Join us for an engaging conversation with Dani Grant, Co-Founder and CEO of Jam.Dev, as we explore a wide range of startup ideas and business opportunities1) K-pop style factories for unicorn startup hires• Target: Specialized roles like first growth marketer or dev evangelist• Idea: Train people specifically for these high-demand positions• Monetization: Startups pay premium for ready-to-go talent• Key insight: Flips coding bootcamp model on its head2) Bounty program for dev evangelism• Pre-hire solution for startups• Deliverables: Docs, tutorials, starter repos, videos• Workers: Junior devs worldwide• Edge over Fiverr: Higher quality bar, specialized reviews3) Let millennials invest in VC funds• Create a shadow LP for public access to top VC funds• Target: 25-year-olds wanting to invest $100 in A16Z’s fund• Caveat: Likely won't work due to VC resistance• Food for thought: What else do millennials want to invest in?4) "So Far Sounds" for X• Inspired by SoFar Sounds' successful model• Format: 3 short talks (comedy, science, etc.) in 60 mins• Key: High-quality, curated experiences• Insight: Events industry ripe for innovation5) Dani’s advice for startup founders• Choose an idea you'll love for 10-20 years• Ensure it's fascinating enough to discuss constantly• Have a rough idea of the "idea maze" ahead• Consider how the business type will shape your lifestyle• Bonus insight: "Moats are dead. Brand is the only moat."Want more free ideas? I collect the best ideas from the pod and give them to you for free in a database. Most of them cost $0 to start (my fav)Get access: gregisenberg.com/30startupideas🚀 My FREE 5 day email course to learn how to build a business of the future using the ACP funnel:https://www.communityempire.co/free-course🎯 To build your own portfolio businesses powered by community you might enjoy my membership.You'll get my full course with all my secrets on building businesses, peer-groups to keep you accountable, business ideas every single month and more!Spots are limited.https://www.communityempire.co/📬 Join my free newsletter to get weekly startup insights for free:https://www.gregisenberg.com70,000+ people are already subscribed.FIND ME ON SOCIALX/Twitter: https://twitter.com/gregisenbergInstagram: https://instagram.com/gregisenberg/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gisenberg/FIND DANI ON SOCIALX/Twitter: https://x.com/thedanigrantLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danigrant/Links Mentioned: Dani’s startup ideas: https://www.notion.so/b598df2c46ac4969af1ac28553d82411?pvs=21Jam.Dev's pitch deck: deck.jam.devTo improve your rankings your business on Google and using AI for SEO, sign up toboringmarketing.comEpisode Timestamps: 0:00 Intro03:21 Startup Idea 1: K-pop style factories for unicorn startup hires13:15 Startup Idea 2: Bounty program for dev evangelism16:36 Startup Idea 3: Let millennials invest in VC funds19:49 Startup Idea 4: "So Far Sounds" for X25:11 Dani’s advice for startup founders
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Moats are dead and brand is the only moat. You know, Peter Thiel says like the best way to compete is to not compete. And I think that brand is the best way you can do that. Where if you occupy enough mental space for a category, no one is searching for an alternative. Like basically the strategy for startups right now is to be Coca-Cola. It's like, why do you drink Coca-Cola?
Not because of any like, like lock-in or anything. It's because it's Coca-Cola. I think that brand is the best moat out there this year.
Danny Grant, I am so excited to have you here. I woke up today, I was like, really excited to have you here because I know you're an idea machine. And then you tweet out something that I just, I was so excited. So you tweet out, before Jam, which is your venture-backed startup, I think you've raised $9 or $10 million, there were 141 startup ideas we didn't build.
about to share them for the first time on Greg Eisenberg's podcast. And now I'm just salivating.
So my co-founder and I met when we were product managers at Cloudflare and we loved working together so much so that After I left Cloudflare, we did like a hackathon weekend trip to Colorado. We got like a cabin in the woods and we like hacked on startup ideas. And we just knew we were going to start something together. We just didn't know what.
And so what does any enterprising, you know, mid-20s person do when they know they're going to start something is they create a notion of ideas. And we filled it with all sorts of ideas we had over the course of like a couple weeks. And there are now 141 ideas in this notion. And we got super lucky because here's what happened.
We had like a call scheduled to go through our notion and pick what startup to start. And before we could even open this doc, we just started gossiping about our old team and talking about this crazy like PM engineer process. that was happening right now in the team. It was like, it was early COVID.
No one was set up for remote and engineers were like asked to be like updating like spreadsheets and JIRAs. It was insanity. And we're like, wait, should we just solve a problem that we have faced ourselves instead of any of these ideas?
And I've got to tell you, I am so happy we did because the thing that I did not appreciate on day one of being a founder is that if this goes to plan, this is actually probably the next 10, 15 years of your life.
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