A 12-week live cohort for full-time professionals who want to validate, build, and launch their first revenue-ready micro-SaaS without quitting their job.
Led by Travis Street: 5 micro-SaaS exits, former startup CMO, university entrepreneurship lecturer, 1,000+ students taught.
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Launch MBA gives you a clear build sequence, practical AI workflows, direct founder feedback, and a small cohort working through the same process. You leave with a validated problem, a scoped MVP, a live product, and a plan to reach your first paying users.
Most first-time founders start with the product. Then they look for demand. Launch MBA reverses that. You start with the audience, validate the problem, collect demand signals, and only then build the smallest version worth shipping.
View full curriculum →Most SaaS is overfeatured. Find the one thing people actually need and strip everything else away.
Proven demand, fresh market. Don't invent the category — just serve a slice of it nobody has bothered with.
Build the audience before the product. The directory attracts the exact people who'll pay for what comes next.
Find something people do manually on a computer. Automate exactly that one thing. Charge for the time it saves.
Start from real pain you already understand. Pick the pattern that fits your skills. Validate before you build.
You can build things — or direct AI to build them. You want to own a product, not just work on someone else's.
You're not looking to quit. You want a product that earns on the side with minimal ongoing maintenance.
You want to build something small, get it earning, and sell it — not grow a team or raise money.
You've shipped things before but never got to a clean exit. You want a repeatable process, not a one-off.
Post-PMF founders or those already running a structured growth team. This cohort works at the zero-to-sellable layer, not the scaling layer.
THE OUTCOME
Social listening, spotting real complaints, sizing the audience without market research, choosing a domain that signals the solution.
Foundation
Pre-launch landing page, collecting payment before the product exists, understanding the difference between signups and real demand.
Validation
AI-assisted build, scope discipline, logo and visual identity in a session, shipping the MVP before you over-engineer it.
Product
Pricing principles, tiers, lifetime deals, and the PMF signals that tell you when something starts pulling on its own.
Commercial
Community distribution, cold outreach that doesn't feel cold, Product Hunt, lifetime deal as a demand spike mechanism.
Traction
By the final session, you have something live. Now the job is to improve it, grow it, or eventually sell it.
Next Steps
Built and exited five micro-SaaS businesses. Co-founder of Silicon Mingle, a UK community for tech founders and startup operators. Entrepreneurial lecturer at Surrey Business School and the University of Exeter. For more than a decade, I’ve helped founders validate ideas, find customers, launch products, and build sustainable businesses. Over 1,000 students taught, hundreds of founders advised, and countless mistakes made so you don't have to repeat them.
| 2016 | Link retargeting SaaS $10k MRR |
Time to profit: 8 months | Exited |
| 2018 | Link-in-bio SaaS $2k MRR |
Time to profit:3 months | Exited |
| 2021 | Software deals marketplace $3k MRR |
Time to profit: 4 months | Exited |
| 2022 | Analytics SaaS $2.5k MRR |
Time to profit: 2 months | Exited |
| 2024 | AI copywriting tool $1k MRR |
Time to profit: 1 month | Exited |
| 2026 | $1k MRR (and growing) |
Time to profit: 1 month | Running |
Applications are reviewed manually within 48 hours. No payment required to apply. If there's a fit, you'll be invited to a short call with Travis before anything is confirmed.
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