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🗓️ Annual Life Review ⌛ Timeboxing 📖 Shared Fictions


This week’s Founder Finds includes:

  • A free behavior analysis tool
  • How to conduct a life review
  • An essay about shared fictions
  • A time management technique
  • A social media management tool
  • And more…



🪶 Remember This


The most effective form of learning is practice, not planning.



🤓 Fav Finds

Tools, tweets and more from Trends Pro Members


🗓️ Annual Life Review shared by Tem
A framework to conduct your own self-paced annual life review.


⌛ Timeboxing shared by Swapnil Puranik
A time management technique for planning what you are going to do and when you will do it.


✨ Later shared by Jerome Green Jr
A social media management tool to plan, analyze, and publish content in advance.



🔧 Try This

Microsoft Clarity

A free alternative to behavior analysis tools such as FullStory and Hotjar. See heatmaps and session recordings for your sites.



🌟 Founder of the Week

Yarty Kim

“The Trends Pro community has been a treasure trove of insights and collaboration. I’ve met some of the smartest, friendliest, and most humble people here. I’m constantly learning from the community along with the Trends reports.”


Yarty is building Kick Ass Life. Inspiring founders and creators to live their most purposeful life by embracing challenges, taking action, and connecting with others in a meaningful way. He is also a member of Trends Mastermind #0001.

Yarty believes that growth happens when we push our limits. He thinks that we should become comfortable being uncomfortable, take on new challenges and most of all enjoy the ride. 


What’s your most important habit?
Journaling.

It helps me distill my thoughts, be honest with myself, and see through the noise of my own judgment.

I journal daily. Each December, I write a long journal post sharing all the good (and bad) that’s happened. Then schedule to send this a year later. It’s always a pleasant surprise to receive it.


What are you reading right now?
Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire by Brad Stone

Big fan of Brad’s work and an even bigger fan of his previous book titled “The Everything Store“.

 “The Everything Store” changed how I view my life and made me realize I was too comfortable. It prompted me to change my habits and led me to entrepreneurship and meeting new friends.


What product are you obsessively using right now?
Notion.

It has improved a lot over the past year. Everything from the app down to the databases. I use it daily, including my journaling habit.

If they could enable voice and video recording natively, that would be fantastic!


What are you bullish on?
Automation 100%.

The world of automation is here and is becoming more sophisticated every day.

Look at tools like Zapier, Make, and Pabbly. It’s incredible stuff and saves time for business owners and individuals alike.

It’s only going to get better with time.


What’s your favorite Trends Report?
🔁 XaaS: Anything as a Service


What else?
Be comfortable being uncomfortable. Take on new challenges. Growth happens when we push our limits. Most of all, enjoy the ride. Cheers!



📘 Read This

Legitimacy

Sapiens revealed shared fictions that we accept as truth. Taxes, nations, human rights, money and more.

I’ve found more shared fictions since then. Such as Caste from Isabelle Wilkerson and Legitimacy from Vitalik Buterin. 

To understand legitimacy is to understand brands, cryptocurrencies, monarchies and more.



🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins

🆕 Brian Rey, Mingwei Gu, Le Paul, Karthik Vijayakumar, Sachit Adhikari, Brianna Brazle, Mark Wilcox, Byron Wilson, Michal, Francesco and Juan Pablo Roqueni became Trends Pro Members


👥 Brian Rey, Marcos Gorgojo, William, Mingwei Gu, Elijah George, Paul Tune, Karthik Vijayakumar, Le Paul, Brianna Brazle, Mark Wilcox, Reed Floren, Vatsalya Verma, Byron Wilson and Gabriel Limma unlocked 1:1 Founder Intros by joining daily standups


🤖 Joel Pickin launched ThisIsBuiltWith.ai


💰 Jwalant Patel launched a salary negotiation course


🎞️ Jerome Green Jr shared his workflow of using Descript to edit video. This is a 📈 Trends Pro Exclusive.


🤝 Tem closed a deal with a high profile lead


🧠 Shuyen Phoon unlocked Trends.vc Masterminds by reaching a 30-day standup streak


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    AI Image Generators: AI-Generated Assets, Video Generators, Image Generation Jobs

    “Everything you can imagine is real.” – Pablo Picasso

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    ❓ What You’ll Learn

    • What will AI image generation professionals do?
    • How to launch NFT collections with AI image generators?
    • How are content creation platforms using AI image generators?
    • What businesses can you build with AI image generators?
    • How to generate a perfect image?
    • How to boost your productivity with AI image generators?


