This week’s Founder Finds includes:
🧊 A cold email guide
📰 A blog about big ideas
🤔 A book on clear thinking
🌱 How to have a fulfilling career
🎧 An AI-powered podcast player
💬 A community building framework
➡️ And more…
🪶 Remember This
Great products are made by people who care.
🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins
🤖 Frank Jones finished his 30 AI tools in 30 days challenge
🎞️ Elie Steinbock posted his first YouTube short
🏏 Prabhjot Singh Lamba made a Cricket Simulator for World Cup 2023
🎥 Uwe Dreissigacker made a series of tutorial videos for BlogHandy
📝 Hamed Mohammadpour shared his notes on an AMA session with Marty Cagan
🦾 Daniel Berggren landed a large marketing automation project
🧠 Karthik Vijayakumar unlocked Trends.vc Masterminds by reaching a 30-day standup streak
🤓 Fav Finds
Tools, tweets and more from Trends Pro Members
💬 Community Canvas shared by Prabhjot Singh Lamba
A framework for building meaningful communities
🎧 Snipd shared by Kevin Galang
A podcast player with AI-powered note-taking features
📰 Collab Blog shared by Eddie Forson
A high-signal blog from the author of The Psychology of Money
📘 Read This
You’ll spend ~80,000 hours working in your career: 40 hours a week, 50 weeks a year, for 40 years.
How to spend that time is one of the most important decisions you’ll ever make.
This guide will help to have a more rewarding and interesting life. You will learn:
- What makes a dream job?
- How to find the right career for you?
- How to be more successful in any job?
- Which jobs put you in a better position?
- How to choose which problems to focus on?
🌟 Founder of the Week
“I check Trends Pro at 10:30 AM every day. This is my go-to place to stay ahead of the curve in my thinking and business.“
Ivan is building Solveo. An innovation consultancy focused on smart product launches and fast growth. With a strategy honed from a decade of experience, Solveo has collaborated with over 500 companies across 15 industries.
What’s your most important habit?
Reading and exercising. I read 3-4 books per month and workout or run 10 km every day.
What are you reading right now?
Clear Thinking by Shane Parrish
His blog, Farnam Street, has been my go-to source for learning new things.
What product or service do you wish existed?
A truly autonomous agent. It will be a game-changer.
What product are you obsessively using right now?
ChatGPT and the OpenAI API. The chat interface is the gold standard for integrating AI in our lives.
What are you bullish on?
I’m bullish on people and business experiments. Success comes from the people you work with and the things you try during your business journey.
What are you bearish on?
Negative people who I try to avoid in my daily life.
What’s your favorite Trends Report?
🦄 Startup Studios — The first one I saw.
📦 Digital Products — I first started thinking about a digital product after reading this.
🔁 Productized Services — It helps us productize our agency.
🤖 ChatGPT — The tool I’m obsessively using right now.
Exclusive Deal: Ivan is offering Trends.vc readers 60% off Solveo’s signature Launch with AI Program with the code trends60.
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🔧 Try This
You may think that cold email is dead. But you’re wrong.
Cold email has a 4,400% return per $1 spent.
Here’s how you can master cold emails:
- Contact the right person.
- Make it about them, not you.
- Write an awesome subject line.
- Finish your email with a call to action.
- Don’t send the same email to everyone.
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