This week’s Founder Finds includes:

⏲️ A productivity protocol
🎯 A book on focused action
🎨 Common design mistakes
🎙️ A search engine for podcasts
💰 The difference between wealth and money
➡️ And more…

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Success is a sum of simple disciplines, practiced every day.

🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins

🔎 Prabhjot Singh Lamba launched Does It Exist

💼 Sarim Khalid‘s job board was featured in the Micro Assets newsletter by Simon

🚀 Asad Dhamani launched Maker Resources on Product Hunt – check it out

⭐ Shushant Lakhyani revamped his personal site

👥 Annie Tai unlocked 1:1 Founder Intros by joining daily standups

🤓 Fav Finds

Tools, tweets and more from Trends Pro Members

💰 Wealth Is Not Money shared by Fausto Sá Teles
A blog post on distinguishing wealth (what we value) from money (a means to acquire it)

🎙️ DeepCast shared by Elia Zane
A podcast platform with search and summary features

🎯 The Art of Focus shared by Lwany
A book on using focused action to escape societal norms and redefine success

🐦 Tweet of the Week

🛠️ Tools of the Week

📊 Brand24 — Monitor online mentions

✔️ Taskade — Increase your productivity with AI

🎨 Decktopus AI — Use AI to make presentations

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Productivity Protocol

When you work for yourself, you decide what you should work on.

This is hard as there’s always more you can do.

But there are limits to how much you can work without burning out.

To boost your productivity, make a big list of tasks and pick 3 of them each morning.

When you get them done, consider this day a success.

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Speaking The Language of Your Customers

Design is understanding the needs, desires and expectations of those who you serve.

Arvid Kahl and Nick Groeneveld chat about talking to your customers, great UX and common design mistakes indie hackers make:

• How to boost retention with user-centric design?
• How to design with the user in mind?
• How to manage feature creep?

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🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins

📚 Bernardt J. Vogel launched a database of startup reading materials

🚀 Pierce P. launched Founder Stacks on Product Hunt – check it out

🦾 Eddie Forson released an AI Agent library for Python

🏷️ Simon launched a domain value estimator

📈 Maciej Cupial reached $14,000 MRR with Calendesk

✍️ Avy Leghziel wrote about chaotic problems

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🕰️ How to Manage Multiple Interests shared by Breno Ferreira
A video on balancing and making progress in multiple interests at the same time

🐦 Tweet of the Week

🛠️ Tools of the Week

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Your Customers Hate MVPs — Make a SLC Instead

Startup gurus say you should be embarrassed by the first version of your product.

But customers don’t want unfinished products that the creators are embarrassed by.

They want great products they can use now.

Make the first version of your product Simple, Loveable, and Complete.

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9 Images That Will Make You a Better Entrepreneur

Here are 9 images illustrating the founder’s journey:

• ⭐️ Northstar Metric: Pick one goal and focus all your effort on reaching it.
• 🧪 Test, Then Invest: Instead of working on something unknown, find what works fast.
• ⏰ Think NOW: Focus on making your first dollar now instead of dreaming about millions.

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The Great AI Job Shift: Winners, Losers and Adapters

“At the heart of capitalism is creative destruction.”  — Joseph A. Schumpeter

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⭐ Why does the impact of AI on jobs matter?

AI tools are “intelligent units” that go beyond task automation. They can create original work: market analysis, risk assessment, investment insights and more. This helps employees focus on more complex and creative aspects of their jobs.

But people are concerned about job displacement.

With so much uncertainty, we’re diving into how AI impacts the future of jobs.

🤖 What jobs are most affected by AI?

Customer Service Agents

AI chatbots can resolve standard customer queries and complaints without call center staff.

Digital Marketers

AI can create, manage and optimize marketing strategies involving social media, search engines, email, content creation and online advertising.

Salespeople

AI can manage customer inquiries through chatbots, analyze consumer behavior, qualify leads, do cold outreach and predict future buying trends to optimize sales strategies.

🚀 How can you survive the adoption of AI?

The first thing that you can do is use AI tools. This is the reality. If you rely on yourself only, you may lose to a colleague that knows how to use AI to do tasks faster and better than you.

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Customer Service Agents

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AI tools for customer service agents:

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• Yuma offers automated AI customer service for Shopify merchants.
• Balto offers real-time call guidance in customer support call centers.
• Kustomer is a customer service platform with AI chatbots and assistants.
  
