This week’s Founder Finds includes:
- Building Trends.vc
- An AI-powered video editor
- A knowledge base app for notes
- A newsletter of advanced growth tactics
- A deep dive into AI opportunities for founders
- And more…
🪶 Remember This
Easy choices, hard life. Hard choices, easy life.
🤓 Fav Finds
Tools, tweets and more from Trends Pro Members
✨ Generative Tech Begins shared by Stewart Townsend
A deep dive into the emerging sector of generative AI with opportunities for founders.
🎞️ Descript Storyboard shared by Elena Vargas
An AI-powered tool that lets you edit video like a text document.
📈 Growth Marketing Newsletter shared by Tem
A high-signal weekly newsletter of advanced growth tactics.
🔧 Try This
This is my go-to editor for notes. It’s an open-source and extensible Roam Research alternative that I use for everything from storing recipes to mastermind updates.
🌟 Founder of the Week
“Trends Pro has become a part of my day, a part of my life. I’ve made friends, created great contacts, and have access to an amazing hive mind of incredible people when I need it. Trends Pro is one subscription that isn’t going anywhere. I’m very grateful for it.”
Michael is building michaelpa.com. MPA Creative houses my art gallery business, a music production house, course creation, and corporate coaching. Also, the book series is leading the way and heading up the course creation.
What’s your most important habit?
My most important habit is the way I make coffee and the time I take to do it every morning.
It’s an event, from the measuring of the beans to the grind to the tamp, and finally to the pulling of those shots of espresso.
This happens every day twice. Once at the very beginning of my day, and once halfway through my day.
These moments are spaces for me to think, assess, plan, breathe, and then spend ten minutes focusing purely on the coffee. This helps me every day, and happens every day without fail.
What are you reading right now?
You Can’t Always Get What You Want: My Life with the Rolling Stones, the Grateful Dead and other wonderful Reprobates by Sam Cutler.
I’ve known Sam for years. I’ve never read his book. He hassled me about it the moment I landed back in Australia. So now I’m reading it, and it’s awesome. I regret not reading it sooner.
What product or service do you wish existed?
Faster planes. Concorde still wouldn’t be fast enough. The older I get the more I hate sitting in a metal tube for hours on end.
What product are you obsessively using right now?
I live by DoTalk. Go see and you’ll understand.
What’s your favorite Trends Report?
🤩 Personal Brands and 🙌 Audience-First Products
Love them both. Actually I love every damn report. But these two are constant gold mines for me.
What else?
It’s so much easier to criticize than it is to create.
Creating is putting yourself out into the world. Saying this is me.
Be proud of what you do.
Be proud of who you are.
Much love,
MPA
👀 Watch This
Ian and I jumped on a call for the Demand Curve Growth Summit. We talked about growing newsletters, building support networks and doing comfort challenges.
🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins
🆕 Shuyen Phoon, Elijah Buford and Nando became Trends Pro Members
👥 Felipe Collins, Shuyen Phoon and Elijah Buford unlocked 1:1 Founder Intros by joining daily standups
🗓️ Parth Pareek launched Loopin on Product Hunt
👔 Tom Maciejewski’s list of 100 B2B marketing and growth LinkedIn creators went viral
💻 Elijah Buford created a landing page for his no-code agency
🧠 Jawad Sefiani unlocked Trends.vc Masterminds by reaching a 30-day standup streak
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