This week’s Founder Finds includes:
- An A/B testing guide
- Why is LinkedIn so cringe?
- A habit for continuous improvement
- An AI-powered content creation suite
- Bootstrapping a SaaS to $30,000/month
- How to find and fix bottlenecks in your life
- And more…
🪶 Remember This
Discipline is a prerequisite of greatness. Nobody becomes great by accident.
🤓 Fav Finds
Tools, tweets and more from Trends Pro Members
🧪 Practical Guide to A/B Testing shared by Swapnil Puranik
A book about conducting effective A/B tests. You can read the first chapter here
😬 Why is LinkedIn so Cringe? shared by Kevin Deol
An article on why there is so much bland, buzzword-filled content on LinkedIn
🎥 Runway shared by Dana Ram
A content creation suite with 30+ AI-powered creative tools
🎧 Listen To
From Full-Time Job to $30,000/Month
Damon Chen built 5 apps, 4 of which have failed. He talks about failing, validating, charging more and bootstrapping a SaaS as a solo founder.
🌟 Founder of the Week
“Trends Pro is an interesting place to engage with founders at various points of their journey. I’m looking forward to getting to know more founders.“
Rachel is building Rachel’s English for more than 4,500,000 subscribers, helping people all over the world feel confident speaking English. “It’s the gym for your English: you’ll learn about the sounds and musical characteristics of American English. You’ll have a specific method for training your voice, and you can get personalized feedback from our teachers.”
What’s your most important habit?
Fitness — It keeps me in line with diet, sleep, parenting, and being a kinder person.
What are you reading right now?
The New Yorker
The reporting is top-notch, the writing fantastic, and when I need something different I can flip to the fiction piece.
What product or service do you wish existed?
I get motivated by my fitness tracker, and I wish I could provide similar stats to my students for how much time they spend studying on my website each day, how many days in a row, etc. With charts and graphs. As well as being able to share with other students and compare averages. I use Thinkific and they don’t have this functionality. I haven’t heard of any course platforms that do.
What product are you obsessively using right now?
An under-desk treadmill. It gets me through the afternoon slowdown, stops the back pain from creeping in.
What are you bullish on?
The Creator Economy. I went to YouTube’s Creator Summit this year. The ways that creators are coming up with to grow and engage their community (and sell products to them) is inspiring.
What are you bearish on?
Meat. Have you tried some of the vegan products out there lately? WOW.
What’s your favorite Trends Report?
💼 Fractional Executives
Through that report, I took a couple of meetings and just hired a CMO advisor. I expect great things for the coming year.
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📘 Read This
You have at least one bottleneck that limits your progress in business and life. Theory of Constraints helps you achieve your goals by finding and fixing that bottleneck.
🔧 Try This
Daily Scorecard
I’m always looking for habits that lead to continuous improvement.
One of my best habits is a nightly scorecard for different aspects of life.
Some things that I track:
- Diet
- Sleep
- Growth
- Exercise
- Peace of Mind
I score each aspect based on a scale of 1 to 10.
If anything is less than 10, I add action items that, if done, would improve the score.
🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins
👥 Renae Gregoire, Jarrad Pouncil and Benhur Desta unlocked 1:1 Founder Intros by joining daily standups
🤖 Fausto Sá Teles launched IndieAI Newsletter
🎧 Uwe Dreissigacker was featured in Mehmet Gonullu‘s CTO Show
🔀 Vic Kalchev relaunched Destructured
🧱 Shuyen Phoon sold her first no-code project
🛠️ Martin Slaney launched Product Prompts Newsletter
📈 Mac Martine closed 5 paying customers after relaunching Aware
🧠 Maisha Cannon, Dana Ram, Sandhya Gopalan and Jaskirat Singh unlocked Trends.vc Masterminds by reaching 10-day standup streaks
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