    💎 Why It Matters

    Now anyone can create quality images.


    🔍 Problem

    You have ideas for visual art. But you don’t have the ability to express them.


    💡 Solution

    AI Image Generators help you turn your ideas into high-quality images.

    In seconds. Without technical skills.


    🏁 Players

    AI Image Generation Apps

    • Pollinations • Create unrestricted and customized AI media
    • DreamStudio • Create AI-powered images using Stable Diffusion
    • Craiyon • Free online AI image generator from text
    • NightCafe • AI-powered text-to-image generator
    • Deep Dream Generator • Combine text and images to generate photorealistic art
    • Artbreeder • Create images by mixing them together and editing their genes
    • ImgCreator.ai • Creating illustrations, anime and concept design images
    • Starryai • Turn text into images
    • SceneryAI • Edit and generate background scenery for your images
    • Bertha AI • Create images for your WordPress blog
    • Playground AI • Discover prompts for art, social media posts, posters, logos and more
    • WOMBO Dream • Create portraits and abstract images in different styles
    • Photosonic • Free online text-to-image generator

    AI Image Generation Tools

    • AI Image Upscaler • Enhance image resolution with AI
    • DiffusionBee • Install Stable Diffusion on MacOS
    • Hugging Face • Build, train and deploy AI image generation models
    • MindsEye • Graphical user interface built to run multimodal AI art models for free
    • promptoMANIA • Online prompt builder
    • Grid Splitter • Split your AI image into single images
    • Colab • Run AI image generators in the cloud for free

    AI Image Generation Models

    • DALL·E 2 • Create realistic images and art from text
    • Stable Diffusion • A latent text-to-image diffusion model
    • Midjourney • Create images from textual descriptions
    • DeepAI • AI Image Generator API
    • Big Sleep • Simple command line tool for text-to-image generation
    • Jasper Art • Create images for your ads, blog, website and social media


    🔮 Predictions

    • We’ll see new jobs for AI image generation professionals. They will build, train and deploy AI models, write prompts, generate images and animations.
      • Clone Lexica for $4,000.
      • Build an AI image database for $750-1,500.
      • Create an AI-powered avatar builder for $2,000.
      • Become a Stable Diffusion coding expert for $5,000
      • Add text-to-image generator to a website for $750-2,000.
      • Teach advanced Midjourney techniques for $5-45 per hour.
      • Create artwork for an art gallery platform for $8-15 per hour.
      • Configure Stable Diffusion to create clothes for $8-$95 per hour.
      • Help with Stable Diffusion and DreamBooth for $65-200 per hour.
      • Create a custom DreamBooth and Stable Diffusion setup for $500.
      • Create 5-second animated videos with AI-generated images for $30-250.


    ☁️ Opportunities

    • Build a directory of AI image generator tools. Share new tools, models and services.


    🏔️ Risks

    • Platform Risk • You are subject to the platform’s content policies. Getty Images banned AI-generated images due to copyright worries. Newgrounds endorses art made by humans. Fur Affinity banned AI-generated images due to a lack of artistic merit.
    • Copyright Risk • AI image generators are trained on real artists’ concepts, attributes and styles. It’s unclear who owns the rights to AI-generated images. Artists can use Have I Been Trained? tool to check if their art appeared in training datasets.
    • High Costs• You may go bankrupt if you don’t balance the supply and demand for your AI business. Especially during the early stage. Interior AI grew to 23 customers and $500 MRR. While the GPU costs grew to $1,000 per day. Which was 60 times more than its monthly revenue.


    🔑 Key Lessons

    • Some artists don’t want to be used as training material. They fear AI will replace them. Greg Rutkowski says “when you type in my name, you see more work from the AI than work that I have done myself.”
    • Major AI image generators are trained on publicly available data. They use open datasets such as LAION-5B. Which scrapes sources such as Pinterest, DeviantArt, Getty Images and more.
    • Publicly available datasets may not be copyright-free. They may have images that have their rightful owners. LAION-5B and ImageNet explicitly say that images are under their own copyright.


    🔥 Hot Takes


    😠 Haters

    “Unrestricted, open-source image generators are subject to unethical use.”
    This is true. They do what we tell them to do. Deepfakes could be used for doing bad and good things. The same is true for AI image generators.

    “It can be hard to control the final result.”
    Many AI image generators are pre-trained models that follow a strict set of rules. Learn the art of writing prompts to produce detailed outcomes. Use open-source tools to fine-tune your models if you’re a tech-savvy person.

