This week’s Founder Finds includes:
- The 6 types of wealth
- 20 AI verticals for investors
- A programmatic SEO guide
- SaaS landing page examples
- How to build a course in public
- A visa database for digital nomads
- How to get 1,000,000 users in 6 months
- And more…
🪶 Remember This
The harder you work for something, the greater you’ll feel when you achieve it.
🤓 Fav Finds
Tools, tweets and more from Trends Pro Members
🗺️ Digital Nomad Visa Database shared by Dru Riley
A directory of visa and residency programs for digital nomads
🤖 20 AI Verticals for Investors shared by Breno Ferreira
An article highlighting 20 AI verticals that investors should consider
🕸️ Programmatic SEO Guide shared by Maciej Cupial
An article by Nico Cerdeira about getting 97,450 visitors per month from programmatic SEO
📘 Read This
There are 6 types of wealth: money, knowledge, time, health, relationships and experiences.
The key is to optimize for the one that you find the most valuable.
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Brianna is building CultureLancer. A strategic partner for businesses, helping them tap into the next generation of talent to achieve their growth goals. She is also a member of Trends Mastermind #0005.
What’s your most important habit?
Going outside everyday. After largely being remote for the past 3 years it has been extremely helpful to be intentional about getting fresh air and sun everyday.
What are you reading right now?
DotCom Secrets: The Underground Playbook for Growing Your Company Online by Russell Brunson
Recommended by my Trends Mastermind group.
What product or service do you wish existed?
Zoom link grabber – When I attend Zoom or any virtual meeting people share their contact in the chat but I often miss it and it’s lost once the meeting is over.
What product are you obsessively using right now?
- ChatGPT has become a low key thought partner for me.
- Notion has been a great tool to organize the backend of my company.
- Hubspot Sales for tracking fundraising flow and communications.
- Super to create websites with Notion.
What are you bullish on?
I’m optimistic about creating opportunities for college students to learn new skills. Why? Well, it helps graduates shine when they’re job hunting. It also builds a bridge between the theoretical stuff they learn in school and the hands-on experience they need in the working world. This ends up making a workforce that’s flexible and well-rounded. It doesn’t just help individuals – it also boosts the economy and community by leading to better pay, more stable jobs and increased economic chances.
And corn cause how could you not be?!?
What’s your favorite Trends Report?
🧱 No-Code, 🌱 B Corps, 🔬 Micro-SaaS, 🎪 Build in Public and 🎓 Education Platforms
Each of these spoke to my current areas of focus and development as well as encouraged additional food for thought.
Exclusive Deal: Brianna is offering Trends.vc readers a 90-day trial of CultureLancer for $99 with the code “Betalaunch1”.
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🔧 Try This
8-Step Formula for Building a Course in Public
Kevon Cheung says you should answer 3 questions to build a successful online course:
- Do people need your course?
- What should go into your course?
- How will you reach the right students?
He shares his 8-step formula that will help you validate, presell and perfect your course.
👀 Watch This
From 0 to 1,000,000 Users in 6 Months
Noah Kagan shares the exact marketing plan that he used to build and grow Mint with no product and zero customers.
His goal was to get 100,000 users in 6 months. He got 1,000,000 users and sold Mint to Intuit for $170,000,000 in 2009.
🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins
👥 Jero Esguerra unlocked 1:1 Founder Intros by joining daily standups
🎨 Mark Shcherbakov made a comparison table of SaaS landing pages
🤖 Dale Williams created a scenario planning AI for ChatGPT
🦄 Bernardt J. Vogel wrote about startups and generative AI
💹 Radhakrishnan KG held a startup investability workshop
💌 Milly Tamati launched a commission sharing experiment
🧠 Jesper Delporte and Eddie Forson unlocked Trends.vc Masterminds by reaching 10 and 30-day standup streaks
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