This week’s Founder Finds includes:
- An AI text-to-song tool
- How to build a 5-year plan
- A video series on the basics of AI
- A step-by-step landing page guide
- An AMA about reaching $100,000 ARR
- A reminder about taking responsibility
- An essay on the network effects of ideas
- And more…
🪶 Remember This
Believe you can and you’re halfway there.
🤓 Fav Finds
Tools, tweets and more from Trends Pro Members
🎨 Landing Page Guide shared by Royce Johnson
A step-by-step guide to building high-converting landing pages
🤖 How AI Works shared by Prabhjot Singh Lamba
A YouTube playlist of short videos to learn about the basics of AI
🎵 Suno AI shared by Stewart Townsend
An AI tool that generates songs from text prompts. Listen to some examples here
🔧 Try This
Create a 5-Year Plan That Fires You Up
Do you know what you want or will be doing in 5 years?
It’s easy to get lost in your daily routine and lose sight of goals you have for the future.
Learn how to make a 5-year plan with a long-term vision and key steps to achieving your goals.
🌟 Founder of the Week
“I love Trends Pro. The reports are great and the community is awesome.”
Nik is building Hybrain.Academy. It’s an AI school for non-techies that helps them learn AI to save time and money doing personal and business tasks.
What product or service do you wish existed?
AI SaaS that helps people build good habits.
What product are you obsessively using right now?
ChatGPT. It helps me work faster.
What are you bullish on?
AI agents. These will help us remove inefficiencies.
What are you bearish on?
Nation-state. Nation-states lead to fights and bias They make it harder for people to move freely and ignore the voice of small groups.
What’s your favorite Trends Report?
🤖 ChatGPT
Because my ChatGPT online course was included! 🙂
Exclusive Deal: Nik is offering Trends.vc readers 20% off his ChatGPT Cash Cow course using the code TRENDSVC20.
💬 Join the Conversation
Here’s what Trends Pro Members are talking about…
- (📈 Pro) Using Evernote vs Notion
- (📈 Pro) How to find a co-founder
- (📈 Pro) The fastest path to product launch
📘 Read This
Everything we do is based on narratives — stories that explain how the world works.
- AI is booming – you started building an AI startup.
- You heard carbs are bad – you started eating salads for lunch.
- You saw “true love” in a movie – you broke up because it didn’t feel right.
Narratives have network effects. When more people see that the narrative is promising, more people start using it, investing in it, talking about it and building it.
That’s how ideas grow.
🎧 Listen To
It’s Not Your Fault, But It Is Your Responsibility
Expecting nothing but good feels like a good mindset. But then life happens.
There are dogs that get sick in the middle of the night, unpleasant conversations, hard decisions and more. Most people’s reaction is to shirk.
Things are hard and scary. It’s not your fault. But it’s your responsibility to do what has to be done.
🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins
👥 Gab, Frank Jones and Jinay Shah unlocked 1:1 Founder Intros by joining daily standups
💯 Maciej Cupial hosted an AMA about Calendesk’s journey to $100,000 ARR
🎙️ Simon Daley was featured in a podcast
✒️ Dale Williams wrote about ethics in coaching
🎞️ Elie Steinbock’s YouTube channel reached 100+ subscribers
🐺 Stewart Townsend signed the first customer for Podcast Wolf
💌 Yarty reached 1,000 subscribers for FP&HEY
🚗 Prabhjot Singh Lamba built a simple car game with Spline
📝 Maisha Cannon launched a guide for recruiters
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