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Mikko Haapanen

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Validating a professional ID photo SaaS

In my first post, I discussed choosing “regional games” over the “Olympics.” Today, I want to pull back the curtain on a specific boring game I’m currently playing: Professional ID Photo Software. It isn’t glamorous, but it fits my criteria for a sustainable B2B SaaS: it solves a recurring problem, has near-zero marginal cost, and […]

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About self-management and productivity

In this post, I’ll summarize some techniques that have worked for me when working on projects where I don’t have immediate outside pressure or given structure. This is a snapshot of some techniques I find helpful at the moment. I don’t expect these techniques to work for everyone. Balanced scorecard I learned about the Balanced […]

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Finding and building a B2B SaaS business: introduction

100M€ at 0.1% probability (Expected Value 100k€) vs. 1M€ at 10% probability (EV 100k€). Which would you choose? While these figures are illustrative, I think they represent the fundamental choice between venture-backed big-league startups and bootstrapped, less ambitious entrepreneurship that doesn’t get as much attention or glory. This blog documents my project of finding an […]

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