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Podcast: The SaaS Podcast - AI, Growth & Product-Market Fit for SaaS Founders
Episode: B2B Product-Market Fit: $2K in Prepays Before Code
Description: Mike Taber spent years trying to get AuditShark off the ground. The product worked - but the problem wasn't B2B product-market fit. It was product-founder fit. He was a solo founder avoiding the enterprise sales process his product demanded. With Bluetick.io, he took a completely different approach to SaaS product validation.
Mike built 80 Balsamiq mockups in 20-30 hours, interviewed 40-50 people, and used a name-your-price form to discover that 9 of 12 pre-orders clustered at $47-$50/month. He collected $2,000 in prepayments before writing any code. But half of those prepaying customers never onboarded - proving that B2...