This week’s Founder Finds includes:
- How to use quiz funnels
- An email marketing course
- A collaborative document tool
- A guide to SaaS pricing models
- How to organize your digital notes
- The websites used to train ChatGPT
- A book about scaling up companies fast
- And more…
🪶 Remember This
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.
🤓 Fav Finds
Tools, tweets and more from Trends Pro Members
🌐 The Websites That Make ChatGPT Sound Smart shared by Matt Spear
An analysis of the wide range of websites used to train AI chatbots
📇 Typed shared by Darren Travel
A collaborative tool to handle scattered information across documents and workflows
🧠 Linking Your Thinking shared by Flippy
A YouTube channel about personal knowledge management
🔧 Try This
An average startup spends 6 hours on its pricing strategy. Not six hours a year or quarter. Six hours in total.
Ryan Law shares pricing models, strategies and psychological hacks. Which you can use to optimize your pricing and boost profitability.
🌟 Founder of the Week
“My favorite aspects of Trends Pro are masterminds and Trends Pro Reports.”
Jwalant is building Shadowing.ai. A patent-pending AI-powered platform that focuses on helping students proactively practice and assess their skills for interviews, onboarding process, work culture assessment and employee performance review with real-time feedback. Jwalant is also a member of Trends Mastermind #0005.
What’s your most important habit?
Waking up early and reading each day.
What are you reading right now?
Blitzscaling by Reid Hoffman
What product are you obsessively using right now?
Visual Studio Code to write code.
Google Docs to write almost everything.
What are you bullish on?
AI changing education in fun and useful ways.
What are you bearish on?
Regional banks and real estate due to increasing interest rates and debt.
What’s your favorite Trends Report?
🏦 Revenue-Based Financing
Exclusive Deal: Jwalant is offering Trends.vc readers 25% off the yearly subscription of Shadowing.ai with the code “TRENDSVC25”.
📘 Read This
The Art of Email Marketing: Earn Customers & Make Superfans
Learn how to build an email marketing engine that brings new customers and turns them into superfans.
🎧 Listen To
How (and Why) You Should Be Using Quizzes
Chanti Zak talks about getting into quiz building, the different types of quizzes and how you can build your own quiz to get thousands of qualified leads and boost your sales.
🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins
👥 Denis Dybsky, Kunal Chopra, Amechi Egbe, Luciano Viterale and Jesper Delporte unlocked 1:1 Founder Intros by joining daily standups
👶 Mehmet Gonullu made a video about Baby AGI
👨💻 Simon Daley interviewed an indie founder
🥾 Benjamin Debonneville wrote a bootstrapping case study
🤖 Maisha Cannon posted 7 AI tools for recruiters
🛌 Iggy Love created a pitch deck for Dreamescape
🧠 Jefferson Rumanyika unlocked Trends.vc Masterminds by reaching a 10-day standup streak
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