This week’s Founder Finds includes:
🎥 A 7-figure YouTube business
🔄 A process documentation tool
⭐ A collection of animated SVGs
💯 100 ideas on how the world works
🔋 Why you should track your energy
📩 A directory of newsletter best practices
➡️ And more…
🪶 Remember This
Be kinder than necessary.
🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins
👥 Patrick Reker, Parminder Singh, Rafael Servatti, Areeb Pasha, Jong-Chan Chung, Sebastian, Taras Frank, Julien Collet, Sagar Shah and Jed Crystal unlocked 1:1 Founder Intros by joining daily standups
📩 Katt Risen built Newsletter Giants
🎞️ Errol Tiozon made a TikTok video that went viral
💼 Bernardt J. Vogel built a live job database
🎓 Rupert Wade launched a product demo for Applaud
🧑 Cameron Rambert updated his personal website
🚜 Bernardt J. Vogel wrote about AI in agriculture
🎙️ Stewart Townsend led a workshop on How to Boost Sales as a Podcast Guest
🤓 Fav Finds
Tools, tweets and more from Trends Pro Members
🔄 Tango shared by Daniel Berggren
An automatic process documentation tool
🔋 Energy Audit shared by Eren Suzer
A method to easily track your energy and focus on meaningful tasks
⭐ Loaf shared by Chuck Hardy
A collection of animated SVG icons
📘 Read This
Here’s a list of 100 little but important ideas on how our world works.
- Pareto Principle: 80% of outcomes are driven by 20% of events.
- Fredkin’s Paradox: The more equal the options, the harder the decision.
- Skill Compensation: People who are good at one thing tend to be poor at another.
- Boomerang Effect: Persuading someone to do one thing can make them do the opposite.
- Normalcy Bias: Underestimating the odds of disaster by assuming things will keep functioning the way they’ve always functioned.
🌟 Founder of the Week
“Just joined Trends.vc Masterminds. I teach fundraising and storytelling. Looking forward to progressing together.“
What’s your most important habit?
Waking up early, reading and writing. This helps me stay sharp.
What are you reading right now?
Obviously Awesome by April Dunford. It seems that I found the right tech, messaging and market. Finding the right positioning is our next priority.
What product are you obsessively using right now?
Superhuman for emails. Apple Notes for organizing information. LinkedIn Sales Navigator for building partnerships.
What are you bullish on?
Artificial intelligence. It helps to build products that offer outcomes instead of software.
What are you bearish on?
API wrappers, general-purpose AI tools and third-party AI tools for big platforms.
- API wrappers have a weak moat.
- General AI tools try to be the jack-of-all-trades.
- Big platforms will eat up small apps by adding similar AI features themselves.
What’s your favorite Trends Report?
NFTs and DAOs — they helped me launch DaoLens which evolved into Crunchit.ai.
Niche AI Models — a great piece to learn more about AI.
B2B SaaS — an evergreen report that I often revisit.
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Building a 7-Figure Business on YouTube
Lucy Bella Simkins runs one of the world’s largest language learning YouTube channels.
What started as a passion project, turned into a 7-figure business.
Lucy shares the challenges, strategies and reflections on building her online course business.
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