Hey bootstrappers,

Happy Easter!

(Or Happy Sunday if you don’t celebrate it.)

Hard to believe a quarter of a year has passed already. You might be wondering where the time went, or setting goals for the second quarter. 

But what if you set your sights a little further ahead? Where do you see yourself a year from now? In five years? Ten? What would the world look like then? 👀

You needn’t be a prophet to profit (as it were), just know enough about your industry to see the next big thing before anyone else. 

You might have to wait a little for the world to catch up, but when it does, you'll make a ton of money while others rush to adapt. 

This week’s founders understood the need to predict trends and connect with their future selves. 

Become a futurologist like them and you, too, could earn your first million dollars (and more). 

- Chris Roper

Matt Sly wrote himself a letter when he was nine years old. Years later, that letter inspired a cathartic goal-setting experience for thousands and became a life-changing acquisition for Matt.

How a Letter to the Future Turned into a Life-Changing Acquisition

“The audience is not a specific market segment. Everybody thinks about their future – every human being, people all over the world. There are 18-year-olds and 80-year-olds in Argentina and the US. I was so surprised by the humanity of people.”

Peter Bray foresaw a simmering compliance issue for millions of global businesses. As regulators played catch up, he built the technology that saved website owners’ reputations.

This Founder Engineered a Way to Avoid Lawsuits and Lost Revenue But Had to Wait for the World to Catch Up

“Regulatory and legislative changes can affect products. One website change from one vendor introduces a huge organizational risk because suddenly that cookie consent banner is no longer there. All of these website changes are major compliance risks.”

Hoyin Cheung knew that businesses needed a better way to connect with customers and staff remotely, so he built a virtual events business to simulate the real thing.

This Playbook For Successful VR Events Brings in Seven Figures in MRR

“The remote work community back then would put on these annual events called Virtual Summits. Usually, they were a bunch of prerecorded videos on remote work topics. I thought ‘Why don’t we make this a live event and make people come into the space to connect?’”

“In almost twenty years in tech, I’ve worked for large brands and VC-backed startups tackling hard problems with amazing people. But nothing compares to my experience and the outcome of bootstrapping and selling FutureMe.”

 - Matt Sly, FutureMe

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