    “Digital artists may lose their value. It can be hard to distinguish between them and AI.”
    While AI can copy artists’ styles, it lacks a human touch. Those who value human personality, story, creativity and passion will continue to appreciate non-AI art.


    🔗 Links

    1. Looking for AI Image projects • The tweet behind this report.
    2. AI Image generators, a complete guide to this new technology • Introduction to how AI image generators work.
    3. The Anatomy Of An AI Art Prompt • Guide on how to write a good prompt for AI image generators.


    📁 Related Reports


    🙏 Thanks

    Thanks to Joel Pickin, Guillaume Tessier, Vlad R., Felipe Collins, Fausto Sá Teles, Sam Schrup, Stewart Townsend, Aja, Satish Jain, Frank Pei, Shashank, Marcos Gorgojo, Paul Tune and Marc Fletcher. We had a great time jamming on this report.


    ✏️ Emin researched and wrote this report. Dru researched and edited this report.


    📈 What else?

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    • 37 AI Image Generation Apps (185% More)
    • 25 AI Image Generation Tools (257% More)
    • 19 AI Image Generation Models (217% More)
    • 14 Predictions (250% More)
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    • 8 Key Lessons (167% More)
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    • (📈 Pro) How to use AI image generators to create NFTs?
    • (📈 Pro) How to create detailed image prompts?
    • (📈 Pro) How to restore old photos?
    • (📈 Pro) What are the benefits of building user communities?
    • (📈 Pro) How to sell AI-generated prints?
    • (📈 Pro) What are AI image generation plugins?
    • (📈 Pro) How to create AI-generated avatars of yourself?
    • (📈 Pro) What are open-source AI image generators?
    • (📈 Pro) How to set up an AI image generator?
    • (📈 Pro) How to create themed images?
    • (📈 Pro) How to monetize your expertise with AI image generators?
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    • (📈 Pro) How to turn 2D videos into 3D?
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    • (📈 Pro) What are the limitations of diffusion models?
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      ⌛ 10-Year Test 🦉 Guide to Wealth & Happiness 🤖 AI Avatars


      This week’s Founder Finds includes:

      • AI avatars
      • The 10-year test
      • A collection of Naval’s wisdom
      • Carving out time to be creative
      • A tool to visualize numerical data
      • A tool to quickly build apps in your browser
      • And more…



      🪶 Remember This


      Follow your bliss.



      🤓 Fav Finds

      Tools, tweets and more from Trends Pro Members


      📊 GRID shared by Bernardt J. Vogel
      A tool to build beautiful, interactive visualizations from complex numerical data.


      🦉 The Almanack of Naval Ravikant shared by Shuyen Phoon
      A collection of Naval’s wisdom on principles for building wealth and creating long-term happiness.


      👷 FlutterFlow shared by Sebastian Rohrmann
      An online tool to build fully functional apps in your browser fast, accelerating time to market.



      🔧 Try This

      Profile Picture AI

      Danny Postma’s ProfilePicture.ai is yet another sign of how fast Generative Tech is moving. Look out for this week’s report on AI Image Generators.



      🌟 Founder of the Week

      Lwany

      “Trends Pro reports are my gospel, I confide in the community as if they are my priests, and I aim to practice everything Dru preaches. I’m grateful to have found a place to expedite my learning and be surrounded by such kind and generous entrepreneurs. I only wish there were more women.”


      Lwany is building Petite Fashion Weekly. A curated newsletter for short fashionistas sharing the latest on all things style. Petite Ventures, the umbrella above Petite Fashion Weekly, will soon expand into other audience-first products like digital products and experiences. Lwany is also a member of Trends Mastermind #0006.


      What’s your most important habit?
      Getting an early start

      The earlier I wake up, the better my day, so I’ve been waking up at 5 am, but I’m working on making that 4 am.


      What are you reading right now?
      Find Your Unicorn Space by Eve Rodsky

      As with most women, I struggle with drawing boundaries and prioritizing myself, so I recently picked up Find Your Unicorn Space by Eve Rodsky. The book is an inspirational guide to carving out time and space to be creative. I’ll be reading the author’s first book, Fair Play, next which outlines how to divide household tasks and balance life.


      What product or service do you wish existed?
      A no-code tool for creating shoppable Pinterest-like boards that populates a product’s image, size availability, and price from affiliate links.

