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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

Yeah.

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

Yeah, I mean, I think conferences are a historically fantastic place to launch products. South by Southwest itself is known to... I guess it's not anymore, but it used to be this place where everyone anticipated the next social app to launch.

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

Yeah, I mean, I think conferences are a historically fantastic place to launch products. South by Southwest itself is known to... I guess it's not anymore, but it used to be this place where everyone anticipated the next social app to launch.

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

Yeah, I mean, I think conferences are a historically fantastic place to launch products. South by Southwest itself is known to... I guess it's not anymore, but it used to be this place where everyone anticipated the next social app to launch.

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

And so it's one of these things where it has a strong network effect, especially with these social features, which is like you host an event at a South by Southwest or a Tech Week or something like that. These events, if you're in their distribution system, get tons and tons of RSVPs. We hosted one for Tech Week, 800 RSVPs. 800 people all download your app.

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

And so it's one of these things where it has a strong network effect, especially with these social features, which is like you host an event at a South by Southwest or a Tech Week or something like that. These events, if you're in their distribution system, get tons and tons of RSVPs. We hosted one for Tech Week, 800 RSVPs. 800 people all download your app.

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

And so it's one of these things where it has a strong network effect, especially with these social features, which is like you host an event at a South by Southwest or a Tech Week or something like that. These events, if you're in their distribution system, get tons and tons of RSVPs. We hosted one for Tech Week, 800 RSVPs. 800 people all download your app.

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

Conferences are probably no more than like 20,000 people in the largest sense. So once you have that 800 people, you just do the next conference that these people are going to. That's probably how I do it. Obviously, you're targeting...

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

Conferences are probably no more than like 20,000 people in the largest sense. So once you have that 800 people, you just do the next conference that these people are going to. That's probably how I do it. Obviously, you're targeting...

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

Conferences are probably no more than like 20,000 people in the largest sense. So once you have that 800 people, you just do the next conference that these people are going to. That's probably how I do it. Obviously, you're targeting...

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

particular niches so you may want to start with the crypto community or something because these people tend to like hop from one conference to another pretty consistently um you may want to target like the tech community or another specific group of people that tends to show up consistently at these conferences but um yeah i think that's yeah how it worked cool i like this idea i think it's one you know i love a wedge man i love a wedge salad you know so

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

particular niches so you may want to start with the crypto community or something because these people tend to like hop from one conference to another pretty consistently um you may want to target like the tech community or another specific group of people that tends to show up consistently at these conferences but um yeah i think that's yeah how it worked cool i like this idea i think it's one you know i love a wedge man i love a wedge salad you know so

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

particular niches so you may want to start with the crypto community or something because these people tend to like hop from one conference to another pretty consistently um you may want to target like the tech community or another specific group of people that tends to show up consistently at these conferences but um yeah i think that's yeah how it worked cool i like this idea i think it's one you know i love a wedge man i love a wedge salad you know so

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

One interesting point is that conferences are actually where most people spend their learning and development budget at their companies. They're usually getting like $2,000 to $3,000 a year or something like that. These workers, these tech workers or any sort of worker, most of them spend it at conferences. This is why conference tickets are so expensive.

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

One interesting point is that conferences are actually where most people spend their learning and development budget at their companies. They're usually getting like $2,000 to $3,000 a year or something like that. These workers, these tech workers or any sort of worker, most of them spend it at conferences. This is why conference tickets are so expensive.

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

One interesting point is that conferences are actually where most people spend their learning and development budget at their companies. They're usually getting like $2,000 to $3,000 a year or something like that. These workers, these tech workers or any sort of worker, most of them spend it at conferences. This is why conference tickets are so expensive.

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

Because obviously the conference grounds are expensive, but they're more so expensive because these corporate people have the money to spend on them. And so what's interesting is that means that this app, because it has a business focus, it's conference focused, people get to expense it in their learning and development budget. which means you have potential right out of the gate.

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

Because obviously the conference grounds are expensive, but they're more so expensive because these corporate people have the money to spend on them. And so what's interesting is that means that this app, because it has a business focus, it's conference focused, people get to expense it in their learning and development budget. which means you have potential right out of the gate.

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

Because obviously the conference grounds are expensive, but they're more so expensive because these corporate people have the money to spend on them. And so what's interesting is that means that this app, because it has a business focus, it's conference focused, people get to expense it in their learning and development budget. which means you have potential right out of the gate.

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

You could gate some of these features, the AI chatbot information stuff, maybe some of the social features or something. You gate some features and you could charge $50 a month or something like that. $100, $250 for one conference if you wanted to. And I think you'd see adoption.