This week’s Founder Finds includes:
- A daily planner app
- An AI text-to-video tool
- How to set the right KPIs
- Assets for sale under $15k
- Why you should travel more
- How to capture more emails
- 300+ data visualization tools
- How to get your first 100 users
- And more…
🪶 Remember This
Turn one day into day one.
🤓 Fav Finds
Tools, tweets and more from Trends Pro Members
🎥 Fliki shared by Swapnil Puranik
An AI text-to-video tool to create content quick
🎯 Setting KPIs and Goals shared by Chuck Hardy
A video on setting the right KPIs and priorities for your startup
📊 Data Visualization Resources shared by Prabhjot Singh Lamba
A collection of 300+ data visualization tools, apps, libraries and more
🔧 Try This
Get your first 100 users with 107 marketing ideas with step-by-step instructions.
- Affiliate Marketing: Get others to sell for you.
- Side Project Marketing: Build side projects to generate leads.
- Influencer Marketing: Transfer trust and attention from influencers to brands.
🌟 Founder of the Week
“I’ve made great friends and met collaborators in Trends Pro. I’m always learning from Trends Pro Members in the community and masterminds while building alongside awesome people!”
Jordan is building Everyday Innovation. A resource hub, podcast and community that helps “creatorpreneurs” build and launch impactful businesses.
What’s your most important habit?
I journal at least once in the morning and once at night. This helps me spend my days with intention and gratitude. I have learned more about myself through this practice. With so much going on in my life as a mom, entrepreneur, and just as a human in general, it has been incredibly valuable.
What are you reading right now?
The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz
Building a business in tough times or in a new niche requires resilience and a strategic mindset. This book helped me get this unique perspective on how to do that.
What product or service do you wish existed?
I wish there was an AI tool that could connect all of my bookmarks from different apps and organize my information into easily searchable and readable data and insights.
What product are you obsessively using right now?
Besides several AI tools for brainstorming, content refinement and editing… I’d have to go with a solid favorite over the years, Sunsama!
It keeps my (neurodivergent) brain organized when it comes to projects, tasks, events and proper time management.
What are you bullish on?
From a general perspective, I am bullish on the democratization of innovation. I support tech innovation that lower barriers to entry, such as no-code and low-code, open-source projects, community-based collaboration platforms, creator tools and AI.
What are you bearish on?
Traditional online course formats. Conversion and completion rates aren’t worth the time and effort for most edu-creators. I think the majority of people are tired of self-paced content without actionable exercises, a community of peers and/or a cohort to get support and accountability.
What’s your favorite Trends Report?
🦄 Startup Studios
It is the first Trends Pro report that I read. It absolutely blew my mind that a business model that I wanted to build actually existed and had a name. I am actively building my own startup studio and I believe that we’ll see many studios started by indie hackers and solopreneurs alongside their communities.
What else?
I’m always looking for creator-entrepreneurs for my podcast Everyday Innovation.
Want to be a guest? Apply here!
Exclusive Deal: Jordan is offering Trends.vc readers 50% off any Innovisory Session with the code TRENDS50.
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📘 Read This
Travel isn’t reserved for the young, but a certain type of travel is only available while you are young.
- When you’re 20: you can hop from country to country, make friends with strangers in hours and roll with them for weeks.
- When you’re 40: travel becomes more domesticated, planned and family-friendly.
- When you’re 60: you have the time to travel freely but your energy is limited.
That “adventure” that you are delaying to some time in the future is not going to be there.
Seize it now or watch it disappear forever.
🎧 Listen To
Tim Stoddart and Ethan Brooks break down how successful newsletters build their websites to boost the conversion.
They talk about page design, pop-ups, incentives and crafting high quality calls to action that turn leads into subscribers.
🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins
👥 Tim Jones unlocked 1:1 Founder Intros by joining daily standups
📈 Trends.vc was featured in Entrepreneur.com
📝 Vasil built a template for collecting user feedback
🚀 Simon Daley launched linky and the Micro Assets newsletter
🤝 Uwe Dreissigacker started an affiliate program for BlogHandy
🎙️ Mehmet Gonullu launched the waitlist for ShowGenie
👥 Eddie Forson wrote about the TEDW method for user interviews
🧠 Vikash Kumar Prajapati and Errol Tiozon unlocked Trends.vc Masterminds by reaching 30-day standup streaks
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