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Luke Sophinos

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The Startup Ideas Podcast
How to build a $1M+ vertical SaaS business (step-by-step guide)

Let's do, why don't we try the machine shop example? Okay, let's do it. Yeah, why not? So first question I'd ask it is like, tell me about the market size in the United States for machine shops.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
How to build a $1M+ vertical SaaS business (step-by-step guide)

Let's do, why don't we try the machine shop example? Okay, let's do it. Yeah, why not? So first question I'd ask it is like, tell me about the market size in the United States for machine shops.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
How to build a $1M+ vertical SaaS business (step-by-step guide)

And I'll give you like 15 questions to ask it. We'll see how it does. So this is perfect, right? This is what we had, 40 billion annually, 25,000 machine shops, employs 300,000 people, growing one to 3%. Industry is largely fragmented. Actually, this is amazing, I love it. With many small and medium-sized businesses.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
How to build a $1M+ vertical SaaS business (step-by-step guide)

And I'll give you like 15 questions to ask it. We'll see how it does. So this is perfect, right? This is what we had, 40 billion annually, 25,000 machine shops, employs 300,000 people, growing one to 3%. Industry is largely fragmented. Actually, this is amazing, I love it. With many small and medium-sized businesses.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
How to build a $1M+ vertical SaaS business (step-by-step guide)

And I'll give you like 15 questions to ask it. We'll see how it does. So this is perfect, right? This is what we had, 40 billion annually, 25,000 machine shops, employs 300,000 people, growing one to 3%. Industry is largely fragmented. Actually, this is amazing, I love it. With many small and medium-sized businesses.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
How to build a $1M+ vertical SaaS business (step-by-step guide)

However, there are also a few larger players that are with some consolidation trends. No real geographic distribution. Okay, so that's beautiful. So that's a perfect place to start, right? So the next thing I would go into is, let's pull up the scorecard. Walk me through, you know, what a machine shop's operation looks like end to end.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
How to build a $1M+ vertical SaaS business (step-by-step guide)

However, there are also a few larger players that are with some consolidation trends. No real geographic distribution. Okay, so that's beautiful. So that's a perfect place to start, right? So the next thing I would go into is, let's pull up the scorecard. Walk me through, you know, what a machine shop's operation looks like end to end.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
How to build a $1M+ vertical SaaS business (step-by-step guide)

However, there are also a few larger players that are with some consolidation trends. No real geographic distribution. Okay, so that's beautiful. So that's a perfect place to start, right? So the next thing I would go into is, let's pull up the scorecard. Walk me through, you know, what a machine shop's operation looks like end to end.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
How to build a $1M+ vertical SaaS business (step-by-step guide)

I love it. This is so great.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
How to build a $1M+ vertical SaaS business (step-by-step guide)

I love it. This is so great.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
How to build a $1M+ vertical SaaS business (step-by-step guide)

I love it. This is so great.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
How to build a $1M+ vertical SaaS business (step-by-step guide)

It's good. So what we're seeing, if you're listening to, is they have basically steps one through 14, with one being, if you scroll up, what was one again? It was requesting the quote.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
How to build a $1M+ vertical SaaS business (step-by-step guide)

It's good. So what we're seeing, if you're listening to, is they have basically steps one through 14, with one being, if you scroll up, what was one again? It was requesting the quote.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
How to build a $1M+ vertical SaaS business (step-by-step guide)

It's good. So what we're seeing, if you're listening to, is they have basically steps one through 14, with one being, if you scroll up, what was one again? It was requesting the quote.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
How to build a $1M+ vertical SaaS business (step-by-step guide)

Yeah, so customer inquiry and quote, order processing, design and programming, material prep, setup, machining, quality control, inspection, documentation, package and shipping, invoice and follow-up, maintenance and cleanup. So this is beautiful. So the next thing I would ask it is like, tell me what software solutions are prevalent in the machine shop industry

The Startup Ideas Podcast
How to build a $1M+ vertical SaaS business (step-by-step guide)

Yeah, so customer inquiry and quote, order processing, design and programming, material prep, setup, machining, quality control, inspection, documentation, package and shipping, invoice and follow-up, maintenance and cleanup. So this is beautiful. So the next thing I would ask it is like, tell me what software solutions are prevalent in the machine shop industry

The Startup Ideas Podcast
How to build a $1M+ vertical SaaS business (step-by-step guide)

Yeah, so customer inquiry and quote, order processing, design and programming, material prep, setup, machining, quality control, inspection, documentation, package and shipping, invoice and follow-up, maintenance and cleanup. So this is beautiful. So the next thing I would ask it is like, tell me what software solutions are prevalent in the machine shop industry

The Startup Ideas Podcast
How to build a $1M+ vertical SaaS business (step-by-step guide)

And can you tie those back to the end-to-end process?

The Startup Ideas Podcast
How to build a $1M+ vertical SaaS business (step-by-step guide)

And can you tie those back to the end-to-end process?

The Startup Ideas Podcast
How to build a $1M+ vertical SaaS business (step-by-step guide)

And can you tie those back to the end-to-end process?