This week’s Founder Finds includes:
⚡ AI cost optimization
🔮 How to run a premortem
📁 An AI workspace tutorial
💸 AI-powered solopreneurs
♟️ A guide to counter-positioning
➡️ And more…
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Slow progress is a million times better than no progress.
🤓 Fav Finds
Tools, tweets and more from Trends Pro Members
💸 The Age of the Solopreneur shared by Elia Zane
A report on the rapid growth of solo businesses in the AI era
⚡ How to Scale AI Without Scaling Costs? shared by Eddie Forson
A post on reducing AI costs through smarter infrastructure
📁 AI Workspace Tutorial shared by Kieran Ball
A video on organizing project folders for better agent performance
🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins
🔗 Dru Riley wrote Your Habits Are Only as Strong as Your Worst Day, on the cost of a single target
🛠️ Jason A Erickson launched the waitlist for Project Machine
🧩 Matt Spear launched the Kosu Chrome extension
⚛️ Elie Steinbock launched Atom Eve
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Why Can’t Incumbents Copy You (Even When They Obviously Should)?
The incumbents don’t crush you because copying you would tank their business and make them look foolish for ever doubting you.
- Attack the incumbent’s business model. Vanguard beat mutual funds with lower fees.
- Trap the incumbent in a bad choice. Copying you means killing their margins and admitting they misjudged the market.
- Anchor your model to a real customer need. Counter-positioning only works when you deliver more value, not just a different one.
🛠️ Tools of the Week
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💵 StockDrifts — Visual stock research that builds conviction fast
🔧 Try This
What 15-Minute Exercise Saves Big Decisions?
Psychologist Gary Klein has a wording trick that gets risks out of a room where no one feels safe enough to mention them.
- Flip the question from “what could go wrong?” to “assume this failed, why?“. The past tense makes it safer to name real problems.
- Write every reason for 2 minutes straight. Silly, cynical, obvious, uncomfortable. Then pick the 3 most damaging and own them.
- Run it before any decision you have to live with: hire, launch, contract, budget.
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