This week’s Founder Finds includes:
📊 An AI data analyst
🥶 A cold email guide
📨 A guide to newsletter growth
👨💻 A $20,000/m SaaS built with AI
🚀 What YCombinator teaches in 10 minutes
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A guide to growing a newsletter in 2025
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How to Build a Cold Email Growth System?
Learn how to build a scalable cold email system that brings in 5-10 new customers weekly.
- Build proper infrastructure with secondary domains and multiple mailboxes to protect email reputation
- Set up automated warmup systems and verification tools to ensure emails reach primary inboxes
- Keep deliverability high by warming up accounts, verifying addresses and following daily sending limits of 30 emails per mailbox
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Can You Learn YCombinator’s Startup Secrets in 10 Minutes?
Here’s everything YCombinator teaches its startups in 10 minutes:
- Build a strong founding team with at least 50% engineers who can survive on savings while building the product
- Create solutions for frequent daily problems rather than rare yearly ones and get an MVP to users within 2 months
- Focus relentlessly on growth through organic sharing or B2B referrals instead of paid ads, while keeping expenses minimal
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