      I’d love to set up concept shops based on my audience’s most frequent requests (loungewear, office attire, etc.) with a partial paywall.


      What product are you obsessively using right now?
      After a bad case of burnout, I’m gearing up to start creating content again, and Notion has been God-sent. It allowed me to create a strategy along with monthly, weekly and daily checklists.


      What are you bearish on?
      Sacrificing the present for a future goal because tomorrow isn’t promised and all we have is now.


      What’s your favorite Trends Report?
      🗂️ Directories

      I considered selling a directory with 100+ retailers offering petite clothing, but ultimately decided against it. This report challenged me to re-evaluate my decision. The players outlined are incredibly inspiring, and the opportunities are pretty compelling.



      ❔ Ask Yourself

      10-Year Test

      I’m obsessed with the idea of compounding and by extension, long-term thinking. 

      I often ask: “Can you see yourself doing this for 10 years?” 

      This applies to friendships, business partnerships, hobbies and more. 

      Most of the benefits of compounding come later in the journey. It’s a question worth asking early and often.



      🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins

      🆕 Sebastian Rohrmann and Mehmet Gonullu became Trends Pro Members


      👥 Mehmet Gonullu and Chris Vara unlocked 1:1 Founder Intros by joining daily standups


      📈 Maciej Cupial reached $4,000 MRR with Calendesk


      🥇 Fausto Sá Teles’ project was selected as a finalist in No Code Weekend


      🎬 Uwe Dreissigacker published a new video for BlogHandy


      🧠 Elena Vargas unlocked Trends.vc Masterminds by reaching a 30-day standup streak


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        🤖 AI Tools 🔧 Building an MVP 🎓 The School of Life


        This week’s Founder Finds includes:

        • The School of Life
        • A sales framework
        • 6 lessons for building an MVP
        • An AI powered podcasting tool
        • A collection of JS letter animations
        • A categorized list of the latest AI tools
        • And more…



        🪶 Remember This


        If I had more time I would have written a shorter letter.



        🤓 Fav Finds

        Tools, tweets and more from Trends Pro Members


        🎙️ Deciphr.ai shared by Sean Hua
        An AI powered tool that timestamps and summarizes your podcast transcript or audio file.


        🔤 Moving Letters shared by Yuyu
        A collection of letter animation code to create beautifully animated text in JavaScript.


        🤖 AI Tech Master List shared by Stewart Townsend
        A categorized list of the latest AI powered tools, models and applications.



        🔧 Try This

        6 Lessons for Building an MVP

        Tips on how to get started and build an MVP from KP. Host of the Build in Public Podcast.



        🌟 Founder of the Week

        Stanislav Bodiagin

        “Trends Pro Masterminds help me find new ideas, support and stay motivated. It’s inspiring to be around founders who are doing what I dream of.”


        Stanislav is building ExpertVill.com. A platform for hosting courses with a built-in funnel. He is also a member of Trends Mastermind #0004.


        What’s your most important habit?
        To not take up tasks immediately. 

        Instead I write it down and place it into a queue. Which helps me to stay focused.


        What are you reading right now?
        SPIN Selling by Neil Rackham

        I consider sales to be an important skill for entrepreneurs. I recommend the book to those who have not worked in sales before and need a framework.


        What product or service do you wish existed?
        A service that would help to sell through DM. 

        It should help filter information and generate relevant questions at each stage.


        What product are you obsessively using right now?
        I use a Pomodoro timer to be more productive.


        What are you bullish on?
        I believe that artificial intelligence will replace low-skilled human labor in the digital world. Like machines once did in manufacturing.


        What’s your favorite Trends Report?
        🧪 Conversion Rate Optimization

        I love everything about business mathematics and funnels.



        👀 Watch This

        The School of Life

        This came up in a recent mastermind as someone made a “Request for Product” for a way to learn life skills. I shared The School of Life which teaches us about relationships, money, stress, anxiety, aging and more. The important things that you were never taught in school.



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        🆕 Dana R and Bernardt J. Vogel became Trends Pro Members


        👥 Jayant Rao and James Renouf unlocked 1:1 Founder Intros by joining daily standups


        📰 Mark Moore relaunched his weekly digest of Product Hunt products


        📷 Fausto Sá Teles shipped his first No-Code product


        🎙️ Simon Daley launched Bootstrapper Podcast on Product Hunt


        🌴 Fausto Sá Teles’ tweet went viral


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          🚀 Growth Strategies ⚗️ The Science of Memes 🔴 Red Teams


          This week’s Founder Finds includes:

          • Seeking critical feedback
          • Newsletter sponsors statistics
          • A study guide for visual design in UX
          • How stories and symbols are used to program us
          • A list of the most often recommended books on Reddit
          • And more…



          🪶 Remember This


          Perfect is a myth.



