This week’s Founder Finds includes:
- A ChatGPT plugin list
- How to write great profiles
- A book about boosting sales
- Newsletter growth strategies
- An app for making reading lists
- The 16 levels of financial freedom
- Startup advice from Steve Wozniak
- 17 business tasks you can automate
- How to build websites with AI prompts
- And more…
🪶 Remember This
Learn to handle failure. It’s the hardest thing, but once you get over it, nothing can stop you.
🤓 Fav Finds
Tools, tweets and more from Trends Pro Members
🎨 Wix AI Site Builder shared by Dru Riley
A new feature of Wix that lets you build websites with prompts
🦄 Steve Wozniak on Startups shared by Chuck Hardy
A video of Steve Wozniak sharing advice on building startups
🤑 Sell Like Crazy shared by Brenton Price
A book about boosting sales with digital marketing
🔧 Try This
Save 400 Hours per Month Through Automation
Jimmy Rose is an automation expert. He shares 17 SaaS business tasks that you can automate to save dozens of hours every month, including:
- Onboarding: Tracking leads, sign-ups and trials.
- Support: Answering questions and getting feedback.
- Marketing: Planning, publishing and sharing content.
🌟 Founder of the Week
“Trends.vc was one of the few newsletters I kept reading and I’m glad I decided to join the Trends Pro Community.”
Barbara is building bric, helping companies find and implement the best solutions to understand their customers and make the right decisions.
What’s your most important habit?
Cold showers, seas and reading before going to sleep.
What are you reading right now?
The Most Secret Memory of Men by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr
I plan to read more fiction this year. Loving this one so far!
What product or service do you wish existed?
A machine that automatically folds your laundry in Marie Kondo-style and an e-reader that helps to memorize what you’re reading.
What product are you obsessively using right now?
Readwise Reader which helps to track and memorize newsletters. It has powerful highlighting features and AI that lets you summarize or “talk” to the text.
What are you bullish on?
E-bikes and e-scooters for (sub)urban environments. They are sustainable, cheap and often help you get from point A to point B faster than cars.
What are you bearish on?
Mass-produced AI-generated content. I am not against using AI writing tools, but it just makes me sad how many ebooks, blogs, videos, Tweets are just recycled content. People will recognize quality.
What’s your favorite Trends Report?
🔢 Data as a Service
This was my first Trends Pro report and it was immediately spot-on for me.
What else?
If there is anyone planning to build something for the Vision Pro, would love to get in touch.
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📘 Read This
The Spectrum of Financial Dependence and Independence
From relying on the kindness of strangers to meaningful philanthropy.
There are 16 levels that define your financial (in)dependence.
- Level 0: Panhandling or raising money from people who don’t care about your success.
- Level 8: The ability to choose what you do and who you work with.
- Level 16: Building a mindful, positive legacy.
🎧 Listen To
How “The Internet’s Biographer” Writes Great Profiles
Polina Marinova Pompliano is the author of The Profile which studies successful people and companies in business, tech, sports, entertainment and more.
Learn the difference between profiles and biographies, the economics of a paid newsletter, effective newsletter growth strategies and more.
🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins
👥 Karen Puah, Royce Johnson and David Fu unlocked 1:1 Founder Intros by joining daily standups
🤖 Maisha Cannon made a huge list of 660+ ChatGPT plugins
✍️ Asad Dhamani shared his experience working on Solvemigo
🌲 Uwe Dreissigacker is re-launching EvergreenFeed
🥂 David K is building a SaaS tool to analyze luxury brands
🏷️ Simon Daley made a Discounts page for Hacker Cabin that is open for submissions
🤝 Mehmet Gonullu signed the first sponsorship deal for The CTO Show
👔 Jesper Delporte published new product pages for Cheegs
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