This week’s Founder Finds includes:
- A consulting playbook
- An all-in-one sales funnel tool
- Using ChatGPT as a writing assistant
- A philosophical time management book
- Marko Saric’s story of reaching $100,000/mo
- Coming up with a one-sentence pitch of your product
- And more…
🪶 Remember This
There are more people who surrender than those who fail.
🤓 Fav Finds
Tools, tweets and more from Trends Pro Members
⌛ Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals shared by Kevin Deol
A philosophical approach to time management, reminding us that life is finite and more isn’t always better.
🎵 Groove.cm shared by Gabriel Limma
An all-in-one suite of apps with a free plan to build your sales funnel.
🖋️ Collaborative Creative Writing with ChatGPT shared by Stewart Townsend
A blog post detailing how you can use ChatGPT as a writing assistant.
📘 Read This
Tom Critchlow says trading time for money is a great economic tool.
His consulting playbook shows how you can live a fulfilling life by balancing time, energy and work as an independent consultant.
🌟 Founder of the Week
“Everything, and everyone in Trends Pro, is truly amazing. The full-length reports are essential reading, I learn so much. The community has been incredible – feel like I’m going to make some long-term relationships as a result of being part of it.”
Martin is building Product Prompts. A website aiming to be the #1 resource for building better products, faster – with ChatGPT, Midjourney and more.
What’s your most important habit?
Read, read, read.
I find endless sources of inspiration and creativity from reading all types of content. And not just books related to my work; non-fiction really helps me develop new ideas.
What are you reading right now? Why?
Build by Tony Fadell
Tony Fadell led the team that created the iPod and the iPhone. He’s also learned a lot of lessons from failures too. The book is full of stories and advice about leadership, startups, design, and decision-making.
What product are you obsessively using right now?
Truthfully it’s ChatGPT, which I’m using daily for creating Product Prompts. Other than that the one product I use the most is actually Centered – https://www.centered.app. It’s the ultimate productivity hack, with AI coaches, fantastic music, and even 1:1 working sessions. It’s become essential to my day.
What are you bullish on?
AI of course 🙂
It’s just so clear to me that there are so many use cases and so many industries which are going to change dramatically, really quickly. I’m trying not to get over-hyped but I genuinely believe it’s going to be as transformative to our lives as the internet itself was.
What’s your favorite Trends Report?
🔬 Micro-Consulting
It’s highly relevant to my day job as a strategy and innovation consultant, and gave me loads of ideas on how to grow, and how to be ahead of the pack in what is a competitive marketplace.
❔ Ask Yourself
Can You Explain What Your Product Does In One Sentence?
Prospective customers should understand what your product does and how it’s better than alternatives.
A one-sentence pitch is a great way to explain it in simple terms. The more we understand it, the easier it is for us to try and share your product with others.
🎧 Listen To
Bootstrapping to $100,000/mo in a Crowded Market
Marko Saric talks about building, marketing and growing a B2B SaaS in a crowded market.
He shares how positioning, content marketing and comparative advertising can help you compete with established players.
🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins
🆕 Francois Carlier and Muhammad Bin Sabir became Trends Pro Members
👥 Daniel Johnson, Thorben Schlätzer, Francois Carlier and Daniel Dixon unlocked 1:1 Founder Intros by joining daily standups
🗺️ Swapnil Puranik launched a Life Assessment Handbook
💰 Bernardt J. Vogel did a presentation about Reimagining VC
✨ Martin Slaney launched the first edition of The Product Manager’s Prompt Book
📅 Maciej Cupial published the December monthly update for Calendesk
🧠 Gabriel Limma and James Renouf unlocked Trends.vc Masterminds by reaching 10-day standup streaks
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