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Building a portfolio of businesses solo (while drinking too much coffee) 🌱 7-fig SaaS (2x) ☕️ http://sipthatmrr.com

1-person startups are the future:

- no employees
- 100% ownership (bye vc)
- Empty calendar
- Big bank account
- work from anywhere
- work whenever
- automate 99%
- create once, cash forever
- launch ai apps overnight
- low/zero costs with high margins
- ship in days instead of months
- build in public to acquire users

Mike Strives

My little $60k/month startup’s biggest benefit?

Going on a 3-day Lisbon stroll without losing profitability.

My little $60k a/month 1-person business biggest wins:

✅ Sleep 7+ hours
✅ Exercise every day
✅ Helping others by investing in content
✅ Healthy work/life balance
✅ No meetings
✅ Creative work over boring work
✅ Location independent
✅ Make decisions on my own terms

Most solopreneurs stay broke doing custom work.

Here's how to fix that:

The problem?

Most are stuck doing custom work:

- Different clients
- Different scopes
- Different chaos every time

But buyers don’t want chaos.

They want clarity. 

The fix?

Standardize your offer!

Make it repeatable.

Make it buyable.

Here’s how: 

✅ Pick one niche-specific, high-value service

✅ Define the deliverables, timeline, and price

✅ Give it a name

✅ Package it like a product: same input → same output 

Instead of saying:

“I do marketing.”

You say:

“I offer a 90-Day Authority Funnel Sprint. Here’s what’s included. Here’s the price.”

Clear.
Scalable.
Repeatable. 

This one shift:

- Speeds up sales
- Reduces scope creep
- Makes your business easier to sell!

It’s not about working harder.

It’s about building a business that doesn’t need you to do something different every time.

This is just 1 part of what I call the Exit Engine.

I’m a non-tech founder scaling a $1m products portfolio

I think I’ve solved more problems on walks than in front of my computer.

Take a break.

It’s highly underrated.

Automation should eliminate friction.

Not erase the human touch.

31 ideas on how to win:

1. Pricing is product marketing, experiment
2. Ask for payment before you build
3. Useful gets used, beautiful gets shared
4. Design for screenshots
5. Date the product, marry the trend
6. Be 10x better at 1 thing
7. Build audience before product
8. Start with a niche that feels too small
9. Stack & celebrate small wins
10. Launch like you've made it
11. Good ideas always feel crazy, ship them
12. Focus on activation before growth
13. Follow the "weirdos", they are often right
14. Make social features feel like gifts
15. Don't copy but study your competitors
16. Ship ugly, sell pretty outcomes
17. Your first product is just a wedge, don't overthink
18. Great customer support has the highest ROI
19. Treat your 100th user like your first one
20. Solve the problem behind the problem (go deep)
21. Educate and help customers win so they never leave
22. Systems & automation before hires
23. Obsess over your brand
24. Ship small, fast, and very often (daily)
25. Win with faster time-to-value
26. Be transparent when others aren't or can't
27. Make it better by talking to your actual users
28. Turn fans into distributors (affiliate marketing)
29. Validate with content before you validate with code 
30. Your unfair advantage is how fast you learn 
31. Make your funnel feel like a friendship

Build an audience by sharing what you’ve learned.

Not by pretending you know it all.

here's the only thing you need to read to 10x your productivity:

(private chat)

While you're overthinking and being “busy” complicating things, the smart solopreneurs among us have ramped up a:

- A short “good enough” sales page
- A simple but clear offer
- A core CTA

You can test an idea in under 1 hour for under $20 using AI now.

It’s literally just start > learn 

(use this prompt)

Clarity comes from action.

Not from thinking harder.

Most productivity systems break by Wednesday.

I work 4 hours/day and scaled 2 businesses.

Here's the system that made it sustainable.

(without solely relying on caffeine) 

You want to grow your business, stay healthy, and learn new skills, without burning out.

But your plans fall apart by midweek.

The simple reason?

Your system only works when you're motivated, focused, and rested.

But life rarely gives you that trifecta.

Here’s the 4-step system that made that possible:

It’s called the System Sync Loop, and it’s built for real life, not ideal conditions.

Step 1: Clarify the intention

Don’t say “work out more.”

Say “go to the gym Mon/Wed/Fri at 9am.” 

Step 2: Map the barriers

Why does this usually fail?

Is it low energy?
Slack pings?
Kids?
Schedule conflicts?

List every obstacle. 

Step 3: Design for your worst day

If you were tired, behind, and distracted, what version of the task could you still complete?

That’s your default!

Step 4: Peel one Band-Aid

This is where most people go wrong.

They rely on crutches instead of fixing the root problem. 

Examples:

If you rely on coffee at 9PM to push through...
→ Move your deep work to the morning when energy is higher.

If you can only focus with a Pomodoro timer...
→ Start training raw focus: try 30 distraction-free minutes daily.

If you need a complex Notion setup to stay on track...
→ Simplify your inputs and reduce your commitments. 

Your system should carry you on your worst day, not just your best one.

Use the System Sync Loop to fix the system, not the symptoms.

Follow me for more real systems that work in real life.

Protect your peak hours.

Deep work only happens when distractions don’t.

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