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3. So, who can help you with this? For example, an AI assistant specifically developed for founders who are starting to sell their products themselves. This in itself is awesome! Plus, it gets you thinking about what other products you could develop following the same logic: https://fastfounder.ru/kto-pomozhet-faunderu-prodavat-svoj-produkt/

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Idea of the Day: Here’s Who Can Help a Founder Sell Their Product! 1. Professional salespeople that you hire? No! You should be the one to start selling your product yourself. That’s because receiving or not receiving money is the only honest feedback you can get from customers. This feedback not only helps you improve your sales scripts but also your product. It turns out that the most effective customer development is sales 😉 2. And these sales need to be organized in a very specific way—where you’re not just selling but also studying your customer at the same time. That’s why the abundance of AI sales assistants available today won’t help you. They’re designed for salespeople to strictly follow pre-set scripts. But you still need to create those scripts—and you need to do it in the context of real sales.

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Idea of the Day: Sell Platforms Instead of Tools 1. There are now so many AI tools out there that startups are beginning to get creative, inventing exotic tools to solve niche problems. But the big money isn’t in the exotic—it’s in the everyday stuff 😉 Take search engine optimization (SEO), for example. 2. Generating text using AI is no longer an issue. So, it might seem that AI-powered SEO has already been solved. However, today’s example of a startup that’s actively raising investments shows that this isn’t the case! And that’s because this startup isn’t building a tool—it’s building a platform for SEO. 3. Companies don’t want to buy tools; they want to buy platforms. If you understand the difference, you can start creating sought-after AI platforms in any field where companies have already started using AI tools. Here’s the difference: https://fastfounder.ru/prodavaj-platformy-vmesto-instrumentov/

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Idea of the Day: Many Small Ones Always Make a Market 1. Nowadays, almost everyone is an influencer, posting content on social media or even their own blog. But since the vast majority of these influencers have few or very few followers, it’s hard to consider them a market. And that’s a big mistake! 2. Because a large number of people with similar needs is always a market. You just need to find what you can sell to them 😉 For example, every small influencer wants to grow their audience but can’t afford to pay the usual rates for advertising. So, these people need different platforms with different mechanics at different price points to achieve the same goals. 3. Here’s a platform that could be considered the first step in this direction. And if you take this idea even further, you could create a highly sought-after product for small influencers—of which, by the way, there are already 65 million: https://fastfounder.ru/mnogo-malenkih-jeto-vsegda-rynok/

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Idea of the Day: Switch to “Founder Mode” 1. You’re always busy, and so are the members of your team. But why does your startup seem to be stuck, rather than making leaps forward? It’s because most of the time, you’re all dealing with routine tasks, rather than focusing on strategic challenges. 2. However, to fix this, you first need to understand how your work time—and that of your team—is distributed. What is it really being spent on, and what type of tasks is that time dedicated to? This platform will help you switch to “Founder Mode”—but not with empty slogans 😉 3. Instead, it does so through strict tracking and control, as the platform’s AI system will analyze how much time each team member spends on strategic tasks. And what can be measured can be managed! Here’s what “Founder Mode” is all about: https://fastfounder.ru/perejdi-v-rezhim-osnovatelja/ Let me know if you’d like to refine this further or need any specific changes!

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Idea of the Day: Flop or Fantastic? 1. Billion-dollar startups are built on global markets! The best scenario for this is using "global by default" business models, which force you to create a global startup from the get-go—without excuses like "we decided to launch in our local market first" 😉. 2. Here’s one example of a "global by default" model for the massive travel industry. It’s not about the headache of organizing trips but about launching a marketplace with a potential audience of over 1 billion people. Although the startup operating on this model has so far gathered "only" 80,000 users. 3. Looking at the ratio of 80,000 to 1 billion, you might say it’s a flop because it has too few clients. Or you might say it’s fantastic because it has enormous growth potential 😉. Investors seem to believe the latter, having already poured $50 million into this model: https://fastfounder.ru/hrenovyj-ili-ohrenennyj/.

