Funds and Founders Weekly

Welcome to another issue of Funds and Founders Weekly, a weekly roundup of the latest episode that dropped and teasers of those yet to come (plus some other cool stuff that I came across).

My name is Abhinav and you probably know me as the host of the show (check it out here)

Whats on deck:

1. I did it, came to austin and recorded 8 new episodes in 72 hours

2. Consistency? How do you maintain this

3. E37 with Tomer Soran 

4. Events

5. Bookmarks that excite me

Last week I made it to austin, jam packed few days.

• Recorded 8 new episodes for the podcast, quite a few bangers, subscribe to the YouTube

• Caught up with a bunch of folks and past guests

• Visited some new coffee shops around town, I was going to make a coffee shop grading list with my recommendation, does anyone want this?

A couple weeks ago I talked about trying to consistent with my fitness journey. I missed one day of completing all my rings, I also cheated on one other day to lower my daily goals so that I could close them, is this fair?

Would love any tips that you have on staying consistent, I really like seeing the rings complete everyday but some days its so hard to reach the daily goal.

On Episode 37 I had Tomer Soran on the show and we talked a lot, there was so much yet to talk about I think I will need to get him on for an episode 2 sometime soon. Some of the things we covered.

• Transitioned from a 9-to-5 job to entrepreneurship

• Built a 7-figure e-commerce business

• Successfully launched a product on Kickstarter, understood how to build a supply chain for his product

• Problem solving led to him building and scaling a virtual staffing agency

• How he Balances multiple businesses and projects

Full episode links:

Youtube, Spotify, Apple, Everywhere Else

Or skip straight to the juicy parts:

Timestamps:

0:00 - Introduction and Tomer's background
3:06 - The importance of business models in entrepreneurship
7:52 - Transition from engineering to e-commerce
12:02 - Insights on private labeling and wholesale
18:42 - The birth of Sableflow and product development process
26:28 - Balancing business relationships with family and friends
31:16 - From concept to finished product: The Sableflow journey
37:05 - Kickstarter campaign strategies and lessons learned
42:39 - The transition to Effortless Hire and virtual staffing
46:10 - Common mistakes business owners make with virtual assistants
49:29 - Misconceptions about offshore hiring
52:27 - The importance of hiring before creating SOPs
55:24 - Three valuable resources for entrepreneurs
59:20 - Startup tech stack and tools
1:01:24 - Favorite entrepreneurial stories and lessons
1:06:13 - Closing thoughts and where to find tomer's businesses

Next up, bookmarks I saved this week worth reading

1. I hear a lot of stories about growth hacking, building in public. Im always torn on how much of it is realistic versus how much of it is painting the picture after the success is had. What are your thoughts.

2. Have you heard of comfy UI yet - its one of the tools everyone talks about as unheard of and unsaid, subreddit only has ~36k followers, have you heard of this? Its supposed to allow you to build really complex gen ai image workflows and achieve outputs that are realistic, I plan to learn this over the next month and will report back with my 80/20

3. Im visiting japan first week of december, and I came across this tweet about the difference in japan and usa. Any recommendations for my trip? i have not left the us for 2.5 years so am excited to get back to india and visit other coutnries before the year ends and notice the stark differences.

Thanks for reading my bookmarks

Events I am organizing or excited to attend.

1. Justin and I are hosting an investors only poker tournament, if you are an investor and would like to write a check into a startup with the winnings from the tournament do sign up

That’s all I have for this week

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-Abhinav