This week’s Founder Finds includes:
💲 An AI sales agent
🎞️ A video editing platform
🥾 How to bootstrap efficiently
🌐 A website-building framework
🏃♂️ How to manage your dopamine levels
➡️ And more…
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🦄 Bernardt J. Vogel wrote about VC trends
📅 Maciej Cupial was featured on Founder Stacks by Pierce P.
💧 Yuyu made a water intake calculator
🎙️ Maisha Cannon was featured on the And So, She Left podcast
🛡️ M. Yousuf Faisal made a teaser video for a Securing Things Academy training
🥳 Nitesh Manav reached 10 email referrals for Trends.vc
🤓 Fav Finds
Tools, tweets and more from Trends Pro Members
💲 Ghost shared by Chris Beaumont
An AI sales agent that can browse websites
🎞️ Wave.video shared by Caleb Hong
A platform for recording, editing and streaming videos
🌐 Hugo shared by Aaron Nesser
The world’s fastest framework for building websites
🐦 Tweet of the Week
🛠️ Tools of the Week
📝 AudioPen — Convert voice notes into text
👨💻 CodePal — Generate code with AI
🖼️ Aragon AI — Use AI to do a photo shoot
📘 Read This
Tools to Manage Dopamine and Improve Motivation & Drive
Dopamine is linked to our sense of motivation.
Low dopamine makes us unmotivated, tired and unable to feel pleasure from what we do.
Here’s how you can manage dopamine levels to boost motivation:
- Get early morning sunlight for 10-30 minutes daily.
- Don’t stack too many dopamine sources to avoid a crash afterward.
- Don’t view bright lights between 10 p.m. and 4 a.m. This drastically lowers dopamine.
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Designing the Ideal Bootstrapped Business
Starting a business is hard.
Starting a bootstrapped business is harder.
You don’t want to set up a foundation that works against you.
A better approach is to work from your natural advantages, disadvantages, goals and needs.
Then use these to figure out your business model, pricing, market, product, approach, advertising and more.
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