This week’s Founder Finds includes:
📅 How to plan your week
👨🍳 A list of OpenAI API guides
🎬 An AI-powered teleprompter app
🧠 The key skills every founder needs
🪴 50 ways to make your life greener
📚 A book on becoming the key person of your industry
➡️ And more…
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🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins
👥 Sahil Sangani, Peter Elkins, Ioannis Bakagiannis, Pavels Gurskis, Joe Montanino, Don Ho, Marc Kreuzer, Shreyans Bhansali, Pierce P., Rob Blake and Avy Leghziel unlocked 1:1 Founder Intros by joining daily standups
💰 Simon sold his side project
🎙️ Abhishek Kumar was featured in Lex Roman’s podcast
💡 Prabhjot Singh Lamba was accepted to Microsoft Founders Hub
🔥 Bernardt J. Vogel wrote about hype in tech
👨💻 Elie Steinbock made a video on the code behind Shadcn CLI
🤖 Eddie Forson wrote about AI in UX research
🤓 Fav Finds
Tools, tweets and more from Trends Pro Members
🎬 BigVu shared by Darren Travel
An AI-powered teleprompter and video editor
👨🍳 OpenAI Cookbook shared by Elie Steinbock
A collection of guides and examples for using OpenAI API
🧠 Key Skills for Founders shared by Royce Johnson
A list of skills every startup founder needs
🎧 Listen To
Questions to Ask When Planning Your Week
Planning your week can help you stay focused and avoid wasting time on tasks that don’t matter.
Here are a few questions to help you plan your weeks better:
- What do you want to accomplish this week?
- Is your to-do list for this week realistic?
- Do you have time for yourself?
🌟 Founder of the Week
“I love being a Trends Pro member. The Trends.vc team shares a concise yet in-depth summary of niche businesses that people are growing to huge success. They help you find hidden gems few people know about.“
Kevin is building How to Sell Advice. He helps independent marketers create highly profitable businesses selling their expertise, not just their hands.
What’s your most important habit?
Morning exercise. It gives me mental clarity and energy which help me do my best work the rest of the day.
What are you reading right now?
Oversubscribed by Daniel Priestly. He shares a great formula for building interest and selling expertise.
Another book by Daniel is Key Person of Influence. Highly recommended.
What product or service do you wish existed?
A service that would turn all of my training, writing, resources and consulting calls into:
1. Quality content for different social media platforms.
2. Searchable knowledge base of everything I know.
What product are you obsessively using right now?
Dropbox Dash. It is a search bar for all of your cloud storage, email, calendars and project management apps.
What are you bullish on?
Hybrid consulting which combines personalized advice with access to additional resources, training and community—for a reasonable cost.
I’ve been building my membership around 1:1 sessions, group calls, community and a content library. Self-learners with lower budgets can access content and community for self-paced learning.
What are you bearish on?
AI as a threat to people who sell their expertise. It is good at reproducing content. Original thinking is a unique blend of knowledge and nuance. Which AI lacks.
What’s your favorite Trends Report?
🤓 Consulting is the best one.
What else?
Thanks for highlighting me! Everything I do lives at https://kevin.me and gets distributed outward from there. If anyone is looking to dig deeper into any of these ideas, that’s where you’ll find them. 🙏
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50 Simple Ways to Make Your Life Greener
Expert tips on how to be kinder to the planet – from cooking and cleaning to fashion and finance.
All without complicating your life.
- Recycle: Sort waste into different categories.
- Minimize packaging: Take your own containers to shops.
- Shop locally: The shorter the food chain, the less waste it creates before reaching you.
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