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Welcome to the Forward Thinking Roundup! This is a weekly email where I summarize everything there is to know in the Forward Thinking universe from the last week. In today’s newsletter, we’ll be reviewing:
Five potential venture scale products that launched last week on Product Hunt
Two posts I published
A look into the last week in the city!
Are you ready to roll? Ok, let’s get into it!
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Top 5 potential venture scale products from Product Hunt last week
Epihub - Shopify for tutoring, training, and online schools
Education interest is at an all time high, yet the tools haven’t caught up for people to manage their own schools
The branding of this product will speak to the average every day person, not a techie. This will likely be adopted faster than competitors due to that fact.
They are part of Y Combinator’s S20 batch, which has their demo day today!
AirHouse- All-in-one operations for modern ecommerce startups.
DTC startups are in vogue, so selling shovels is a great place to be as a business in that market
Because of the current DTC wave, I imagine there are plenty of gaps in the DTC and e-commerce world that never were relevant, that now are, due to scale of market.
They have a beautiful website, which means they understand branding. If they are selling to DTC companies, a prerequisite is to understand good branding.
Quell - Get fit punching your way through a fantasy world
This is an augmented reality platform, which always has room to move to virtual. Vs. a virtual reality platform might have a harder time moving to augmented.
This app is a small leap for consumers to make to take a step closer to VR, without it being too culturally unacceptable
The kickstarter speaks for itself. This thing has legs and I think will converge nicely with the growth of virtual and augmented reality markets slowly picking up steam
Honorable mentions
Callingly - With Callingly every lead gets a call within seconds, every result is tracked and your CRM is always up-to-date.
Replai - Use AI to instantly create highlights from any livestream.
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Luck, Serendipity, and (not so) Private Book Launches - A post about how luck plays into so much more than we realize, in business and in life
I Started A City - A post about a new project I’m working on called Forward Thinking City.
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Last week was an eventful week in Forward Thinking City. Mark Lutter from Charter Cities Institute kicked the week off with an AMA with our residents. Other AMAs last week included:
Jonathon Barkl, cofounder & CEO of AirGarage
Chandan Lodha, cofounder and COO of Cointracker
See a screenshot from our AMA with Mark:
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