Hope you are enjoying a fab first week of summer! Here's what's new:

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• Beyond just being new and cool - Which Ai tools are actually worth it?
• The hard thing about HoldCos
• Ukrainian debt is gaining popularity as a hot emerging market investment
• YouTube announced a game changing A/B testing feature
• New Ai tools worth checking out, stuff you should know, and more...

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We want your opinion!

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Since the start of the year, thousands and thousands of Ai tools have flooded the web, and more coming out in droves every week.

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Some solve an obvious problem, some speed up productivity, some are so super niche most of us are left scratching our heads. But, either way, most have some kind of pricing structure.

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Our question to you is:

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What Ai tool(s) are you currently paying for that have had a profound and positive effect of your business or personal life?

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Hit reply and let us know and we'll share the findings next week!

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🗞️ BUSINESS & FINANCEY STUFF

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🤑 The Hard thing about HoldCos. An AMAZING interview on the Permanent Equity podcast featuring [investingio member] Bill D'Alessandro.
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Bill is about as talented as they come in the SMB space. From investment banking and PE, to SEO and Ecommerce branding, he can do it all. This episode goes quite deep into his decision to unwind his holdco and only focus on one singular brand.
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It's much more than pure logic though, it touches on personal fulfillment, the struggles with juggling multiple companies at once, and the benefits of only thinking on one thing.

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Highly recommended.

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🤑 Ukrainian debt is 🔥 - a highly attractive investment in emerging markets due to ummm, 'plot twists' faced by Russia. With massive returns and super optimistic growth prospects, investors are running to Ukraine's bonds and debt warrants.

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🤑 Go where the visas are! If you're location independent, or can be, here's a digest of all the countries offering visas for digital nomads.

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🤑 YouTube launching thumbnail A/B testing. "Test & Compare" is currently in beta but when it's fully released it’ll allow comparison of 3 different thumbnail images and results will be based on watch time....

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🤑 Adobe is so confident in Firefly its offering an indemnity clause that promises to pay the legal bill for any copyright claims related to its AI-generated works.

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🤑 BlackRock's spot Bitcoin ETF application has triggered the largest inflows to crypto in a year. Buuuut excessive control by traditional financial firms could spawn network deviation and manipulation.

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🤑 ​Amazon plans to enlist thousands of small businesses across the United States to deliver its packages by the end of the year. The program, called Amazon Hub Delivery, aims to expand the company's "last mile" network.

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🤑 Do you know how to properly read a CF statement? A cash flow statement is so so so important helping you assess a company's ability to generate cash, meet its financial obligations, and support future growth. Here's a quick thread on how to read a cash flow statement​

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🤑 We all know securities can be undervalued during bad times and overvalued during good times. Decline in CRE is huge, but is the current CRE market a massive opportunity?

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🖥️ Ai STUFF AND COOL TOOLS

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♦︎ You're gonna want to bookmark this one: Roic.ai - search for any company by name or ticker and get years of years of financial data. It makes those important metrics easy to find, including ROIC, return on equity, debt, FCF per share, and much more.

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♦︎ Alphawatch is another market research tool but this using Ai to source and simplify complicated data and can even provide opposing viewpoints.

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♦︎ Ai assisted Mini-Course Generator for repurposing content, monetizing with micro learning, even add some interactivity on your YouTube videos and get more engagement.

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♦︎ Narrative.bi takes your data (think Ads, GA4, etc) and creates actionable next steps.

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♦︎ Seems like Followr is coming in with a huge drop shortly to completely automate your social media from creation to scheduling to metrics.

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♦︎ Some unique branding and marketing possibilities with Controlnet - here's an explainer thread...Looks pretty slick!

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And here are a few of our creations (WARNING: highly addictive 😬)...

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⚡️ ICYMI - I know we keep saying this but it's true! Big time changes, are coming to the membership community this summer! I promise announcements are coming very soon!

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Great chats and threads from the Discord you may have missed…

• Community weighing in on Binance's counter offensive​
• Nigel looking for recommendations for an Ai tool to create a persona from existing content and train it to produce for that avatar
• Adrian looking for insight on creating incentive programs for in-house writers​
• A graph showing the huge drop in VC funds raised by crypto firms
• ​Stablecoin yields back in the conversation
• Do you still use Airbnb or are you back to hotels?

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In the forum...

• Last week some members took part in a chat with Travis - the conversation went from gold investing to crypto. Stay tuned as there will be another open call very soon.
• The Marketplace is updated every week with new curated online business acquisition deals - Saas, Websites, Apps, Agencies, & Ecom businesses.
• Periodically Travis will host a guest in a 'Fireside' chat - Members can access recordings of all our Fireside Chats anytime here.​

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