          🤓 Fav Finds

          Tools, tweets and more from Trends Pro Members


          💌 Newsletter Sponsors Statistics shared by Breno Ferreira
          An overview of brands buying ads and sponsorships in newsletters.


          👩‍🎨 Visual Design in UX: Study Guide shared by davidacreates
          A collection of articles and videos to learn about visual design in UX.


          📚 Reddit Reads shared by Kevin Deol
          A list of the most often recommended books on Reddit, categorized by subreddit.



          🔧 Try This

          Red Team

          Feedback is a gift. You can sharpen your ideas and avoid blindspots by seeking critical feedback. I affix requests for feedback with “Be as blunt as possible.” 

          This gives my friends a chance to be completely honest and helps me build better products. Expose yourself to short-term discomfort for long-term gain.



          🌟 Founder of the Week

          Yuyu Salim

          “Trends Pro keeps me accountable and it’s very comforting to be surrounded by like-minded people in the community.“


          Yuyu is building ClinicGeek. A healthcare listing service that helps you find the right healthcare professional for your needs. He has also joined more than 550 daily standups.


          What’s your most important habit?
          Reading


          What are you reading right now?
          How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie

          This quote comes across my mind from time to time: “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together”.

          Communication and building relationships are 2 non-technical aspects that I hope to improve.


          What product or service do you wish existed?
          Competitor SEO Analysis. 

          A good SEO tool is expensive and sometimes you just need a one-time use to validate your idea.


          What product are you obsessively using right now?
          Copy.ai 

          I’m using it to improve copy and publish new articles for ClinicGeek


          What are you bullish on?
          AI-Generated Art

          It opens up new opportunities for non-creative people to start creating their own art.


          What’s your favorite Trends Report?
          🧰 Side Project Marketing

          I like the idea of building niche/small products to market your main product. It helps you validate new ideas at the same time.



          📘 Read This

          Virus of the Mind

          Bad book cover. Great book. 

          I came across this while researching a meme marketing report (that’s still unreleased). It covers how stories and symbols are used to program us. This is what I call a “long-tail book.” It’s insane to think about how undiscovered it is.



          🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins

          🆕 Sammy Villarreal, Mark Moore and Aurélien Schvartz became Trends Pro Members


          👥 Mark Moore unlocked 1:1 Founder Intros by joining daily standups


          🚀 Yun’s newsletter highlighting growth strategies from Indie Founders hit 2,500 subscribers


          ⭐ Jwalant Patel launched a performance review course on Shadowing.ai


          🧲 Cameron McGrane posted a case study of creating and launching a lead magnet. This is a 📈 Trends Pro Exclusive.


          🎙️ Swapnil Puranik was featured on the SmartBranding.com podcast


          👩‍💼 Lwany got her first consulting client


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            Fractional Executives: Leadership-as-a-Service, CXOs, White-Label Solutions

            ​​“Hire people who are better than you are, then leave them to get on with it… Look for people who will aim for the remarkable, who will not settle for the routine.” —David Ogilvy

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            ❓ What You’ll Learn

            • How to scale your talents as a fractional executive?
            • How to reduce your time to hire? 
            • How to improve your lifestyle with flexible employment? 
            • How to find KPIs for fractional executives to focus on? 
            • How to save time and money with a fractional executive?


            💎 Why It Matters

            You can work with experienced executives on an as-needed basis.


            🔍 Problem

            You need expert help. But can’t justify the cost of hiring for a full-time role.  


            💡 Solution

            Find a fractional executive and only pay for what you need.


            🏁 Players

            Fractional Executives

            Hiring Platforms


            🔮 Predictions

            • Fractional executives will offer white-label solutions for common needs.


            ☁️ Opportunities

            • Reduce time to hire. Fractional executives can be hired quickly and save months of recruiting time.
              • MVP Health Care Inc. pivoted to telemedicine. They needed to go to market without waiting to find the “right” CMO candidate. Arlyn Davich joined as fractional CMO to develop their marketing strategy immediately. 
              • The CTO of A.T. Cross quit unexpectedly. They hired a fractional CTO to solve critical systems issues and improve projects left in disarray.
              • Joyce Ripianzi, CPA is a fractional CFO who joined a nonprofit in urgent need of a CFO. They realized they didn’t need a full-time CFO in the first place.
            • Become a fractional executive to improve your lifestyle with flexible employment.
            • Hire a fractional executive to automate workflows to save time and money.


