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So what if you can launch a scalable startup in just a week's time with no money invested?

That'd be pretty good news for a lot of us who are spending the great majority of our time making a living, right? Maybe we've grown ourselves

a little business or we've got a freelancer consulting gig that pays well but takes a lot of time.

We don't have tons of resources to invest in the next big idea or tons of time

to roll it out the door. Today's guest has not only articulated an approach in his book,

The Seven Day Startup, but has also used it to grow WP Curve to close to $25,000 in monthly recurring

revenue his first year. And I think now the startup sits at over $50,000 monthly recurring. So today's guest, you probably know, it's Dan Norris. I've mentioned Dan Norris a million gazillion times on the show. In fact, I can't believe I've never had him on the show. I thought I did. I could have sworn that Dan's been on the show before, so I'm really excited to have him. Now, one thing I want you to take note of is that I've been following Dan online. I know him personally for years. So the questions that I'm going to be asking him are from that perspective. So if you want to get up to speed on Dan's bio and what he's been up to. There's going to be a lot of helpful links.

They're all going to be at tropical MBA.com slash seven-day startup. Also, it would be great

if you could read the book before you listen to the show, although you don't need to to get

value out of it. And if you're really looking for extra credit, I recommend listening to Dan's

interview on startups for the rest of us.

In fact, I enjoyed that interview so much. I just want to play you a clip of one of my favorite

moments on that show.

You know, what would you say to a founder who might be listening to this or an aspiring

founder for that matter, who it was in your shoes a year ago where you were working on a software product and you had to spend some time building something, you couldn't just launch in seven days, right? Because you were building a SaaS app. A week is hard for a software business. It's probably one of the harder ones to do. But the amount of time it takes to build the product is a consideration. If you're in a situation like you are where you've got a bunch of success and you're kind of free to explore, you don't need your next startup necessarily to be a big success. If it fails, you'll be fine. That's a different situation than I was in and then probably a lot of your audiences are in. In that situation, I think you're better considering an idea that enables you to launch quickly and don't think about a startup that's going to

take you 12 months to build for at least for your first one.

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