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Here’s today’s edition of Founder’s Foresight - a newsletter where I pore through news, strategy resources and more and share them to help busy founders like you make the most of information online

💪 Daily Motivation

"What do you need to start a business? Three simple things: Know your product better than anyone, know your customer, and have a burning desire to succeed" - -Dave Thomas, founder of Wendy’s

🗞️ Founder News

GPTZero’s founders, still in their 20s, have a profitable AI detection startup, millions in the bank and a new $10M Series A: GPTZero offers a detection tool that helps identify whether a piece of content was AI generated. Founded by 24-year-old Edward Tian and 26-year-old Alex Cui, it has already grown into profitability in its first year and a half of life, generating millions in revenue.

Feather.so acquired for $250,000: Feather.so, a site that helps easily convert Notion pages to a blog in minutes has been acquired by Tibo (creator of Tweet Hunter).

📈 Strategy and Tactics

The Hidden Cost of Hypergrowth: The graveyard of startups is littered with companies that mistook hypergrowth for sustainable success. In this post, Scott Clary converses with Karl Alomar on the hidden cost of hypergrowth and going for intentional growth instead of reckless scaling.

How to Become Insanely Well-Connected: Chris Fralic is a world-class super-connector. Here's how the long-time First Round Partner has methodically built bonds spanning years and careers.

Should you be doing Founder Marketing? Yes, but how do you get started? Simple - post on LinkedIn every single day, in the morning hours where you live. But what to post?

1. Product Updates

2. Company Milestones

3. Industry News and Trends

4. Hiring Updates

5. Asking for Feedback

🛠️ Tools

OpinioAI s a research platform that uses AI to analyze data, evaluate creatives and synthesize new insights to help businesses better understand their customers, test and evaluate ideas to move faster to the market.

Roast My Design uses AI to analyze your website's design and provides scores for aesthetics, copywriting, UI design, and consistency. Get very specific, detailed recommendations on how to improve and elevate your web presence.

🙌 Leadership

A Team Exercise to Introduce New Best Practices: Team activities that incorporate learning and application make the organization better. One such team activity that has such an impact is the “Best Practices Slide” exercise.

8 ideas to level up your leadership in the next 5 minutes: Leadership is a superpower. Learn it and you can achieve just about anything. Matt Gray shares 8 ideas to level up your leadership in the next 5 minutes.

❓Trivia

Lawson is a convenience store that suddenly rose in popularity after a Instagram photo went viral in which it seemed as if _____ ____ is perched on top of one of its stores. The authorities have now put up a huge barrier to block the view of _____ ____ exasperated by crowds of badly behaved foreign tourists who flocked to this area. Identify this geographical entity (2 word answer)

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Previous question’s answer: Starbucks`