            🏔️ Risks

            • Short-Term Mindset  • Make sure that your fractional executive optimizes for long-term success. Short-term incentives harm long-term success.
            • Bad Fit • The executive you hire might not be right for you or your business. You may need to try multiple executives before finding the ideal team member.
            • Team Buy-In • Your team needs to understand and accept the value of a fractional executive.


            🔑 Key Lessons

            • Learn from them. Fractional executives should be knowledgeable executives who have been in your shoes before. Solicit advice and input. 
            • Hire specialists. One advantage of working with fractional executives is that you can hire a wider breadth of team members.
            • Integrate your fractional executive with the rest of the team. An executive will have a stronger impact if they have visibility into how the team operates.


            🔥 Hot Takes

            • Fractional executives will accelerate the overemployment trend. Executives will overwork themselves to maximize income.
            • Fractional executives will create niche job titles. In-demand workers will be incentivized to commoditize and sell their best skill to as many businesses as possible.
            • Fractional executives will avoid office politics. They will be more focused on getting the job done with limited time.


            😠 Haters

            “How is a fractional executive better than hiring an agency?”
            Fractional executives take on more responsibility than an agency. They take full ownership and act as a point person for areas of your business like budget-setting, hiring, firing, and building processes. They should be held more accountable than an agency.

            “Fractional executives don’t have the same impact as a full-time employee.”
            It’s true that they cannot make the same time commitment. In many cases, fractional executives will have a greater impact on a per-hour basis. 

            “Fractional executives won’t understand my company as well as I do.”
            They aren’t supposed to. Fractional executives have specific skills which can be used in a variety of businesses. You and your full-time team members know your product inside and out. Specialists should be used to leverage that knowledge.

            “Isn’t this the same as hiring an interim executive?”
            No. Interim executives are hired on a full-time but temporary basis to effect immediate change until permanent leadership is found. Fractional executives are part-time leaders who should be working toward the long-term success of your business.


            🔗 Links

            1. Examples of Fractional Executives • The tweet behind this report. 
            2. How a Fractional Chief Operating Officer Can Help Your Business Grow Sustainably • A guide to hiring and correctly utilizing a fractional COO.
            3. What Makes Fractional CIO Engagements in SMEs Successful? – A Research Framework • Academic research on analyzing the success of a fractional CIO.


            📁 Related Reports

            • Remote Work • Remote work is accelerating the fractional executive trend.
            • Consulting • A fractional executive is similar to but less engaged than a consultant.
            • Agencies • Many fractional executives transition to running agencies.
            • Productized Services • A fractional executive is an example of a productized service.
            • Personal Brands • Succeeding as a fractional executive requires the cultivation of a strong personal brand.


            🙏 Thanks

            Thanks to Tem, Stewart Townsend, Wit S., Swapnil Puranik, Yarty, Vikrant Duggal, Ron Immink, Maciej Cupial, and David Steinley.We had a great time jamming on this report.


            ✏️ Harry researched and wrote this report. Dru researched and edited this report.


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              Eric Chou

              “My experience has been great with Trends Pro. I have only missed one mastermind meetup in the last 6 months because I get a lot of value from talking to other mastermind members. I enjoy reading reports about topics that I did not know existed.”


              Eric is building Network Automation Nerds. A learning community where network engineers learn, help each other and get inspired. He is also a member of Trends Mastermind #0005.


              What’s your most important habit?
              Staying productive using the Pomodoro method: 25 minutes of focused work with 5-minute breaks.


              What are you reading right now?
              The Right It by Alberto Savoia


              What product are you obsessively using right now?
              For the past 2+ years, I have been wearing my Apple watch daily. I find it helpful in tracking my health habits and it’s good enough for me to ditch my phone in many instances.


              What are you bullish on?
              I am bullish on Education Technologies. 

              The value proposition is straightforward and most people want to be better at something. So the market risk is lower. This allows us to focus on minimizing product risk i.e. ensuring that the product delivers what’s promised.  


              What are you bearish on?
              I am bearish on manual computer work. For example, command-line-based network management or human-based monitoring systems. I think it is obvious that most of this manual work will be replaced by automation.


