AI Startup in 90 Days – From Small Idea to Real Business

by Neal Schaffer

Have an AI idea but no clue where to start, how to raise money, or how to win your first paying customer? AI Startup in 90 Days – From Small Idea to Real Business hands you a proven, step-by-step roadmap for turning inspiration into revenue in just three months.

• Nine action-driven chapters walk you through every spotting market pain, validating customers, building a minimum viable product, setting up a data pipeline, securing funding, scaling operations, and even planning your exit.
• Three real-world case studies—a coffee-bean grader in Vietnam, a contract-analysis tool in London, and a fraction-mastery game in Minneapolis—prove that anyone can launch an AI venture when they solve the right problem.
• Note-Taking and Daily Action boxes at the end of each section push you to translate insight into concrete progress within 24 hours.
• Plain-spoken language—no PhD jargon—makes the book perfect for founders, marketers, freelancers, or small-business owners who want to harness AI without a data-science degree.
• Bonus resources include landing-page templates, a pitch-deck outline, cost-projection worksheets, and a go-live checklist.

If you’re determined to see your AI product live in the hands of real customers—saving them time, earning them profit, and sparking genuine excitement—keep this field manual beside your laptop every day.

92 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 30, 2025

About the author

Neal Schaffer is a leading authority on helping businesses through their digital transformation of sales and marketing through consulting, training, and helping enterprises large and small develop and execute on social media marketing strategy, influencer marketing, and social selling initiatives.

President of the social media agency PDCA Social, Neal also teaches digital media to executives at Rutgers University, the Irish Management Institute (Ireland), and the University of Jyvaskyla (Finland).

Fluent in Japanese and Mandarin Chinese, Neal is a popular keynote speaker and has been invited to speak about digital media on four continents in a dozen countries.

He is also the author of 4 books on social media, including Maximize Your Social (Wiley), and his latest book, The Age of Influence (HarperCollins Leadership), published on March 19, 2020 on educating the market on the why and how every business should leverage the potential of influencer marketing.

Neal resides in Irvine, California but also frequently travels to Japan.

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