We track up-and-coming startup trends and explain how to pounce on them
We track up-and-coming startup trends and explain how to pounce on them
We're a team of analysts and entrepreneurs that obsessively track emerging industries. Each week we show you the white space in the market and how you can capitalize on it. Simply put, we work to discover market gaps so you can succeed.
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Trends provides in-depth reports, case studies, interviews with successful founders and more to help you spot market opportunities and take action.
- Proprietary insight: Our analysts scour the web, analyze thousands of data points, and interview expert entrepreneurs and leaders
- Concise and fast: Report summaries are deeply reported but easy to digest, and flavored with Hustle-signature voice.
- Discussions with thought leaders: We interview hundreds of CEOs, founders, executives, and thought leaders to craft our reports
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Case studies: Read one of the case studies that comes with each report and get under-the-hood insights into how different businesses work
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Actionable insights: Each report comes with a list of actionable next steps that can be taken to capitalize on each trend
Hey there grasshopper,
Sam here, CEO of The Hustle.
Since 2016, we've gathered thousands of participants to our annual Hustle Con event where the best non-technical founders share personal insights and practical advice on growing a startup.
This inspired us to build our daily email newsletter that has grown to over 1 million subscribers -- delivering the most impactful news from Silicon Valley to Wall Street.
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But... readers asked for more.
They wanted more than just our expert analysis of the news. They wanted actionable insights on how to capitalize on the information we're giving them.
And that, my dear friend, is where Trends comes in.
Our team spends thousands of hours analyzing data, digging through reports, and talking with sources to identify business opportunities you can pounce on.
Each week we send an exclusive email newsletter to Trend subscribers, compiling the business trends we've spotted in one easy-to-read report, filled with case studies, and actionable insights.
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SIGNALS
Node makes sustainable modular homes. The company is growing in popularity because its prefab homes are made with non-toxic materials and have energy-efficient systems. Backlinks to their website have skyrocketed this summer.
L-theanine is a compound found naturally in certain teas. It's a relaxant and supposed to help people fight anxiety and stress. Searches for L-theanine total about 65k monthly and have steadily increased over the last several years.
Access to our growing Signals database to spot early trends.
WEEKLY REPORTS
WITH ACTIONABLE INSIGHTS
We research emerging industries and compile thousands of data points to help you see where markets are headed.
Each report comes with a list of actionable next steps so you can capitalize on each trend.
Report: Cashing in on Canvas
The sneaker resale market is estimated to be worth $2 billion a year and is expected to triple by 2025.
It’s also turned teenage sneakerheads into day traders able to earn quick profits by correctly predicting which pairs will become grails. (One shoe, the Nike SB Dunk Low Tokyo, once sold for 94x its $60 list price, according to a Trends analysis.)
How to capitalize:
- Understand the shoes that are all hype -- like the Chinese New Crazy BYW -- and the shoes that will really resell for $2k+.
- Track the “drop dates” on websites and snap them up instantly, using bots, online proxies or other software.
- Re-sell, perhaps within hours, either through brick-and-mortar stores like Flight Club, or via online retailers.
The 6-month trading price of Nike’s Air Force 1 Low Off-White Volts, via StockX
Report: The Beauty Tech Boom
The global cosmetics industry is expected to be $873B by 2023.
Beauty YouTube hit 168 billion views in 2018—nearly double the previous year’s—and investors pumped $303m into beauty tech startups in early 2018.
In 2018, the US was by far the top investor in beauty tech at $1.9B, with Europe a distant second ($281m). This market alone has 2 unicorn brands, 7 ‘soonicorns’ and 13 ‘minicorns,’ including Glossier, Modiface Birchbox, and IT Cosmetics. In short, it’s massive.
How to capitalize:
- Create a platform: there’s no single place that caters to the skincare community.
- Mine the niches: from personalized fragrances to custom curl creams to the tech that helps deliver them to consumers.
Annual beauty-related content views on YouTube (in billions)
Report: Online Plant Sales are Set to Bloom
Americans spent $48B at garden stores last year. But there isn’t a single direct-to-consumer (DTC) retailer that does $10m a year in sales.
Nearly one-third of US households bought at least one houseplant in 2018. If they spent $20 per plant, that’s more than $700m in sales. But some experts believe the market has a far bigger ceiling. The global indoor plant market is projected to grow 66% from 2018 to 2025.
How to capitalize:
Google search popularity, normalized (0-100)
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SMALL BUSINESS DATABASE
We're excited to share exclusive data on 500+ small businesses -- and we expect to eventually collect data for thousands more.
Among the businesses we have information on:
- A podcast producer making $186k/year
- A five-year-old company that offers "vacation parties" for college students, now doing $2.5m/year
- A leather accessories manufacturer that grew to $6.4m in two years
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A pool builder bringing in $8.4m a year after four years
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A CBD website owner bootstrapped to $10m in four years
Here's what we've found:
Nearly half of those small business owners needed less than $10k to get started, and 1 in 5 used less than $1k. Most made their money back within the first year.
17 companies made $1m or more in revenue in their first year, while 6 startups reported profit margins of at least 80% during their first year.
They include companies in the security, trucking, hospitality, and marketing/advertising space. One business––a virtual marketing agency that focuses on gig workers––expects to bring in $300k this year, with annual operating costs of $3k. Another company projects $3m in 2019 revenue with $250k in annual costs.
Find out which startups grow quickly and actually make money.
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The Hustle's mission is simple: help you make a dent in the world and leave your legacy. More specifically, we believe that business building is one of the most effective ways to positively push the world forward. Practically everything we love in this world was created by a person who had an idea and the drive to follow through.
More likely than not, most people thought that the builder’s idea was stupid or not worth pursuing. But the builder had vision and fire, so they built it anyway. The thing they built could have been something seemingly small. Like a new type of lip gloss. Or it could have been big, like an electric car. But inside every builder was a fire that pushed them forward through years of lows, anxiety, stress, or loneliness. And for what? Just some lip gloss or a car that will be outdated in a year?
No.
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