. So if you wanted to start a Sri Lankan real estate CRM or market automation platform, and you needed to have a lot of information about the building location and the number of rooms or all that stuff... you would need to build that data set yourself or hope that users input it.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
The most profitable SaaS ideas I’ve heard in a long time

And the magic of this is that because you're using LLMs, because you're kind of crawling the web a little bit, or you're finding data sets online or in other places that you can point LLMs to, is that you can do, you can target almost any niche much better than these kind of like incumbents can. So yeah, Sri Lankan real estate, like, I don't know.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
The most profitable SaaS ideas I’ve heard in a long time

And the magic of this is that because you're using LLMs, because you're kind of crawling the web a little bit, or you're finding data sets online or in other places that you can point LLMs to, is that you can do, you can target almost any niche much better than these kind of like incumbents can. So yeah, Sri Lankan real estate, like, I don't know.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
The most profitable SaaS ideas I’ve heard in a long time

And the magic of this is that because you're using LLMs, because you're kind of crawling the web a little bit, or you're finding data sets online or in other places that you can point LLMs to, is that you can do, you can target almost any niche much better than these kind of like incumbents can. So yeah, Sri Lankan real estate, like, I don't know.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
The most profitable SaaS ideas I’ve heard in a long time

Not much. So, like, it depends on the approach, like, The Clearbit acquisition, Clearbit was acquired by HubSpot. And the rumor is that it was not the most amazing price because HubSpot didn't value the existing business. HubSpot is not in a data enrichment business.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
The most profitable SaaS ideas I’ve heard in a long time

Not much. So, like, it depends on the approach, like, The Clearbit acquisition, Clearbit was acquired by HubSpot. And the rumor is that it was not the most amazing price because HubSpot didn't value the existing business. HubSpot is not in a data enrichment business.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
The most profitable SaaS ideas I’ve heard in a long time

Not much. So, like, it depends on the approach, like, The Clearbit acquisition, Clearbit was acquired by HubSpot. And the rumor is that it was not the most amazing price because HubSpot didn't value the existing business. HubSpot is not in a data enrichment business.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
The most profitable SaaS ideas I’ve heard in a long time

They bought it so that they can have data enrichment out of the box in their own CRM and have this kind of competitive mode based on that. So they bought it for the capabilities and they bought it for the data, not the business. So When you are selling a company, like you need to know what the acquirer wants in your company.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
The most profitable SaaS ideas I’ve heard in a long time

They bought it so that they can have data enrichment out of the box in their own CRM and have this kind of competitive mode based on that. So they bought it for the capabilities and they bought it for the data, not the business. So When you are selling a company, like you need to know what the acquirer wants in your company.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
The most profitable SaaS ideas I’ve heard in a long time

They bought it so that they can have data enrichment out of the box in their own CRM and have this kind of competitive mode based on that. So they bought it for the capabilities and they bought it for the data, not the business. So When you are selling a company, like you need to know what the acquirer wants in your company.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
The most profitable SaaS ideas I’ve heard in a long time

The best deals are ones where they're buying the whole business because that means you're getting traditional, like whatever the relevant multiple is based on public comps, other acquisitions and other kind of fundraisers. But if they're not buying it based on the business, then it's kind of like, I don't know, It's totally random sometimes.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
The most profitable SaaS ideas I’ve heard in a long time

The best deals are ones where they're buying the whole business because that means you're getting traditional, like whatever the relevant multiple is based on public comps, other acquisitions and other kind of fundraisers. But if they're not buying it based on the business, then it's kind of like, I don't know, It's totally random sometimes.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
The most profitable SaaS ideas I’ve heard in a long time

The best deals are ones where they're buying the whole business because that means you're getting traditional, like whatever the relevant multiple is based on public comps, other acquisitions and other kind of fundraisers. But if they're not buying it based on the business, then it's kind of like, I don't know, It's totally random sometimes.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
The most profitable SaaS ideas I’ve heard in a long time

Yeah, exactly. Exactly.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
The most profitable SaaS ideas I’ve heard in a long time

Yeah, exactly. Exactly.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
The most profitable SaaS ideas I’ve heard in a long time

Yeah, exactly. Exactly.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
The most profitable SaaS ideas I’ve heard in a long time

Wait, you want to do this last? It's not a startup idea. It's just a framework.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
The most profitable SaaS ideas I’ve heard in a long time

Wait, you want to do this last? It's not a startup idea. It's just a framework.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
The most profitable SaaS ideas I’ve heard in a long time

Wait, you want to do this last? It's not a startup idea. It's just a framework.