This week’s Founder Finds includes:
🎯 A goal setting guide
🏋️ A workout tracker app
🤝 How to negotiate with clients
✨ How to rebrand your company
0️⃣ What is zeroth principles thinking
⚡ The fastest way to validate a SaaS
🧰 Resources to learn entrepreneurship
➡️ And more…
🪶 Remember This
Don’t be afraid to give up good to go for great.
🤓 Fav Finds
Tools, tweets and more from Trends Pro Members
⚡ Fast SaaS Validation shared by Elie Steinbock
A short video on how to validate your idea fast
🧰 Techstars Entrepreneur’s Toolkit shared by Royce Johnson
Resources to learn the basics of entrepreneurship
0️⃣ Zeroth Principles Thinking shared by Prabhjot Singh Lamba
A video on challenging fundamental assumptions. Read more about it here
📘 Read This
Jay Clouse just rebranded his business and newsletter.
He dives deep into the rebranding process and its challenges:
- When to rebrand?
- What makes a good brand?
- How to find flaws in your current brand?
- How to lower the rebranding risks by talking to your audience?
🌟 Founder of the Week
“Trends Pro has been keeping me disciplined in updating my daily progress. As a founder, having an accountability group is quite important. It’s a whole different identity and mentality to be your own boss.“
Tony is building Mindreader. It helps salespeople in high-ticket industries (insurance, real estate, consulting) boost sales by 10-50% using their AI profiling system. Which was trained in the leading banks, insurance and real estate companies in Asia.
What’s your most important habit?
Taking notes. It helps me learn new things and remember important decisions I have already made. As a CTO, it helps me track my tasks across management, design and AI research.
What are you reading right now?
I’ve just read The Mom Test by Rob Fitzpatrick to learn how to talk to users and understand their needs. This book uncovered some poor Biz Dev practices that were causing zombie leads.
What product or service do you wish existed?
A device that could read our mind and generate images or videos to help others understand what we are talking about. It does sound quite apocalyptic though. This would rewrite so many social norms.
What product are you obsessively using right now?
Hevy to track my weights and exercises. It has a cool feature that lets me see when my friends track their workout. It is a good motivation to go to the gym more often.
What are you bullish on?
I’m bullish on my success as long as I keep iterating and getting better.
What are you bearish on?
I’m bearish on getting people to change. I focus on my life instead and let people do what they want. This is great for my inner peace.
What’s your favorite Trends Report?
🖍️ Chrome Extensions as I want to build one for Mindreader.
What else?
I’m happy to connect with founders in the sales or lead generation space.
I’m shipping 3 AI chatbot features this year. Let’s chat if this interests you!
Exclusive Deal: Tony if offering Trends.vc readers 75% off any Mindreader plan with the code “CRAZY75”.
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👀 Watch This
When Client Says “Your Price Is Too High”
Chris Do and Mo Ismail act out a role play scenario where Mo is the vendor and needs a video for $1,000. While Chris navigates this obstacle knowing his minimum level of engagement is $4,000.
🔧 Try This
How to Set Goals (Backed by Science)
Goals are a great source of satisfaction and purpose in our lives.
There are 2 types of goals:
- Specific goals • Lose 20 pounds of weight.
- General goals • Be a healthy human being.
Specific goals help you achieve tangible outcomes. General goals keep you motivated and honest.
You should balance specific and general goals to prevent negative outcomes from pursuing your dreams.
You don’t want to lose 20 pounds by living off pretzels and carrot juice for 1 year.
🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins
👥 Rishabh Singh, Mike Giannakopoulos and Aurélien Vasinis unlocked 1:1 Founder Intros by joining daily standups
✍️ Renae Gregoire launched a column on Forbes
🩺 Bernardt J. Vogel wrote about generative AI in healthcare
👨💻 Elie Steinbock launched the Open Source Explored newsletter
💡 Mehmet Gonullu launched the waitlist for Ventures Fabrika
💬 Maisha Cannon wrote about chatbots on Poe
💰 Abhishek Kumar signed $8,000 worth of market research projects and was invited to a podcast
🧠 Eren Suzer unlocked Trends.vc Masterminds by reaching a 30-day standup streak
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