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3. Jokes aside, this millionaire's app works differently. However, the concept of meeting people through apps has become so hot recently that several other similar startups have also secured significant investments. The key is that these "Uber for friendship" apps only work in local areas where people can meet in person regularly. 4. This opens up opportunities for creating many local startups that operate using the same model. So, you can take these examples, replicate them, and develop them further: https://fastfounder.ru/uber-dlja-druzhby/

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Idea of the Day: Uber for Friendship 1. The founder of today's startup sold his previous business for $310 million. And what did this successful entrepreneur decide to focus on next? He created an app that makes meeting new friends as easy as hailing a taxi with Uber 😉. The funny thing is, what's new is often just a reinvention of the old. 2. This reminds me of an old joke about a woman who called a man from a dating service. The man arrived and just kept talking and talking. The woman eventually asked, "Isn't it time to move to the bedroom?" To which the man replied, "I think there was a mix-up at the office. You needed a 'terrorist in bed,' but they sent you a 'chatterbox confidant' instead" 😉.

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3. And they’re already appearing, so it’s worth taking a look at them to get inspiration for thinking in the right direction. Here are a couple of real examples that sparked an idea for me, though it’s still hypothetical. What ideas come to your mind when you see these examples? https://fastfounder.ru/tut-eshhjo-mozhno-pridumat-chto-to-svojo

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Idea of the Day: There’s Still Room to "Come Up with Something New" Here! 1. Do you want to "come up with something of your own"? 😉 But you probably don’t want to face the usual objections like "don’t reinvent the wheel" or "everything old has already been invented, and if it doesn’t exist, it means it doesn’t work." Well, here's an area where you can still come up with something new! 2. It’s in marketplaces where AI plays a significant role in the process — greatly expanding the potential audience or even acting as a third equal party alongside the customer and the provider. As AI is rapidly and deeply integrating into various aspects of our lives, these kinds of marketplaces are bound to emerge.

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Idea of the Day: Want to Sell? Let Them Try It 1. The most effective way to sell something is to let people try it. This isn't limited to software trial versions, which often come to mind for IT folks 😉. Sampling products is a whole industry worth $135 billion, run by companies that specialize in giving out trial products. 2. However, more sales are happening online today. This means product sampling is also moving from physical stores to the online world. In other words, IT specialists can now start grabbing a slice of this massive pie, which is still growing 😉. 3. Brands are already accustomed to spending money on this, so all they need is a new way to keep doing it—online. Here’s how platforms for this should work: https://fastfounder.ru/hochesh-prodat-daj-poprobovat/

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4. The startup’s business model is also very interesting. Here's how it works: https://fastfounder.ru/iz-it-v-offlajn-a-pochemu-net/

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Idea of the Day: From IT to Offline... Why Not? 1. There was a guy who once created an online platform for learning programming, which he sold for $100 million. Two years ago, he started a new venture—but this time in the offline space. This means he's likely aiming to earn at least as much as before 😉 and that seems to be turning into reality. 2. Over the past year, the revenue of his startup has grown fourfold in a market worth $15 billion, which is expected to grow by one and a half to two times in the coming years. And he hasn’t opened any physical locations, something that often deters online entrepreneurs from entering the offline market. 3. Most of you are IT specialists. Like many other founders, you're focused on the online space—making it a highly competitive area. However, offline is still a vast market. And since it's more conservative, there are huge opportunities for applying new digital technologies and innovative business thinking.

