This week’s Founder Finds includes:
- An in-depth guide to Midjourney
- How to overcome imposter syndrome
- A browser extension to automate repetitive tasks
- An unconventional approach to email list building
- The most important habits of successful founders
- Why you shouldn’t offer free things if you have nothing to sell
- And more…
🪶 Remember This
Serve customers you truly love.
🤓 Fav Finds
Tools, tweets and more from Trends Pro Members
🖼️ Midjourney Guide shared by Stewart Townsend
An in-depth guide to Midjourney with prompts, hacks and best practices
🤥 Overcoming Imposter Syndrome shared by Reme Ekoh
A Twitter thread with 6 techniques to combat imposter syndrome
🌐 Automa shared by Lwany
A browser extension to easily automate repetitive tasks
📘 Read This
Don’t Offer Free Stuff if You Have Nothing to Sell
Jakob Greenfeld has a 🌶️ hot take. He says offering free stuff before you have something to sell is a form of procrastination.
You can use the time you spend on free projects to validate paid business ideas. Paying users hold you accountable, are more engaged with your product and can be less demanding than free users.
🌟 Founder of the Week
“I’ve been a Trends Pro member for over 2 years and I love the community. It’s a community that cares about us and is always ready to help.“
Vishal is building a done-for-you warm email outreach service for SaaS, software development and marketing agencies to get US customers. He has also joined over 800 daily standups.
What’s your most important habit?
Doing 6 important things every day
What are you reading right now?
Buy Back Your Time by Dan Martell
I am actually re-reading it. Dan helps you figure out how to keep scaling your business without burning out.
What product or service do you wish existed?
An affordable database with the coverage and quality of ZoomInfo with monthly subscription option.
What product are you obsessively using right now?
I love the LinkedIn Sales Navigator + HubSpot + lemlist sales outreach stack. I love the ease with which I can send personalized campaigns with just one click.
What are you bullish on?
I am bullish on outsourced data categorization and organization services. Businesses need to classify and organize their data to make GPT-4 and ChatGPT work for their specific needs.
What are you bearish on?
Content writing services because the AI writers are making it super easy for anyone to write. Only creative writers with deep domain knowledge will survive this challenge.
What’s your favorite Trends Report?
🔢 Data as a Service
It shows that you can build a scalable business just by harnessing your knowledge.
👀 Watch This
Most Important Habits Of Successful Founders
Founders face setbacks caused by magical thinking and unforced errors. While setbacks are inevitable, you can lower their effects on your business and life.
Here’s a list of best practices on how to prepare for, deal with and recover from setbacks:
- Audit Your Life: Sleep, eat and exercise well.
- Expectation Setting: Do not set unreal expectations.
- Fatal Punches: Know when to step back, pivot and move on.
🔧 Try This
An Unconventional Approach to Email List Building
This guide will help you build an email list of people that care about you and your product.
Learn how to find, build and sell to your ideal customers.
🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins
👥 Ruben A. Ramirez, Anna Dzehilevich, Alex Espinoza, Ivan Malopinsky, Abhishek Kumar and Abeiene Nejar unlocked 1:1 Founder Intros by joining daily standups
🥾 Mac Martine launched The SaaS Bootstrapper
📈 Stephanie Hekker’s The Crowd List reached 500+ subscribers
👨💻 Benhur Desta wrote about his experience at ETHDenver
🥇 Milly Tamati’s Generalist World was a finalist of a startup competition
🤖 Fausto Sá Teles crossed 100 subscribers for the IndieAI Newsletter
🍎 Matt Spear built an icon pack for iOS developers
🧠 Rachel Smith, Gregory Cronie and Yogesh Muthreja unlocked Trends.vc Masterminds by reaching 10-day standup streaks
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