Let's talk about Paid Newsletters 💌

What you’ll learn:

• How to build a moat?
• What are smart paywalls?
• How to build reader habits?
• How many subscribers do you need?
• How to get your first 100 subscribers?

And much more! Let's dive in: 💎 Why It Matters

People are willing to pay for quality content.

Let's talk about AI Image Generators 📸

What you’ll learn:

• What will AI image generation professionals do?
• How to launch NFT collections with AI image generators?
• How are content creation platforms using AI image generators?

And much more! Let's dive in: 💎 Why It Matters

Now anyone can create quality images.

Turn free users into promoters by tagging your product 🧵 @squarespace adds a “Made with Squarespace” to free website plans

Building in public?

Share more than revenue.

9 (non-revenue) metrics to share 👇 • Share Lessons

@cambaughn keeps a thread of mistakes

https://twitter.com/cambaughn/status/1492226969404018688

Founder Finds #0006 talked about...

🏦 One-Person Hedge Funds
🦄 12 Startups in 12 Months
💯 100 Sales Questions

Let's dive in 👇 🤓 Fav Find #1

🎙️ Market Analysis for Calm SaaS Businesses

An audience-first research process to build a sustainable SaaS business by @arvidkahl

Shared by @davidacreates

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Cohort-Based Courses. Everything you need to know:

🏁 29 Players
🔮 5 Predictions
☁️ 6 Opportunities
🏔️ 3 Risks
🔑 4 Key Lessons
🔥 3 Hot Takes

Let's dive in👇 💎 Why It Matters

Transformative education occurs when students feel valued, acknowledged and included in a community of like-minded learners.

We asked "What's the one book every founder should read at least once?"

We received 10s of responses.

Here are 9 books every founder needs to read: 1/

Company of One

by Paul Jarvis

Building in public is an unfair advantage for founders.

It helps with:

• Validating ideas
• Staying top-of-mind
• Getting fast feedback
• Building connections with stakeholders

Here are 11 people building in public + a lesson from each of them: Who?
@arvidkahl

What?
Sharing lessons on bootstrapping and building in public

Lesson?

https://twitter.com/arvidkahl/status/1535680796106838016

🔄 Let's talk about B2B SaaS

What you'll learn:

• What are growth systems?
• How to presell to validate demand?
• How to index into existing markets?
• How will open-source SaaS impact B2B SaaS?
• How SaaS analytics can help you boost revenue?

Let's dive in👇 💎 Why It Matters

B2B SaaS gives you a simple, secure and accessible way to solve business problems.

Let's talk about Curation as a Service ⛏️

What you'll learn:

• What’s curated commerce?
• What’s programmatic curation?
• What are community curation platforms?
• How to build directories with no-code tools?

And much more! Let's dive in: 💎 Why It Matters

You need help finding signal in noise.

Build in Public 101. Everything you need to know:

🏁 14 Players
🔮 2 Predictions
☁️ 4 Opportunities
🏔️ 3 Risks
🔑 3 Key Lessons
🔥 2 Hot takes

Let's dive in👇 💎 Why It Matters

Building in public helps you:

• Validate ideas
• Stay top-of-mind
• Get fast feedback
• Build connections with stakeholders

What is the FIRE Movement?

Can it be achieved?
Or is it just a fad?

Let's settle the doubts.

🔥 FIRE Movement: Everything you need to know 👇 🔍 Problem

We spend most of our lives working with hopes to reach financial independence in our 60s.

We may be financially wealthy but time poor by then.

State of the Creator Economy

• Why It Matters
• Problem and Solution
• Players
• Predictions
• Opportunities
• Risks
• Key Lessons
• Haters

Let's dive in 👇 💎 Why It Matters

The ability to create and distribute work is being democratized.

Teams are shrinking. Creators are capturing more value.

Everything you need to know about NFTs:

🏁 19 Players
🔮 6 Predictions
☁️ 5 Opportunities
🔑 4 Key Lessons

A thread 👇 💎 Why It Matters

NFTs transform art, governance, gaming, finance, charity, communities, logistics and more.

How to build a product that sells itself: 🔍 Problem

Sales-led models limit adoption.

A good personal brand gives you pricing power and opportunities.

A bad brand? Well…

These are 9 lessons learned from the best personal brands in the world: #1 - Show your work.

Nothing to show?

Document your learning process.

6 predictions on the future of Paid Communities 🔮: #1 - Fractionally-owned assets will be the basis of "paid" communities.

Nike MAG shareholders have more in common than those of utility companies.

The best tools to build your paid community.

Here's the list 👇 Tool ➞ @laylodotcom

How it helps ➞ Automatically notify fans when you drop new content, merch and events

Link ⤵ laylo.com

You waste time, money and effort by building before selling.

Solution?

Validate demand first. How? 👇 Use presales to reduce market risk.

If you’re selling to everyone, you’re selling to no one.

A thread on Micro-SaaS👇 💎 Why It Matters

Micro-SaaS helps you design your life without optimizing for investors and large teams.

It can also be a wedge into larger markets. Morphing into SaaS. Or even a platform. Big things start small.

Marketplaces are one of the most powerful business models.

Let's dig into problem, solutions, predictions and opportunities for 🎛️ Managed Marketplaces.

A thread 👇 🔍 Problem

Connecting buyers and sellers may not be enough for a transaction to take place.

Friction, distrust and uncertainty often remain.