This week’s Founder Finds includes:
🕸️ An SEO case study
🏷️ A list of pricing tactics
📚 How to communicate as a leader
✍️ Using ChatGPT for content creation
👨💻 How to profit from building software
🦄 What makes startup studios successful
📓 Training an AI chatbot with journal entries
➡️ And more…
🪶 Remember This
Focus is saying no.
🤓 Fav Finds
Tools, tweets and more from Trends Pro Members
🏷️ Pricing Psychology shared by Prabhjot Singh Lamba
A list of tactics to make your prices more appealing
🕸️ $10,000/mo From SEO shared by Vikash Kumar Prajapati
A case study on how a menswear blog grew to $10,000/month
📓 Inner Child Chatbot shared by David Fu
A Twitter thread on training an AI chatbot with childhood journal entries
🎧 Listen To
How to Profit by Building Software
Non-tech founders often opt-in for building digital products instead of software.
Spencer Haws has built and sold successful software businesses without coding experience.
He talks about building niche software, talking to customers and finding buyers for your online business.
🌟 Founder of the Week
“The Trends Pro Community has been helpful in providing well-needed perspective, support and accountability.”
Rupert is building Applaud to help students prepare for a future with AI-powered workplaces.
What’s your most important habit?
My most important habit is praying, reinforced by the belief that my pursuits serve a purpose greater than just my own.
What are you reading right now?
The Articulate Executive by Granville N. Toogood
This book helped me improve my clarity in verbal communication.
What product or service do you wish existed?
A tool to get rid of my physical mail. There’s too much junk mail that ends up in waste.
What product are you obsessively using right now?
I use GPT-4 and prompt engineering to make digital expert avatars trained on any textual datasets. I can ask them to share insights using natural language. All without writing one line of code.
What are you bullish on?
AI which is fine-tuned for specific industries and tasks. It will boost the transfer of tacit knowledge. AI is smart, efficient and productive. It doesn’t eat, sleep or rest. It has unlimited creativity. I can’t imagine what it will be capable of in 10 years.
What are you bearish on?
The current educational and employment systems. Student debt, declining job satisfaction and AI are changing them fast. With companies not asking for a degree, we might see a more holistic approach to skill building than a mere focus on getting a degree.
What’s your favorite Trends Report?
The 🔬 Micro-Consulting report offered valuable insights on how to use my experience to build a product and shared useful tools to help me do this.
What else?
I’m launching a webinar series on automation, the future of work and education. We’re in the planning phase and haven’t started filming. If you have a unique perspective on these topics or are interested in collaborating, I’d love to connect.
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- (📈 Pro) What is the best CRM?
- (📈 Pro) Hiring a marketing agency
- (📈 Pro) What to expect from influencer marketing
📘 Read This
The Future of Startups are Studios
Companies founded by startup studios tend to produce better returns and scale faster.
Here are the key points that make startup studios successful:
- Knowledge • They accumulate knowledge and resources from building multiple companies.
- Diversification • They move from idea to idea fast, boosting the chances of success.
- System • They have a proven process for building, growing and monetizing ideas.
With no-code and low-code tools, the opportunity cost of running experiments is getting lower.Welcome to the golden age of startup studios.
👀 Watch This
Fears of failure, judgment and success prevent you from achieving things you deserve.
Here are a few things to remember when the fear takes over you:
- It is okay to ask for support.
- Failure is part of your growth.
- Fear is in your mind while danger is real.
🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins
👥 Andreas Lohr and Chakria Visagan unlocked 1:1 Founder Intros by joining daily standups
✍️ Renae Gregoire wrote about how to use ChatGPT to create content
🎪 Simon launched buildinpublic.page
🧩 Asad Dhamani built a TypingMind plugin
📅 Maisha Cannon documented her daily AI use
🤖 Bernardt J. Vogel was featured on Confluence.VC with Foundational VC GPT
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