This week’s Founder Finds includes:
⚙️ An n8n MCP server
📖 Storytelling in SaaS
🦾 An agentic AI crash course
🧠 How to get your brain to focus
🌴 6 principles of lifestyle businesses
➡️ And more…
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Do not cling to a mistake just because you spent a lot of time making it.
🤓 Fav Finds
Tools, tweets and more from Trends Pro Members
🦾 Agentic AI Crash Course shared by Alejandro Arango
A guide to learn agentic AI for real world applications
⚙️ n8n MCP shared by Elia Zane
An MCP server to build n8n workflows with AI
🧠 How to Get Your Brain to Focus shared by Jd Fiscus
A talk on harnessing focus for deeper work and more creativity
🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins
🧿 Dru Riley added weekly competitor summaries to HeadsUp
⚡ Ren Saguil is hosting a series of sales workshops on Maven
💬 Elie Steinbock was featured in an interview on 20i
📺 Alexandre Kantjas reached 30,000 subscribers on YouTube
🎨 Paul Martin made a video on the redesign of Bondex
📘 Read This
Why Do Most Founders End Up Working More, Not Less?
The secret to lifestyle businesses is building systems that work without you:
- Build simple products with no maintenance required
- Price strategically to avoid support nightmares (too low) and consultant dependency (too high)
- Choose uncrowded markets where you can dominate without constant competition crushing margins
🛠️ Tools of the Week
💲 Reply.io — Automate sales outreach
🎞️ Zubtitle — Edit social media videos fast
📊 Julius AI — Analyze your data with computational AI
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Why Are You Selling Features When Customers Buy Outcomes?
Most SaaS founders pitch “40% faster processing” and wonder why prospects don’t get excited.
Instead, use stories to close the gap between features and outcomes people actually want:
- Build a story bank with customer wins, personal struggles and company milestones. When people see themselves in your stories, they stop evaluating and start buying
- Tell three types of business stories: mission (why you started), vision (what success looks like) and milestones (what you’ve overcome)
- Show what’s at stake, what they want to learn, how you want them to feel and what they should do next
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