  

Digital Marketers

Build strategies that resonate with audiences based on your domain expertise and cultural knowledge. Use consumer psychology to adapt your marketing efforts to world events and trending topics.

AI tools for digital marketers:

• Fullstory uses AI to analyze customer behaviour.
• Customers.ai offers in-depth visitor insights and remarketing.
• Albert.ai is an autonomous AI agent that builds and optimizes marketing campaigns.
• Surfer SEO uses AI to boost organic traffic, increase visibility and improve your rank in search results.
• Brand24 uses AI to track mentions across social media, news, blogs, videos, forums, podcasts, reviews and more.
  
  

Salespeople

Build strong relationships with customers by focusing on trust and a personal touch. Keep in touch with your clients after sales to solve problems and make sure they remain happy with your service. Clients are real people, not mere quotas.

AI tools for salespeople:

• Regie.ai is an all-in-one hub for AI sales outreach.
• Bland AI helps you build, test and scale AI phone agents.
• Reply.io sets up outreach sequences, handles prospect replies and books meetings.
• B2B Rocket offers AI agents that can dial your leads, engage them and book meetings.
• Oliv is an AI sales rep that does pre-meeting research, takes live notes and updates CRM after every call.
  
  

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🧱 Katt Risen launched Build The Keyword

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📊 Stewart Townsend gave a talk at the Chief Revenue Officer Summit

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🦾 AI Agent Design Patterns shared by Eddie Forson
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💬 Lunchclub shared by Elia Zane
An AI-powered networking platform for 1:1 video meetings

🐦 Tweet of the Week

🛠️ Tools of the Week

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Positive Friction

Positive friction is adding both value and effort to the user experience at the same time.

This is counterintuitive but it works:

• Boost retention by asking about personal goals and preferences.
• Boost paid conversions by showing detailed pricing plan comparisons.
• Boost user experience by adding more options to the core actions in your app.

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How to Get Out of Your Comfort Zone

Getting out of your comfort zone helps you form new connections, get support and reshape your perspective on business and life.

In this podcast episode, you’ll learn how to:

• Be yourself in a noisy world.
• Use the internet as a tool for personal growth.
• Find a supportive community for navigating life’s challenges.

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💡 7 development principles
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🍕 The 4 golden rules of effective meetings
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All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.

🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins

🕸️ Elia Zane launched All Inclusive SEO

🖼️ Simon acquired Thumbnails Pro

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⭐ Pierce P. featured Dru Riley on Founder Stacks

🌐 Yuyu wrote a Google Search Console guide

📅 Maciej Cupial reached 300 paying businesses with Calendesk

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🍕 Effective Meetings shared by M. Yousuf Faisal
4 golden rules for effective meetings by Jeff Bezos

💡 Development Principles shared by Elie Steinbock
7 principles to guide design and engineering decisions

🚀 Systeme.io shared by Uwe Dreissigacker
An all-in-one sales funnel platform

🐦 Tweet of the Week

🛠️ Tools of the Week

🔎 GummySearch — Discover new markets on Reddit

👨‍💻 CodePal — Generate code with AI

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Finding Fulfillment

“Carrots and sticks” are poor motivators.

People prefer (and deserve) to be driven by internal motivation, aligned with personal fulfillment.

Here’s what makes work fulfilling:

• Autonomy: You decide what to do and how to do it.
• Mastery: Great people want the opportunity to do great work.
• Purpose: We want to be a part of something bigger than ourselves.
• Joy: You love doing it. At the end of a long day of doing it, you still want to do it.

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8 Common Mind Games People Play

Here are 8 mind games that people play and how you can outsmart them:

• Pretend ignorance: Playing dumb to get away with actions.
• Projection: Criticizing others for things they do themselves as well.
• Negative humor: Making remarks disguised as jokes to make you feel insecure.

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🏃‍♂️ How to manage your dopamine levels
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If it’s hard – good. Fewer people will do it. You go do it.

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🦄 Bernardt J. Vogel wrote about VC trends

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💧 Yuyu made a water intake calculator

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An AI sales agent that can browse websites

🎞️ Wave.video shared by Caleb Hong
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🌐 Hugo shared by Aaron Nesser
The world’s fastest framework for building websites

🐦 Tweet of the Week

🛠️ Tools of the Week

📝 AudioPen — Convert voice notes into text

👨‍💻 CodePal — Generate code with AI

🖼️ Aragon AI — Use AI to do a photo shoot

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Tools to Manage Dopamine and Improve Motivation & Drive

Dopamine is linked to our sense of motivation.

