Unvalidated Ideas #035

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Dumptruck - Data import multi-tool (🗒Raw Notes)

Your quarterly reminder that Excel never dies is here.

Millions of people use Excel. Building for Excel is not sexy (and thus is overlooked by developers and startups). Opportunity is there, it's a matter of finding the right idea, putting in the right effort, and getting lucky.

The idea is to become the easiest tool for importing data in Excel from external sources like Salesforce, Hubspot, Google Analytics, etc.

New startups want people to use their products like Excel -- but in the end people just want to pull data out and put it in Excel, where they're comfortable. Help them do that.

What was in this week's uncut edition?

Like being teased? I hope so, because here's what was in the uncut edition this week:

Ideas:

• Dumptruck - Data import multi-tool
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• ████████████ Shop aaS

Bonus:

• Startups are hard. I'm focusing on making them easier for you.

Don't forget, there's always money in the banana stand 3x more in the uncut edition.

Thanks for reading!

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Victor (victor@unvalidatedideas.com)

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