Cindy Blackburn
436 posts
This is the best time to start a company in 30 years. I’ll summarize some of the best opportunities for you: 1. Buy distressed VC assets. Recap them. Offer team dividends going forward. Turn them into profit machines. 2. The media apocalypse is here. 20,000+ media employees have been LAID off in the last 12 months. From Condé Nast to Washington Post. How can you build a new media company that's profitable, AI-powered and community-first with that talent? 3. Apple Vision Pro App Store. 400,000 headsets will be sold in the next 12 months. it looks like a joke until it isnt. Create unique apps for that app store, be first. 4. The Figma-fication of everything. Turning software that was once single-player into multi-player is a generational opportunity. The future of software looks like Arc, Figma etc. 5. SaaS business model is dying. People are tired of Saas Subscriptions. One-time payments or pay-per-task SaaS is becoming normal. 6. Eldertech. Boomers are retiring. Probably one of the most underserved audiences. So much to be built for them. 7. Leverage creators, they are mispriced. Most creators can’t monetize beyond brand deals. They have distribution old media dreams of. Partner with them. Help them productize themselves and earn upside. 8. GPT Store. Fastest growing product of all time just launched an app store? Literally the next App Store. 9. Agents for everyone. You get an agent, and you get an agent and you get an agent. Who will be the Oprah of AI agents? 10. Productized services. How can you make a service like a product? Enable it by global workforce and AI. We built meetdispatch.com to build marketing assets for folks on a monthly basis. People pay us monthly fee to turn their market assets (landing pages, lead magnets, social assets) into revenue generating machines. Business does 7 figures overnight. 11. The unbundling of ChatGPT. ChatGPT won’t be everything to everyone. Just like how Craigslist, Reddit etc got unbundled, so will ChatGPT. ChatGPT for X. 12. Internet memberships are the new community. Digital communities that sell workshops, IRL events, software, deals etc. I created a limited membership with a monthly email with startup ideas, trends, private Q&A, free $99/month Skool sub, software deals and built $27k MRR in 3 months. skool.com/community-empi… 13. The rise of the detox economy. People are overloaded with screens and seed oils. Build businesses for this new detox economy 14. High Interest rates at 5-6% make companies want to increase profits, reduce costs. There’s a bunch of businesses to create to help them do it. 15. Almost half of gen-z doesn’t believe in religion. The rise of community-based brands. This is your opportunity to build things they feel connected to. 16. Happiness, fulfillment, stability, and safety are at all-time lows for gen-z relative to other generations. How can we build products, services to help them? 17. Google is being completely rewritten thanks to AI. Billions of visits up for grabs. People are calling it "SEO 2.0". Learn how to do it yourself (boringmarketing.com/freecourse or hire someone boringmarketing.com). These "boring" ways to get customers (like SEO) will only get more popular 18. Privacy-first startups. Yeah most people care more about convenience than anything, but there’s a growing privacy movement. The more people get hacked and phished, the more they care about their privacy and security. 19. TikTok stores. Today, I met an 18 year old guy who made $1m in the last 45 days from a TikTok store. He sourced the product, partnered with a creator, never raised $1 and was profitable on every purchase. I think you'll start seeing more of these stories with the rise of social selling, live (IG live/TikTok live) selling. 20. Multipreneurship. Portfolio of internet businesses instead of one internet business. Small mindset shift, big difference. Buy small profitable businesses to help scale it. Fund it via customers ideally. 21. The pop of the newsletter bubble. When the newsletter bubble pops (yes, when), it'll be an opportunity to scoop up interesting newsletters and aggregate and take them from a newsletter business to a business powered by a newsletter AND MANY MORE OPPORTUNITIES. This is just a few to get your creative juices flowing. After reading this, do you agree the opportunities right now are kinda mind blowing? Every business is made out of thin air. Just a good idea, the right timing and consistency. The right timing is now. It fires me up, does it fire you up? Do you agree? What am I missing? (in the next tweet ill give you some free resources for your journey)
New talk: Emotion AI: Separating Facts from Fiction. Thanks to the Institute for @Experiential_AI at @Northeastern for inviting me! #AI #experientialAI #emotion youtube.com/watch?v=MEuIGp…
Is anyone excited about my new book 🙂 On this page you can see some advance reviews of it, including from @BonnieGarmus Lessons of Chemistry author! and you can register for a free webinar:youcubed.org/math-ish/
🌈 This week on the School Leaders Project, we have @DrTempleGrandin joining us! She is the subject of HBO’s 5-time Emmy award-winning movie, a renowned autism advocate, and one of TIME Magazine's 100 most influential people. Dr. Grandin's journey is a testament to the power of early intervention and the potential of ALL learners. ➡ Tune in to the full episode now - lnkd.in/dkdAVaBm @TmpleGrandnSchl #earlyintervention #autism #neurodiversity #inclusiveclassrooms #inclusivecommunities #templegrandin #schoolleaders #schoolleadership #principals #schooladministration #autismspectrumdisorder #diversityandinclusion @TIME
What happens when @Toddle_edu's @MsCindyPYP brings together 3 brilliant minds (the "disciples of AI")? ✅ The Researcher @john_hattie ✅ The Philosopher @DylanWiliam ✅ The Technologist Aaran Hamilton You get the BEST edu-related discussion about #AI. youtube.com/watch?v=GeNJWA…