Low dopamine makes us unmotivated, tired and unable to feel pleasure from what we do.

Here’s how you can manage dopamine levels to boost motivation:

• Get early morning sunlight for 10-30 minutes daily.
• Don’t stack too many dopamine sources to avoid a crash afterward.
• Don’t view bright lights between 10 p.m. and 4 a.m. This drastically lowers dopamine.

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Designing the Ideal Bootstrapped Business

Starting a business is hard.

Starting a bootstrapped business is harder.

You don’t want to set up a foundation that works against you.

A better approach is to work from your natural advantages, disadvantages, goals and needs.

Then use these to figure out your business model, pricing, market, product, approach, advertising and more.

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• How to boost adoption of your AI audio summarization tool?
• How to record and summarize phone calls on iOS?
• How to set up lifetime deals?
• Who offers pay-as-you-go pricing from $0.30 an hour?
• Who shares lessons learned while growing to 500 paying users?
• Who’s building AI audio summarization tools in public?
• How to build an MVP by using early feedback?
• How to improve the user onboarding experience?
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🔍 Problem

Unstructured ideas are hard to revisit, understand and share with others.

💡 Solution

AI voice summarization tools help you turn messy thoughts into actionable notes.

🏁 Players

AI Audio Summarization Tools

• AudioPen • Create meeting notes, memos, emails, articles and more
• AudioNotes • Turn voice notes into searchable clear text summaries using AI
• TalkNotes • Let AI transcribe, clean up and structure your voice notes
• Podsqueeze • Generate show transcripts, notes, titlesa and blog posts from podcast audio
• Fireflies.ai • Transcribe, summarize, search and analyze voice conversations
  
  

🗺️ Roadmap

1️⃣ Build Your App

• Build a mobile app to let users summarize calls on the go.
  • Wave records and summarizes calls on iOS.
  • Auro is an app for summarizing voice memos.
  • Audio Diary is a voice diary that summarizes your thoughts and goals.
• Build a Chrome extension to let users take voice notes without switching tabs.
  • Fireflies.ai has an extension with unlimited meeting summaries.
  • AudioPen has an extension for recording a voice note from any browser tab.
  • Notta has an extension for recording and transcribing audio played on any website.
• Offer pre-built integrations to help users add your tool to their workflows without code.
  • Otter integrates with Zoom, Google Teams and more.
  • AudioPen lets you send notes to other apps via Zapier.
  • AudioNotes integrates with Notion, WhatsApp and other tools.
    
    

2️⃣ Pick Your Monetization Strategy

• Use subscriptions to get predictable revenue.
  • Voices.ink costs up to $24.99 per month.
  • Talknotes has a launch offer at $59 per year.
  • Auro has premium plans for up to $99.99 per year.
• Offer a lifetime deal to get early revenue.
  • AudioPen had a lifetime deal for $120.
  • AudioNotes.ai has a limited lifetime deal for $129.
  • Speech To Note has 2 lifetime deals for $249 and $499.
• Charge usage-based pricing to help users minimize costs.
  • SummarAIze costs $15 per hour.
  • Speechmatics offers pay-as-you-go pricing from $0.3 an hour.
  • Notta lets you pick the number of seats and processing minutes on the Business plan.
    
    

3️⃣ Find Your First Customers

• Build in public to get early users and feedback.
  • Nico Jeannen shares marketing strategies for Talknotes.
  • Louis Pereira shares new AudioPen features, customer stories and more.
  • Tiago Ferreira shares lessons learned while growing Podsqueeze to 500 paying users.
• Offer beta access to get feedback.
  • BrieflyAI opened early access sign-ups.
  • Klarity opened a waiting list for early users.
  • Louis Pereira asked beta users for feedback on AudioPen. It now has a beta program for paid users with early access to new features.
• Build on top of ecosystems to lower market risk.
  • Klarity saves voice note summaries to Notion.
  • Voices.ink transcribes voice memos into Notion.
  • Summarize.One is a WhatsApp bot that summarizes voice notes.
  • SpeakMemo is a Telegram bot that summarizes voice messages.
    
