This week’s Founder Finds includes:
🤝 27 places to find co-founders
🌞 The importance of compliments
💬 A transcription app for meetings
📌 Generating startup ideas from Reddit
🤖 How to use ChatGPT for email marketing
💎 How to find the real value of your product
⚙️ Setting up a life operating system in Notion
➡️ And more…
🪶 Remember This
Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.
🤓 Fav Finds
Tools, tweets and more from Trends Pro Members
🤖 Email Marketing with ChatGPT written by Renae Gregoire
A guide on using ChatGPT to build an email marketing campaign
⚙️ Notion Life Operating System shared by Eren Suzer
A Notion setup to maximize clarity and focus across all aspects of life
🤝 27 Places to Find Co-Founders shared by Royce Johnson
A list of places to meet potential co-founders
📘 Read This
Reddit has 138,000 subreddits. Each with its own set of users, rituals and problems.
Learn how to build a startup by serving the needs of users of an individual subreddit.
- Find • Look for active subreddits with lots of followers.
- Join • Ask questions, give answers, share resources.
- See • Find patterns, repeated problems and hot topics.
- Connect • Build a closer community outside of Reddit.
- Build • Build a product that serves the needs of the community.
- Improve • Iterate on your product to better serve the community.
🌟 Founder of the Week
“I’m glad I discovered Trends Pro. I really like standups. At first, I wondered what the point was. Every time I posted, some members would “like” my standup notes. But recently, I realized that reading other people’s updates can teach me a lot. They help me build my one-person business.”
Karthik helps one-person businesses and early-stage startups define value propositions, positioning and nail messaging across different forms of media.
What’s your most important habit?
Short HIIT workouts, 30 minutes of running and drinking 3 liters of water every day.
What are you reading right now?
Finished reading $100M Leads by Alex Hormozi. Started re-reading There’s a Customer Born Every Minute by Joe Vitale. It’s a great book about a man called P. T. Barnum (of Barnum & Bailey Circus) and his entrepreneurial genius.
What product are you obsessively using right now?
Claude for my writing and Tactiq for meetings. I love both.
What are you bullish on?
AI-powered learning. AI tools help me learn skills and topics faster than ever. What took me months to read and revise now takes minutes or hours.
What are you bearish on?
Unregulated AI. We need a master switch to prevent things such as a class action from the Authors Guild against ChatGPT. We need good policy-making to keep AI from becoming a bull in a china shop.
What’s your favorite Trends Report?
🤑 Million-Dollar, One-Person Businesses
It helped make a decision to start one myself.
What else?
I’m writing a book on finding your value proposition, nailing your positioning and crafting your messaging. If you have an experience with any of these, I’d love to hear what you know. I’m looking for founder stories to feature in the book. Stories help readers understand ideas better. If you have one, please send me an email. Mention “Trends.vc” in your email subject so I know where you come from.
Exclusive Deal: Karthik is offering the first 20 Trends.vc readers free two-month access to his No Excuses copywriting membership. Additionally, all Trends.vc readers get a free 30-day trial and 50% off the first year using the code TRENDS50.
💬 Join the Conversation
Here’s what Trends Pro Members are talking about…
- (📈 Pro) What is the best CRM?
- (📈 Pro) Hiring a marketing agency
- (📈 Pro) What to expect from influencer marketing
🔧 Try This
Thinking Something Nice About Someone?
People don’t hear enough compliments.
Even famous people say the thanks from the public is the best part of the job.
The happiness of making a difference in people’s lives is a motivation to keep going.
The next time someone makes a positive impact on your life, tell them your kind words of appreciation.
👀 Watch This
You Don’t Sell What You Think You Sell
The right positioning helps people understand what your product does and why they need it.
To find the right positioning, you need to identify the value of what you sell.
Josh Spector shares a few tips on how to find the real value of your product:
- What are the alternatives?
- What’s their value proposition?
- Why should customers choose you over them?
🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins
👥 Paris OG, Sandeeip Chincholkar and Ivan Zografski unlocked 1:1 Founder Intros by joining daily standups
✍️ Renae Gregoire launched the Beyond Copy newsletter
🎥 Errol Tiozon reached 100,000 total views on YouTube
🧠 Bernardt J. Vogel wrote a book review of Building a Second Brain
🏄 Jesper Delporte launched The Surf Scout newsletter
🔮 Tony Tong was accepted into a local incubator with Mindreader
📝 Mehmet Gonullu signed a long-term consultancy contract
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