This week’s Founder Finds includes:
- How to apply value-based pricing
- An email challenge for learning AI
- Why you only need 1,000 true fans
- How to use mental models effectively
- A framework for product idea validation
- How to gauge the potential of your ideas
- And more…
🪶 Remember This
Who you do business with is just as important as what you choose to do.
🤓 Fav Finds
Tools, tweets and more from Trends Pro Members
🧪 100 Days of AI shared by Jordan Divecha
A free email challenge to get you up to speed with AI
💡 Pretotyping shared by Nicolo’ Borghi
A framework for validating product ideas quickly and objectively
💎 Value-Based Pricing shared by Tem
A talk on how to apply value-based pricing
📘 Read This
There are customers. There are fans. Then there are true fans. Whether you’re an artist, musician, author or entrepreneur. True fans will buy your product, buy its updates and refer it to their friends.
1,000 true fans is the only thing you need to live an independent life.
🌟 Founder of the Week
“I like standups, masterminds and the format of 1:1 Founder Intros.“
Vladyslav is building TheDevBook. A tech blog for programmers on how to build projects using hands-on tutorials.
What’s your most important habit?
Writing consistently. I try to write at least one article per week.
What are you reading right now?
Marketing for Engineers
It’s a great resource to learn more about marketing. I’m also reading Steal Like an Artist by Austin Kleon.
What product are you obsessively using right now?
I like AI-related things, especially ChatGPT and OpenAI Playground.
What are you bullish on?
AI and security. AI is a practical one and has a lot of hype because of ChatGPT’s practical use cases. Security becomes more popular each year.
What are you bearish on?
Crypto. It’s an interesting technology from a programming perspective but too speculative and hyped. I don’t see a lot of good use cases.
❔ Ask Yourself
Garrick van Buren shares 7 questions to ask to see if an idea is worth your time, money and energy. These include:
- What problem are you solving?
- How many people have this problem?
- Are you an expert at solving this problem?
🔧 Try This
Mental models help you assess your work and make better decisions. Julian Shapiro shares how you can improve your business, life and relationships by finding the right answers to the rights questions.
🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins
👥 Benjamin Debonneville and Justin Brooke unlocked 1:1 Founder Intros by joining daily standups
🛍️ Alex Espinoza launched a newsletter for Shopify store owners
🎙️ Martin Slaney was a guest on the Mastermind.fm podcast
👨💻 Matt Spear made an OpenAI API menubar app
💼 Maisha Cannon became an SHRM Approved Recertification Provider
🌐 Simon Daley hit $4,648.76 ARR for Webnoch 3 weeks after launching
🐉 Darren Travel made a fantasy short story using Midjourney and GPT-4
📅 Maciej Cupial reached 200 paying business customers with Calendesk
🧠 Abhishek Kumar and Abeiene Nejar unlocked Trends.vc Masterminds by reaching 10-day standup streaks
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