This week’s Founder Finds includes:
💲 An AI sales bot
🌐 A web scraping tool
🏷️ Startup business models
🌱 How to grow an account on X
🌟 How to craft a great product pitch
💡 Productivity tips from Sam Altman
🎙️ A tool to edit spoken words in a recording
➡️ And more…
🪶 Remember This
Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect.
🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins
💰 Yuyu wrote about building and selling opengraph.xyz for $20,000
🚀 Simon launched early bird access to MicroAssets
🎙️ Maisha Cannon was featured in the And So, She Left podcast
📈 Bernardt J. Vogel wrote about venture capital in 2024
🔄 Kevin Galang changed the monetization model for A Team Overseas
⚖️ Elie Steinbock wrote about the importance of product
🧠 Chris Beaumont, Sinan Guler and Georgios Diamantopoulos unlocked Trends.vc Masterminds by reaching 30-day standup streaks
🤓 Fav Finds
Tools, tweets and more from Trends Pro Members
🌱 How to Grow on X shared by Elie Steinbock
A thread with a lot of nuggets in the replies
💲 AI Sales Bot shared by Gianni D’Alerta
An AI tool that performs long sales and customer service calls
🏷️ Startup Business Models shared by Royce Johnson
A video on business models and product pricing for startups
🛠️ Tool of the Week
Apify is a platform for building, deploying and sharing web scraping and automation tools.
You can build web scrapers with Apify’s library, turn your projects into serverless apps and run them on Apify’s cloud.
It can scrape the web without getting blocked, store data and integrate it into the tools you already use.
You can also publish your own tools on the Apify Store to earn money.
🐦 Tweet of the Week
👀 Watch This
Overdub by Descript lets you fix mistakes and awkward phrases by editing the script.
Just fix the mistake in the text and Descript will automatically correct your voice recording.
No need to re-record. Descript makes fixing speech errors fast and easy.
📘 Read This
Productivity Tips From Sam Altman
Sam Altman is the CEO of OpenAI.
Here are some of his productivity tips:
- Maintain a balance between “trying hard” and personal well-being.
- The direction of work is crucial – working fast in the wrong direction is inefficient.
- Productivity soars when working on projects of interest – avoid or delegate the rest.
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How to Craft a Great Product Pitch that Sells
Here are the 5 steps to craft a great product pitch that will help you:
- Get execs to fund your product.
- Get customers to buy your offer.
- Get investors to back your startup.
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