Michael Lim | Solopreneur Launch
🏆 x 5 Award-Winning Entrepreneur. Sold my first one-person business at 28. Living and working across Southeast Asia. Sign-up below for my daily emails documenting my journey
i wantz to make munniez 🫰
G’day friends, It’s been a massive week. I’m deep into editing my 90,000 word book. I spent 2 hours per day writing. I hosted a 2-hour workshop yesterday. And I’ve got an amazing opportunity that I’m negotiating at the moment. I can’t speak about it publicly yet, but man, it’s awesome. I’ll be able to share it with you all soon. You could say I'm teeny-bit tired. But I got a question the other day: How can I get to 10k per month? So, I recorded a YouTube video about it. Happy watching! Let...
this is your opportunity 🚀
G'day G'day friends, I'm going LIVE in about 3.5 hours. In 60 minutes, I'll show you how to start your one-person business leveraging your existing skills, knowledge, experience, and network. There are still tickets available. Link: How To (Re)Package Your Corporate Experience In 2026 (if you can't make it live, the recording will be available). 3 hours left. Let's Launch Together, Michael 'join me live’ Lim. Your friendly solopreneur!
LAST CALL: 24 hours left 🍈
G’day G’day friends, Somewhere in Southeast Asia, there’s a vendor shouting. An older Asian man stands with top half-way rolled up in his body. A potbelly sticking out, cigarette in his mouth, shouting: “LAST CALL” A small crowd of eager durian lovers swarm: Musang King D24 Black Thorn XO Everyone points. Everyone rushes. Everyone wants one more before the tarp comes down. And yet, There’s always someone who arrives five minutes too late. They hover. They ask nicely. They say things like:...
this workshop could change your life 💅
G'day G'day Friends, Every week, I gather a group of solopreneurs in community. These are all people who are: Highly skilled. Years of corporate experience. Documented results, experiences, and network. Now, they are all building their one-person business. During our calls, we gameplan to solve our business problems. One of the recurring problem is sales, marketing, and offers. That’s the thing with ex-corporate solopreneurs: They don’t struggle with the technical aspect of their job. They’re...
stop trying to be 🆒
G’day Friends, I often get asked: What’s a good business idea? My response: One that’s boring and profitable. People look at me like an alien. They expect me to say: AI Crypto Blockchain Or some other sexy industry. But while sexy sounds cool, it’s unproven. The more cool something sounds, the less there is a viable business model for it. Uber is cool. But it spent 14+ years not making profit. It burned through VC money to make the model viable. Even now, it’s still shaky. Could you go 10...
learn the language of solopreneurship 🗣️
G’day G’day friends, For the last 6 months, I’ve been learning to speak Indonesian. I have weekly lessons with a tutor. Do my daily Duo Lingo. Why? I’m based in Bali, Indonesia. My mum and grandma can speak Malay (which is similar to Indonesian). My first language was actually Indonesian when I was briefly raised in Singapore. Learning Indonesian felt like reconnecting with my roots and culture. It’s been fun seeing my progress and being able to speak to more locals and putting more complex...
lessons from a 10m founder 🎓
G’day G’day friends, Last week, I went to a talk given by the CEO of HeyReach. This is a software that reached $10m annual revenue in 29 months. A packed house to learn from the best I love Bali for this reason. You get to hear from other successful solopreneurs. The island is full of them. Here are the lessons I took: 1/ overnight success took 5 years, They were on the verge of bankruptcy 3 times. Required 2 big company pivots just to survive. They went through countless false starts and...
the big corporate lie 🤥
G’day friends, I spent years trying to become a corporate Director. I worked long days and even weekends. I took on more responsibility. I managed high value projects with difficult clients. I had the highest sales figure of my team. But despite all of this, I was overlooked for the promotion. They hired some externally. The real kicker? I was asked to train the new director. Yes, you heard that right. I had to train the person they had hired for a role I wanted. You could not make this stuff...
the success fast lane 🏎️
G’day G’day friends, On my flight back to Bali from Singapore, I had a realization. Success can be hacked. Now, I’m not talking about cheap self-improvement cliches. We all know that waking up early, reading, and writing are great. But while they are necessary, they aren’t sufficient. I know many self-improvement addicts whose lives are the exact same year after year. I’m talking about real actions that produce real results. There is a slow lane to success.There is a fast lane to success. If...
I got caught cheating, ops 😦
G'day friends, This weekend I attended a wedding in Singapore. This was a close family member that was getting married. The happy newlyweds! It was a beautiful event at one of the nicest Italian restaurants in Singapore. Over a hundred guests attended, and it was a very traditional Chinese wedding. One of the key themes of marriage is commitment. This got me thinking: Why do most people apply this marriage mindset to things that shouldn't be applied to? It's absolutely fine to get married to...
🏆 x 5 Award-Winning Entrepreneur. Sold my first one-person business at 28. Living and working across Southeast Asia. Sign-up below for my daily emails documenting my journey