              What’s your favorite Trends Report?
              🔑 Token-Gated Communities

              It’s something that I have always wanted to explore but found it difficult to narrow the scope. This report saved me lots of research time.


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              I’ve been slow-mading for nearly 2 years. Someone recently asked why. The shortest truth is that I do hard things to grow. Jessica Nabongo is the first black woman to visit all countries. Each book chapter covers one country and her experience there. It’s a fun read.



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                Directories: No-Code, Monetization, Curation

                ​​“Lists are a form of power.” — A.S. Byatt

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                ❓ What You’ll Learn

                • How to build directories quickly with no-code and low-code tools?
                • How to use directories to build communities?
                • How to create proprietary metrics to enrich directories?
                • How to monetize your directory?
                • How to use directories to attract customers?
                • How to crowdsource content?
                • How defensible are directories?


                💎 Why It Matters

                Directories save users time and help you build a defensible business. 


                🔍 Problem

                Finding useful information can be messy, time-consuming and inaccurate.   


                💡 Solution

                Directories help you sift through noise to find useful information.


                🏁 Players

                Directories 

                Directory Tools 

                • Webflow • No-code website builder
                • Notion • Build and share tables
                • Airtable • Build and export databases
                • WordPress • Open-source content management platform
                • Ghost • Publishing platform


                🔮 Predictions

                • Directories will be quickly built in response to world events with no-code and low-code tools.
                  • The city of Los Angeles used low-code to build an online application for COVID-19 testing within 72 hours. 
                  • Caspio provides a free no-code development to help Ukraine.
                • Online communities will build their own directories as lead magnets.
                  • No Code MBA accesses communities within its community.
                  • r/FindaReddit has a directory for finding subreddits.
                  • IMDB lets you create lists within its site. 


                ☁️ Opportunities

                • Welcome user-generated content. Crowdsourcing helps you leverage the time and knowledge of others to build directories.
                  • Pexels lets you upload and find free stock photos. 
                  • Yelp lets you create and manage a free listing for your business. 
                  • HubSpot lets your business join its directory. 
                  • Luc Meijer asks his Twitter followers for no-code resources. 
                  • Jessica Gore asks her Twitter followers for resources to help IP attorneys, students, and professors. 
                  • Jessie van Breugel asks his followers on Twitter who he should talk to about online marketing, paid ads, and SEO. 


                🏔️ Risks

                • Chicken or the Egg • If your directory relies on user-generated content, you’ll need to find a way to get your first contributions. 
                • Spam •  Letting users post content opens you up to the risk of low-quality content.
                • Market Risk • Avoid building a directory that no one cares about. Do keyword research to find patterns in searches.


                🔑 Key Lessons

                • User-generated content with quality controls is a reliable way to source content. 
                • Long-tail keywords lead to higher conversions than generic keywords and pages. 
                • You can use directories as a marketing tool for a related product.
                • It’s easier than ever to create your own directory using no-code tools. Alex Friedman built and sold FounderGigs using Airtable and Softr.  


                🔥 Hot Takes

                • Directories don’t have to look great. They need to provide valuable information. See Craigslist.  
                • Piggyback on existing directories to source content and improve the experience. Doing this saves time. 
                • No-code tools such as Airtable should be used as a quick-and-dirty way to validate your ideas. 


                😠 Haters

                “What’s defensible about a directory?”
                Very little unless you update content regularly, build proprietary metrics and a brand around your directory.

                “Can Google justify rebuilding NomadList? They have a much stronger network to market it.”
                No. They would rather route traffic to them. Google curates directories and profits from ad spend instead of creating directories. Unless the potential market is massive. 

                “Why would anyone want to use my directory?”
                If you pick a topic at random, they may not. Build a directory on a topic that you know well and leverage your expertise to ensure the directory provides real value. Lower market risk by doing keyword research and filling a known gap in available information. 

                “It feels like all the good ideas have already been done. What should I make a directory for?”
                Build a directory for the thing you know best. Even if a directory already exists for something, you could curate an entirely different set of resources. Niche directories are on the rise. Try building something for your local community.


                🔗 Links

                1. Looking for good examples of directories • The tweet behind this report. 
                2. How to Find Backlinks (For Any Website) • Blog post from Semrush.
                3. How to Launch a Product With No Money and No Customers • A post on Indie Hackers.


