This week’s Founder Finds includes:
- A no-code marketplace guide
- Deciding which features to automate
- A book about our relationship with money
- 15 brainstorming questions for better ideas
- A ChatGPT alternative for technical questions
- And more…
🪶 Remember This
Those who succeed are irrationally passionate about something.
🤓 Fav Finds
Tools, tweets and more from Trends Pro Members
💲 The Psychology of Money shared by Nirav Multani
A book about our relationship with money, with insights for better financial decisions and fulfillment
💻 Phind shared by Reme Ekoh
An AI search engine for technical questions that provides code snippets and sources for its responses
🛍️ Affiliate SEO shared by Kevin Deol
A deep-dive analysis of 10,000 affiliate- related keywords
📘 Read This
The Guide to No-Code Marketplaces
Trusted by 7,500+ marketplace builders. This guide will teach you how to build, launch and scale an online marketplace using no-code.
🌟 Founder of the Week
“I have loved the experience in Trends Pro since I jumped in. It has the right mix of content, curiosity and gamification. It feels like what the alumni of Seth Godin’s AltMBA should have been but never was. For me it has exceeded expectations.“
Dale is building connecteddale.com. Supporting businesses in tackling two elusive things: a crystal-clear vision of the future and a team that’s aligned to make it a reality.
What’s your most important habit?
Power yoga every morning for an hour.
What are you reading right now?
Life by Keith Richards
Robert Greene opened me up to the powerful stories of people who have and haven’t mastered human nature in his books Mastery, Power and The Laws of Human Nature. I love using an understanding of psychology and personality to understand others and in the process better understand myself.
What product or service do you wish existed?
A simple way to manage a portfolio of global assets without paying an advisor a percentage of NAV.
What product are you obsessively using right now?
A 5’6″ 90-liter Reflex Carbon Phazer Foilboard from AK Durable Supply Company with 4, 5 and 6-meter wings. I check the wind and tides multiple times daily and get out on the water whenever possible. Totally addicted.
What are you bullish on?
A non-unipolar world where power is more balanced because, as Lord Acton says, “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely”.
Oh, and Ethereum, not the price but the use case.
What are you bearish on?
Experts.
They’re mostly wrong.
What’s your favorite Trends Report?
⛏ Curation as a Service
There is tremendous creativity in curating the existing into new forms. And we are fortunate to be exposed to diverse, thoughtful and challenging ideas, products, and services every day. Curation is the ultimate value creation in a crowded and complex world.
Exclusive Deal: Dale is offering Trends.vc readers 40% off his upcoming Simplify and Grow – Strategy Masterclass cohort-based accelerator program. Sign up here to secure your discount.
👀 Watch This
Many founders spend time and energy building features that nobody asked for.
Can you manually simulate a feature until you have proven demand?
Sarthak Ahuja says it is wise to learn what customers need before you automate.
At Trends.vc, we manually select mastermind hosts. This helps us work out the kinks before we automate this feature.
❔ Ask Yourself
Extreme Brainstorming Questions to Trigger Better Ideas
These 15 questions push the boundaries of business models to an extreme many would consider impossible. Extreme questions can reveal new ideas.
- How would you justify charging 10x more?
- How would you build your product without talking to customers?
- What would you do if your biggest competitor copied all your features?
🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins
👥 Rupert Wade, Yogesh Muthreja, Gregory Cronie and Valeri Gervaziev unlocked 1:1 Founder Intros by joining daily standups
👨🏻🎓 Emeric Victor launched Kids Learning Directory
📍 Whit launched Neighborhood Studios for hyperlocal startups
🎵 Thomas Sorheim [Danielsen] launched StoryBehind Newsletter
🚀 Swapnil Puranik launched Pitchery on Product Hunt
🍄 Mark Grimes successfully advised Cultiv8r Club, selling out an event in 39 days
☁️ Mehmet Gonullu made it to the front page of Indie Hackers and launched SubsPulse on Product Hunt
🧠 Renae Gregoire, Benhur Desta, Nicolo’ Borghi and Zaid Kaleem unlocked Trends.vc Masterminds by reaching 10-day standup streaks
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