Flex Your Entrepreneurial Muscle: 3 Ways to Come Up With Your Ultimate Startup Idea

Dan Martell
2 min readMay 4, 2020

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It’s a gift… and a curse…

I bet you have it too.

You can’t get your mind off of it, can’t shut it down.

You wouldn’t be an entrepreneur if you didn’t have it…

What is it?

The Entrepreneurial Muscle.

It’s that thing that makes you analyze businesses wherever you see them, that makes you criticize marketing material every day.

You do cost-vs-revenue math in the supermarket aisle… count seats in the airplane and multiply by ticket cost… try to predict the next tech trend around the corner…

It’s impossible to switch it off!

Here’s my tip for you this week: Train that muscle!

I guarantee you’ve seen a business solution before that made you say: “Why didn’t I think of that?!”

Well, the entrepreneur that had that idea… they trained this muscle.

The stronger that muscle, the easier it will be for you to:

So, I’m going to take you to the mental-gym today and we’re going to lift some entrepreneurial weights. Cool?

Play the video and let’s get started:

How to Start a Business: https://youtu.be/wtez3RuBh8E
The 5 Most Profitable Business Ideas That You Can Start in 2020: https://youtu.be/1LLou9c2dgo
How To Find Pains That Lead to Rapid-Growth SaaS Solutions: https://youtu.be/0jjL3ZDpkxc
How To Come Up With Your Winning Business Idea: https://youtu.be/0Ul4aUS1dxQ

Here are the 3 things I’m going to hit you with:

  • Frustration List Start one today
  • Idea MachineCrank up the RPM
  • Gratefully DrivenThe mindset you need

At its heart, entrepreneurship is about creating.

It’s about identifying problems that need solving and being resourceful in assembling solutions to fix that problem.

Every billion-dollar business was once just an idea in someone’s head.

The next one could be yours.

Drop me a comment and let me know how you’re going to keep flexing that muscle.

P.S. Prefer audio? Subscribe to the SaaS Growth Stacking Show directly on Apple Podcasts or Spotify and make sure to leave a rating and review if you find the show helpful.

Dan Martell has advised more startups than his hometown has people and teaches startup founders like you how to scale. (Get access to all my latest business hacks.) He previously created, raised venture funding for and successfully exited three tech companies: Spheric, Flowtown and Clarity.fm. You should follow him on twitter @danmartell for tweets that are actually awesome.

Originally published at https://www.danmartell.com on May 4, 2020.

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Dan Martell
Dan Martell

Written by Dan Martell

I coach ambitious software founders | Award-winning angel investor / 5x founder with 3x exits | Speaker | Proud Father.

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