                📁 Related Reports


                🙏 Thanks

                Thanks to Soma Mandel, Camille Cocaud, Darren Travel, Yarty, Peter Duffy, Uwe Dreissigacker, Vishal Srivastava, Krish, Stewart Townsend, Lu, Daniel Berggren, Natwar Maheshwari, Katt Risen, Stephanie H., Lola Ojabowale, and Yun. We had a great time jamming on this report.


                ✏️ Harry researched and wrote this report. Dru researched and edited this report.


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                  📈 Advanced Growth Tactics ⚙️ Building Trends.vc 🤩 Personal Brands


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                  Michael is building michaelpa.com. MPA Creative houses my art gallery business, a music production house, course creation, and corporate coaching. Also, the book series is leading the way and heading up the course creation. 


                  What’s your most important habit?
                  My most important habit is the way I make coffee and the time I take to do it every morning.

                  It’s an event, from the measuring of the beans to the grind to the tamp, and finally to the pulling of those shots of espresso.

                  This happens every day twice. Once at the very beginning of my day, and once halfway through my day.

                  These moments are spaces for me to think, assess, plan, breathe, and then spend ten minutes focusing purely on the coffee. This helps me every day, and happens every day without fail.


                  What are you reading right now?
                  You Can’t Always Get What You Want: My Life with the Rolling Stones, the Grateful Dead and other wonderful Reprobates by Sam Cutler.

                  I’ve known Sam for years. I’ve never read his book. He hassled me about it the moment I landed back in Australia. So now I’m reading it, and it’s awesome. I regret not reading it sooner.


                  What product or service do you wish existed?
                  Faster planes. Concorde still wouldn’t be fast enough. The older I get the more I hate sitting in a metal tube for hours on end.


                  What product are you obsessively using right now?
                  I live by DoTalk. Go see and you’ll understand.


                  What’s your favorite Trends Report?
                  🤩 Personal Brands and 🙌 Audience-First Products

                  Love them both. Actually I love every damn report. But these two are constant gold mines for me.


                  What else?
                  It’s so much easier to criticize than it is to create.
                  Creating is putting yourself out into the world. Saying this is me.
                  Be proud of what you do.
                  Be proud of who you are.
                  Much love,
                  MPA



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                    Elom Maurice

                    “I love being part of Trends Pro. Being an entrepreneur can be lonely at times and it’s essential to find a community of people who are on a similar journey. 

                    When I joined at the height of Covid, I just wanted to be part of a supportive community but ended up gaining so much more. The accountability with daily standups helped me stay on track with building Delverise. I made connections. Some of which turned into business opportunities. But the best part of being in Trends Pro is the masterminds.

                    I get to chat every week with other founders, entrepreneurs, and leaders who are all building and working on awesome things to discuss our challenges and give each other feedback. Everyone is extremely helpful, shares freely and there’s a lot of useful feedback to guide you in the right direction.”


                    Elom is building Delverise. A growth marketing agency helping lean teams​ and startups scale revenue faster with holistic growth solutions. He is also a member of Trends Mastermind #0002.


                    What are you bullish on?
                    Communal living. 

                    Humans are social creatures who crave community. Yet a combination of modern technologies and culture seems to cause more isolation. I believe communal living will become popular with shared living spaces/resources/childcare/amenities/costs and more. We will modernize tribal communities of the past.


                    What are you bearish on?
                    Being in an office full-time for knowledge workers. 

                    No matter how much employers want their employees to be in the office full-time, I don’t think it’s going to happen. There was a seismic shift in how most people think about their relationship with work during the pandemic. Those who have tasted the flexibility of remote work are unlikely to go back to the old ways. Flexible companies will have the advantage. Inflexible companies will get eclipsed in time unless they adapt. Fully-remote and hybrid work is the future. 


                    What’s your most important habit?
                    Getting some sun/light exposure first thing after waking up. 

                    I picked up this habit from Dr. Andrew Huberman’s podcast. It has been a game-changer for me. 


                    What are you reading right now?
                    Zero to One by Peter Thiel. I wanted to dive into the fundamentals of building a startup and apply the same principles to Delverise.


                    What product or service do you wish existed?
                    Indexing, search and tagging for Twitter bookmarks. I save a lot of useful tweets that I don’t revisit because they get lost in a sea of other bookmarks.


                    What’s your favorite Trends Report?
                    💼 Agencies

                    It was applicable to me because I’m building an agency. This report shortened my learning curve. I go back to it often to uncover more gems.


                    Exclusive Deal: Elom is offering Trends.vc readers 30% off Growth Execution services. Email friends@delverise.com with the subject “Trends.vc Deal”.



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