This week’s Founder Finds includes:
- A prompt writing course
- 3 deep dive tech reports
- 16 types of network effects
- An interview with Courtland Allen
- An AI-powered slide deck generator
- The Epsilon Method by Jakob Greenfeld
- And more…
🪶 Remember This
Each problem is an opportunity in disguise.
🤓 Fav Finds
Tools, tweets and more from Trends Pro Members
📚 Learn Prompting shared by Fausto Sá Teles
A free course on how to talk to AI to get it to do what you want.
📱 Best of Tech 2022 Reports shared by Stewart Townsend
3 deep dive reports from CB Insights on the latest trends in tech this year.
📊 ChatBCG shared by Mehmet Gonullu
An AI tool to generate slide decks based on your prompts.
📘 Read This
Network effects occur when the value of your product grows as more people use it.
James Currier shares 16 types of network effects and how they work. Including tips on how to build and maintain the value of your product.
🌟 Founder of the Week
“I’ve been impressed & encouraged by the calibre of content and members in Trends Pro. Dru is an inspirational character whose dedication to providing value is evident throughout the features and continued evolution of the product & community.“
Marc is working on a ‘portfolio of small bets.’ He sees each launch as a milestone in skill and ability improvement. Marc aims to build a stand-out SaaS for recurring revenue. He’s currently building ThinkSee. A freemium service to create Stock Images using Artificial Intelligence. He is also a member of Trends Mastermind #0007.
What’s your most important habit?
Conscientiousness.
What are you reading right now?
The Wim Hof Method
Wim Hof explains his discovery and exploitation of the mental & physical consequences from habitual hyperventilation, breath holding and exposure to cold temperatures. I’d like to experience the rejuvenating benefits widely reported.
What product are you obsessively using right now?
Bubble.io
It’s a service that helps users build a ‘full-stack’ web application without code. I use it to create web apps (thinksee.ai, aisocialbio.com, notiontodo.so & acheck.co.uk) and embedded client projects. It has a steep learning curve, but resources and community support are broad. The product is well-funded with regular releases and impressive features.
What are you bullish on?
No-Code
The bridge between idea and execution has been built with a swathe of no-code tools and services emerging in recent years. An MVP can be realised in a matter of hours, giving an exciting, low cost, opportunity to validation for non-technical founders.
What’s your favorite Trends Report?
🔷 Mico-SaaS
I’m excited by the opportunities exposed by the availability of no-code tools. Being able to capitalise on niche expertise by translating it to a product or sharing a templated method is liberating for lots of people. Pivoting, scaling & transferring are all relatively frictionless routes too.
🔧 Try This
It’s hard to build, market and grow products that people have never seen before.
Instead of inventing something new, add a small but valuable change to something that already works.
Jakob Greenfeld says this is the most effective way to de-risk the launch of a new business.
👀 Watch This
Indie hacking is hard. You work more, earn less and feel tired all the time. Until you succeed.
Going on the journey alone makes it easier to quit. The goal is not to quit.
🏆 Trends Pro Member Wins
🆕 Sandeeip Chincholkar, Bartosz Boniecki, Daniel Johnson and Thomas Sorheim [Danielsen] became Trends Pro Members
👥 Bartosz Boniecki, Thomas Sorheim [Danielsen] and Mark Grimes unlocked 1:1 Founder Intros by joining daily standups
💡 Martin Slaney reached 200 signups for Product Prompts
👩💼 Mark Grimes ended the year supporting 8,701 women entrepreneurs in developing countries on Kiva
🌟 Elie Steinbock gave a talk on DAOs and NFTs
👨💻 Joel Pickin created AI Art Battle and Fausto Sá Teles created Wisebots for a hackathon
👀 Behind the Scenes
Here’s what we are up to…
🧠 Launched Mastermind #0008
⚙️ Upgraded the community to Circle 2.0
🧊 Built an Icebreaker Question Generator for Mastermind sessions
🧍 Moved to a 10-day standup streak to reach masterminds (Instead of 30 days)
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