This week’s Founder Finds includes:
🎙️ An interview with Dru
✍️ The benefits of writing
🧰 A directory of 1,000 tools
🎛️ A dashboard design guide
🤖 A tool for chaining AI models
👥 How to get your first 1,000 users
➡️ And more…
🪶 Remember This
Formula for success: double your rate of experiments.
🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins
👥 Onu Ocholi and Keihan Popal unlocked 1:1 Founder Intros by joining daily standups
🚀 Eddie Forson launched EnVsion AI on Product Hunt
📅 Ash launched Review My Year
💼 Maisha Cannon was featured on the Trap Chat podcast
🛠️ Simon got the first paid listing on Hand Picked Tools
🎙️ Dru Riley was interviewed on the Where It Happens podcast
🧰 Kevin C. Whelan hosted a Trends Pro workshop on Starting as a Fractional CMO
🤓 Fav Finds
Tools, tweets and more from Trends Pro Members
🤖 Leap AI shared by Yuyu
A tool to add AI models to your workflows
🎛️ Dashboard UI Design shared by Prabhjot Singh Lamba
A guide to designing user interfaces
🧰 1000.tools shared by Breno Ferreira
A curated directory of the “1,000 best tools”
📘 Read This
How to Start and Scale a Consumer Business
How to acquire your first 1,000 users:
- Go where your target audience is
- Talk to friends and colleagues
- Talk to targeted strangers
- Get physical placement
- Work with influencers
- Make viral content
- Get press
Do things that don’t scale.
🌟 Founder of the Week
“Three thoughts:
I’ve been a Trends Pro member for a week. It was a great experience:
1. Got feedback on my startups’ website which led to positive changes.
2. Daily Standups keep me focused and motivated.
3. Re-reading all Trends Pro reports.“
Don is building Launchpad Legal. It offers legal services, startup information, and guidance to help first-time founders start and grow their businesses.
What’s your most important habit?
Keeping an abundance mindset. I may have a bad day, but I rarely have two bad days in a row.
I spent the last 20 months building a startup that failed. Lessons learned. With that knowledge, I started 2 new businesses.
What are you reading right now?
Just finished Company of One by Paul Jarvis. My failed startup was an attempt at a “homerun” business, with the largest team I would have ever led.
I read this book to reset my mindset about what a “successful” business means.
What product or service do you wish existed?
A luxury version of OpenTable where I could call a week before I wanted to have dinner and get into any restaurant (this was the concept of my failed startup).
What product are you obsessively using right now?
Reflect.app. It’s a note-taking app that integrates seamlessly into my workflow. It’s a perfect combination of Roam Research and Evernote. Anything I add gets backlinked and connected: tweets, emails, ideas and more.
What are you bullish on?
In-person meetings. Studies have scientifically proven that remote meetings don’t stimulate the brain as much as in-person meetings.
What are you bearish on?
College degrees (unless you want to become a doctor, lawyer or anybody where a degree is a must).
The system is flawed:
1) Expensive and encourages going into debt.
2) The “jobs of tomorrow” may not be the same as “the jobs of today”.
What’s your favorite Trends Report?
🔥 The FIRE Movement and 😍 Personal Brands. The two most important topics to me right now, personally and professionally.
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- (📈 Pro) Time tracking apps for productivity
🔧 Try This
Writing can improve your decision-making, creativity and productivity.
- The great explainer: If you can write it, you can truly explain it.
- Memory enhancer: You better retain information when you retrieve it from your own mind.
- Creative tool: Writing helps to track your ideas and make unique material for creative content.
Writing can unlock parts of your mind that are harder to access otherwise.
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