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Idea of the Day: Is It Possible to Combine Independence and Stability? Yes! More and more people want to work "for themselves." But they fall into two categories: "startup founders" want to create their own company, while "freelancers" just want to work peacefully. Simply put, startup founders want to enter the corporate world, while freelancers want to leave it. 😉 However, freelancers would still like to have stability and other perks that company employees enjoy. This seems like a contradiction. And indeed, it is — but it turns out, it can be resolved with this kind of business model! The catch is that any business model that resolves contradictions is destined for success. 😉 Considering that the freelancer market is huge and growing, there’s great potential to profit by replicating this model. So let’s break it down: https://fastfounder.ru/mozhno-li-sovmestit-nezavisimost-i-stabilnost-da/

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Idea of the Day: You Don't Have to Be Too Smart to Sell Well 1. Sam Altman, the "father" of ChatGPT, claims that "AI will have superhuman persuasive abilities long before it becomes intelligent in the general human sense." 😉 2. This is a powerful shift that is driving the emergence of startups offering AI platforms to improve sales efficiency. The field is huge, and it's a good time to jump in. But with what exactly? 3. Here's a platform that fits well into traditional sales processes, doesn't seem too complex, and includes useful functionality borrowed from other platforms 😉. Looks like a great option for copying and further development: https://fastfounder.ru/chtoby-horosho-prodavat-slishkom-umnym-byt-neobjazatelno/

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4. But that’s a good thing! 😉 This means that one of you could take the same idea for your own product, develop it, and steer it in the right direction. 5. Take, for example, this startup that created a platform for sending emails to family and friends. At first glance, the idea seems a bit funny. However, the startup has been profitable since day one, with a profit margin of 60% and a churn rate of only 0.3%! 6. But "a company is like a big family," right? 😉 So, the same idea could be adapted for B2B, potentially generating orders of magnitude more money! Here’s why, and how it can be done: https://fastfounder.ru/horosho-chto-kompanija-jeto-bolshaja-semja/

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Investment is Not the Ultimate Goal 1. Strangely enough, raising investment is not necessarily a must for a startup. 😉 For example, Mailchimp didn’t raise a single penny in external funding throughout its history, yet in 2021, it was sold for an impressive $12 billion. 2. So, startups can still be interesting, even if they don’t raise investment. 😉 Starting today, I’ll also begin reviewing startups that post information about their launches on Product Hunt. Although the vast majority of them (so far?) haven’t raised any investments, and some don’t even plan to. 3. Yes, on average, the level of these startups is generally lower than those that have already secured investments. However, there are still interesting ideas here, and it’s clear that their founders haven’t yet fully realized the potential of the ideas they’re working on.

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Idea of the Day: How to Trust a Stranger? Great founders have a knack for coming up with unusual applications for ordinary technologies in their startups. Take, for example, the technology that uses AI to analyze a person’s voice and facial expressions. What can we come up with here? Off the top of my head, one obvious idea is assessing the sincerity of loan applicants’ answers when they come to a bank for a credit. Yes, that’s obvious, and it already exists. But what if we applied this technology to the process of selecting a freelancer for a job? By analogy, the immediate idea is to evaluate the freelancer’s sincerity when they talk about their skills and project deadlines. 😉 But no! There’s a more interesting and less obvious option that might even be more in demand. Here’s what it is: https://fastfounder.ru/kak-poverit-neznakomcu/

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3. But platforms for large companies must be scalable; otherwise, they’ll become too costly. AI can provide this scalability, making the creation of such platforms not only relevant but also technologically exciting. Here are some interesting platforms that can be developed in this area: https://fastfounder.ru/platforma-dlja-samogo-glavnogo-konkurentnogo-preimushhestva/

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Idea of the Day: A Platform for the Most Important Competitive Advantage 1. Anything can be copied. That’s why the key competitive advantage for a startup is the speed at which it generates and implements new ideas, keeping competitors constantly in a catching-up position. The main task for startups isn’t just competing with each other, but with established companies already in the market. 2. As a result, large companies are also forced to move faster to successfully compete with startups — and with other large companies that, following the example of startups, have already begun to accelerate. 😉 That's why big companies are suddenly and genuinely interested in platforms for speeding up corporate innovation!

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