MBA2619 Top 5 Mistakes SaaS Startups Make & How to Avoid Them

The $100 MBA Show

Omar Zenhom

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers, Marketing

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🗓️ 2 May 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Thinking of launching a SaaS business? While the opportunities are exciting, the challenges can be daunting. Did you know that many promising startups don’t make it past the three-year mark? The culprit often boils down to the same critical missteps. In this episode, Omar unpacks the top 5 mistakes that sabotage SaaS startups and shares […]

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0:00.0	Over 90% of SaaS startups fail in the first three years.
0:04.9	It's not because they didn't build a good enough software or product.
0:09.2	Most of them fail from avoidable business mistakes,
0:12.4	especially the last one I'm going to share with you today.
0:15.4	Number five is the silent killer of most SaaS businesses.
0:18.5	Let me dive in so you don't make the same mistakes.
0:26.9	Welcome back to the $100 MBA show.
0:29.3	I'm your host, Omar Zen Home,
0:30.6	where I deliver practical business lessons three times a week,
0:34.0	Monday, Wednesday, and Friday to help you start, grow, and scale your business.
0:40.3	Mistake number one. Building before validating. Most SaaS founders get excited. They want to dive into
0:47.6	their new project, their new idea, they start coding, but it's expensive. And building the
0:53.3	wrong thing is even more expensive. Instead,
0:56.7	you want to validate. You want to build a landing page first, just a simple one-page website
1:02.1	to talk about the value you want to offer the world. You want to talk to real people,
1:07.1	and you want to try to pre-sell your idea before you start building. That's exactly what I
1:12.5	do with my SaaS company Webinar Ninja. Back in 2014, I validated my software, one, by creating a bad
1:18.9	product. I created a course, a course that shows people how to create webinars that totally flopped.
1:24.9	That taught me that's not what people want. They want a tool to make it easier for them.
1:29.0	And then from there, I validated with a landing page.
1:31.7	That told me that I had demand for the software.
1:35.1	I pre-sold the software to 150 paid users that sold out in 48 hours.
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