    

4️⃣ Improve User Experience

• Offer product guides to onboard customers faster.
  • Momentum shares how to create call summaries.
  • Fathom shares how to set up and use its features.
  • Otter shares how to manage settings and features for your meetings.
• Let users train the model to boost the accuracy of summaries.
  • Speech To Note lets you train the model to understand specific terms.
  • AudioPen lets you add names and terms that you want AudioPen to spell correctly.
  • jamie lets you add custom words and acronyms to boost the accuracy of summaries.
• Auto-detect languages to boost accuracy.
  • Letterly auto-detects 100+ languages.
  • SpeakNotes auto-detects your language.
  • OneAudio can auto-detect input and output languages.
    
    

5️⃣ Boost Brand Awareness

• Launch on Product Hunt to boost visibility and get traffic.
  • Talknotes got “1st product of the day” with 965 upvotes.
  • Supernormal got “1st product of the day” with 506 upvotes.
  • AudioPen got “1st product of the day” with 1,657 upvotes. It grew to $73,000 in revenue in 2 months.
• Let users share notes to boost virality.
  • Talknotes lets you share your notes with others.
  • AudioNotes lets you share notes via public links.
  • AudioPen lets you share branded screenshots of notes.
• Use Programmatic SEO to address high-intent searches.
  • Sonix has pages for different use cases and target audiences.
  • Fireflies.ai has pages for sales, marketing, engineering and other use cases.
  • Podsqueeze has pages for generating show notes, posts, emails, transcripts and more.
    
    

6️⃣ Scale Your Business

• Offer an interactive demo to help prospects experience value faster.
  • Deepgram has an API playground.
  • AssemblyAI has a playground to test its API.
  • AudioPen lets you take a sample voice note in the browser.
• Build an affiliate program to monetize traffic.
  • Audionotes offers a 30% affiliate commission.
  • Podium offers a 30% commission on every new sale. 
  • Podsqueeze offers a 25% commission on every sale for 15 months.
• Use side project marketing to build brand awareness and generate leads.
  • Otter has a meeting cost calculator.
  • Notta has free tools for turning audio and videos to text.
  • Talknotes has free MP3-to-text and voice memo transcription tools.
  • SpeakNotes has 7 free tools for summarizing meetings, lectures and interviews.
    
    

😠 Haters

“AI audio summarization tools may harm our ability to listen actively.”
To build active listening skills, use AI audio summarization tools to take notes rather than replace a genuine conversation with your friends, teachers and colleagues.

“AI voice summarization tools may erode our writing skills.”
If you use such tools, regularly engage in traditional writing to keep the nuances of written language.

“AI audio summarization tools have weak moats.”
This is true for most AI tools. But who says every product must last long? If you can make years of revenue in months, seize the opportunity.

🔗 Links

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4. AI That Summarizes Audio For You • Overview of the AI audio summarization models and methods.
   
   

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• Will governments back regional AI giants?
• Why are there so few consumer builders in the AI ecosystem?
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🔍 Problem

Software engineers are hard to find, recruit and compensate.

Once you hire them, you risk knowledge being lost when they leave.

💡 Solution

AI software engineers can increasingly solve specific issues on their own.

While engineers focus on domain rules and high-level problems.

🗺️ Roadmap

1️⃣ Pick Your Niche

AI Coding Assistants

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  • Tabnine works with 15 code editors.
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• Train your own model to differentiate from competitors.
  • Tabnine is trained on open-source repositories.
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  • GitHub Copilot is trained on all languages from public repositories.
  • CodeWP offers AI chat and coding tools trained for WordPress creators.
    
    

3️⃣ Pick Your Monetization Strategy

• Charge per user to grow as your customers grow.
  • Codacy costs up to $18 per user/mo.
  • Tabnine costs up to $39 per user/mo.
  • AskCodi costs up to $29.99 per user/mo.
• Offer subscriptions to get predictable revenue.
  • Sweep costs $480 per month.
  • Replit AI costs $20 per month.
  • Fine costs up to $99 per month.
• Build a monetized open-source tool. Let customers self-host or pay for a managed solution.
  • Sweep has open-source and pro versions.
  • Refact has open-source and cloud versions.
  • CodeGeeX has open-source and paid enterprise versions.
    
