Countdown is on until we launch our data product into beta

I blocked off this entire week to focus on our data product, and develop a plan to get us to a beta launch.

We're targeting a beta launch in late January 2023. That's when we'll invite select users in our community who have expressed interest in getting into the tool to become our first paid users.

The goal is to slowly sell people into the product to 1) prove we can sell it 2) get their feedback as we continue to build and 3) use that revenue to pay for the continued build.

Our database has about 6,000 records. We are slowly cleaning them up and getting them into shape so we can make them available to users.

To make this manageable, we're focusing first on buyers who've bought multiple SaaS companies in the last year years, plus buyers who've bought multiple media and content companies in the last few years.

We're aiming to have around 220+ buyers in the system when we go live, plus about 1,000 deals.

Then we'll continue working our way through agency deals, e-commerce, marketplace deals and more.

While we have a solid plan, this feels like a big, daunting task right now. I'm documenting it here so we can look back later and say, LOOK, we did it! We figured out how to get to beta.

First though, I'm taking a week (more like 9 days) off for Thanksgiving with family while my kids are off school. I just made a list of what I'm working on, so when I come back to my desk in 9 days, I can remember where I left off.