    

4️⃣ Find Your First Customers

• Build a playground to help users experience value faster.
  • Tabby has a playground with a sample coding task.
  • Blackbox AI has a playground with pre-built coding prompts.
  • Codeium has a playground with Python, JavaScript, Go, C++ and Java.
• Share sample problems that your tool can solve. This helps customers understand your value better.
  • Sweep shares sample coding issues it can solve.
  • CodeWP shares AI code snippets and plugin examples.
  • Bito shares AI prompts for generating new code or fixing existing code.
• Build in public to get trust and early fans. Share challenges, milestones and product updates.
  • Shawn Wang is building smol.ai in public.
  • William Zeng and Kevin Lu are building Sweep in public.
  • Sandeep Pani and Naresh Ramesh are building Aide in public.
    
    

5️⃣ Improve User Experience

• Let users chat with the code. Make it easy to write and edit code with natural language.
  • Tabnine has an AI chat that can generate and document code.
  • Cursor lets you edit an entire method or class with a single prompt.
  • Replit Ghostwriter lets you generate and summarize your code via a chat.
  • GitHub Copilot lets you chat with your code to build new features and fix bugs.
• Offer personalized services to show commitment to your customer’s success.
  • Fine can build custom tools and integrations for your use cases.
  • Replit AI offers personalized onboarding to enterprise customers.
  • Codeium offers personalized onboarding and training for your organization.
  • Aide offers personalized onboarding and weekly office hours with the engineering team.
• Have a strong privacy policy to address concerns about code and know-how privacy.
  • Tabnine has a dedicated privacy page.
  • GitHub Copilot has a trust center with privacy and security policies.
  • Codacy shares security policies on infrastructure, data encryption and more.
    
    

6️⃣ Boost Brand Awareness

• Use programmatic SEO to target high-intent keywords.
  • AskCodi targets dozens of programming languages.
  • ZZZ Code AI targets dozens of code generator and explainer tool keywords.
  • CodePal has dozens of pages for the query “Code Generator for [Programming Language]”.
• Become a guest on interviews to boost your visibility.
  • Amar Goel shared Bito on the AI Chat podcast.
  • Eran Yahav talked about building Tabnine with Kyle Simpson.
  • Kevin Hou talked about building Codeium at the Syntax podcast.
  • Allan Mørch shares how he beat cancer and grew AskCodi to $5,000,000 ARR.
• Launch on ProductHunt to get more traffic.
  • Bito got “3rd product of the day” with 460 upvotes.
  • Fine got “2nd product of the day” with 737 upvotes.
  • Sourcery got “4th product of the day and week” with 1,036 upvotes.
    
    

7️⃣ Scale Your Business

• Use freemium to lower customer acquisition costs.
  • Codeium is free for individual users.
  • AskCodi has a free plan with access to its base model.
  • Replit AI has a free plan with limited access to AI features.
• Make your tool free for individual developers. Happy users will spread the word about you at work. This can lead to the adoption of your tool at the company level.
  • Fine is free for individuals and small companies.
  • Amazon CodeWhisperer is free for individual use.
  • Codeium offers unlimited AI usage for individual developers.
• Use side project marketing to generate leads. Target search intents for solving development tasks.
  • AI2sql has a free SQL formatter.
  • Codepal has dozens of tools for generating, analyzing and improving code.
  • aiXcoder has a code search engine that lets you search API use cases, GitHub repos, similar code and more.
    
    

🔗 Links

1. The world’s first AI software engineer • The thread behind this report.
2. Building a Report on AI Software Engineers • The tweet behind this report.
3. Can AI Replace Software Engineers? • Software engineers discuss Devin and how to future-proof your career.
4. How AI Code Generation Works • The benefits of AI code generation for developers.
   
   

🙏 Thanks

Thanks to Chris Beaumont and Stewart Townsend. We had a great time jamming on this report.

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

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📘 Read This

Gambler’s Fallacy

People think a random event is more or less likely to occur if it happened several times in the past.

This is the gambler’s fallacy.

Here’s 3 examples:

• A job seeker thinks they won’t find a job following a streak of job rejections.
• Fans think that the basketball player will miss the next shot after missing 5 shots in a row.
• Investors tend to hold onto stocks that fall and sell stocks that rise. Thinking that the stocks have been falling or rising long enough that the change in trends should occur soon.

It affects our decisions by adding an element of false certainty to events influenced by lots of factors, including randomness.

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How To Build a Value Ladder

The value ladder is a set of offerings that you provide to your customers.

Where value increases as the price increases.

Whether you’re selling physical products, digital products, software, services or coaching.

A value ladder will help you get repeat clients, attract new leads and boost the value of every sale.

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