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16 episodes or pure alpha breaking down our favorite tabs for your listening pleasure.

https://twitter.com/i/events/1482753562794885122?s=10 (Colin)

https://www.npr.org/2022/01/13/1072529477/more-than-1-million-fewer-students-are-in-college-the-lowest-enrollment-numbers (Oren)

https://www.yepic.ai/ (James)

https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/14/entertainment/spider-man-black-suit-comic-3-million-cec/index.html (Colin)

https://blockbar.com/ (Oren)

http://www.articlevideorobot.com (James)

Episode 15 is here and we dive into all the things you didn't know you needed to know.

From the mocktail nonalcoholic wave to the opportunity to buy the royalty rights of K Pop superstars.

https://snaxshot.com/ (Oren)

https://twitter.com/i/events/1478776050263887874 (Colin)

https://www.tiktok.com/@jtbarnett/video/7050956264662158639 (James)

https://www.muscleandstrength.com/articles/gain-35lbs-in-6-weeks-naturally (Oren)

https://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/32988992/fanatics-acquiring-topps-trading-cards-collectables-businesses-sources-say (Colin)

https://www.royaltyexchange.com/ (James)

https://www.commitaction.com/ (James)

https://www.theschooloflife.com (Colin)

https://www.web.archive.org (Oren)

https://lempod.com/ (James)

Welcome back to episode 12 of Tab Talk

Get Ready for a deep dive into everything from the house of cards that is the airline points industry all the way to plant hoarding.

First up is Duuce, the marketplace for buying and selling newsletters online. Some are overvalued and some are a steal.

https://duuce.com/

New Zealand is banning Tobacco. They are raising the legal age every year until people born in 2008 can never smoke. Is it people's right to consume tobacco?

https://twitter.com/i/events/1470506809634942977?utm_source=coda&utm_medium=iframely

A menswear company that makes award-winning clothes out of copper? Oren brings another deep dive into a fascinating piece of fashion.

https://www.vollebak.com/gear/?utm_source=coda&utm_medium=iframely

Solid Basics is a blanks company that provides blanks to your favorite streetwear brands, Colin discovered them through a niche tik toker.

https://solidbasics.co/?utm_source=coda&utm_medium=iframely

Plants are sick...and people are hoarding them? Oren brings a tab nobody saw coming. The underground world of plant hoarding is blowing up all over tik tok. And people are going into debt to buy them...

https://www.inputmag.com/culture/online-houseplant-community-hoarding-problem?utm_source=coda&utm_medium=iframely

Many airline points programs EXCEED the value of the actual airline. Operating flights have become a loss leader for their points program. Believe it or not, some airlines points programs are worth 5x what the entire market caps of the busineeses are.

https://twitter.com/jayvasdigital/status/1471839155256709126?s=20

Plus as always James Explains what a "Tiger Team" is and the guys talk about their yeild farm of the hour

Wide ranging tabs today, and only a brief stint in crypto land.

Prestigious Home Mud via Oren

First up are a range of ultra premium home coffee makers ranging from brutalist slabs of concrete to cold brew meth labs. It’s the finer things, really.

https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-drip-coffee-maker/

https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/the-best-coffee-makers

https://www.amazon.com/Yama-Glass-Bamboo-Straight-Frame/dp/B00AM7K93O/ref=asc_df_B00AM7K93O/

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/montaagproducts/anza-redefining-the-espresso-machine-in-concrete-a

Ohm Fork Dev AI Doxx via Colin

Crypto is crazy, AI is crazy. This developer doxxed himself to convince everyone the project wasn’t a rug, then it came out that the photo he used was AI generated. Also: he rugged.

https://twitter.com/0xngmi/status/1470020997508120581?s=21

Oberlo - Dropshipping for dummies via James

Dropshipping can be a tough model, Oberlo makes it crazy easy to spin up stores if you have traffic to leverage. Perfect for short lived viral tiktok moments and ancillary income streams.

oberlo.com

Followers converting to book sales (or not) via Oren

This NY Times article dives into some of the W’s and L’s publishers have have racked up trying to sell books based on social following. It all boils down to alignment of the niche, the medium, and the content. Without all 3 lining up, L.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/07/books/social-media-following-book-publishing.html

Award Hacker via James

Something like 80% of first class flights are booked with points (don’t quote me on that). This site helps to find flight bookings with your credit card points (or combination of).

https://www.awardhacker.com

2022 Pantone color of the year via Colin

The color of the year is a lucious periwinkle purple color “Peri” - which I (Colin) have a personal relationship with.

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/pantone-color-year-2022-peri-2046690

Tab Talk episode 12  is dominated by Twitter threads and parenting advice you didn’t ask for.

My Race Horse via James - Fractional race horse ownership is exactly what it sounds like. For as little as $36 you can get .01% of a race horse that has earned around $1,000 in it’s career.

https://myracehorse.com/

$250M Battery SPAC via Colin - another god damn paywall from Bloomberg, so the actual tab is the Twitter thread they did about it. The battery supply chain is the opposite of diverse, and this group is aiming to bring some battery manufacturing home. Interesting: battery cell manufacturing has hardly changed in years.

https://twitter.com/i/events/1467587887415758852

Landforce’s Writehouse Thread via James - James brings out a thread Colin did this last weekend on a little web app he built. Builders build, truly.

https://twitter.com/landforce/status/1467170550539710468?s=20

Sahil’s Thinkboi Parenthood Thread via Oren - Sahil caught a lot of flack for all his all this good stuff he wants to teach his future child about. Seems like a weird thing to get mad about, but it definitely sent Oren and Colin down a rabbit hole. S/o Cece and Kingston.

https://twitter.com/SahilBloom/status/1467136783083261965?s=20

The Brick Armory via Colin - Originally intro’d to the group chat by Oren, this is a knockoff lego brand that specializes in sets based on every military force you can imagine. From the Spartans to modern swat teams and all the vehicles and equipment in between. Sick.

https://thebrickarmory.com/products/playset-with-2152-pieces

TAB TALK 10

https://www.starlink.com/

The future of internet?

When bandwidth is ubiquitous what happens to telecom?

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/11/21/business/inside-frenzied-used-car-market-stuck-overdrive/

* Inflation up 7%

* New cars up 11%

* USED CARS UP 43%

http://nft.poolsuite.net/

* Hard to tell what degree of corny is gonna pop 

* Getting eviscerated in the comments about NFTs

* Miseducation about NFTs and energy (particularly Solana) is going to kill this space

* Know many projects facing this

* Need an industry strategy of kind response, education, or a version of Eco plugin for NFTs (https://apps.shopify.com/ecocart)

https://lists.heywith.com/

Curated list of projects to monetize your social audience

https://www.businessinsider.com/spring-health-april-koh-mental-health-startup-culture-burnout-quitting-2021-11

Startups are hard, journalists are soft?

https://rumfoords.com/

* There is huge money in helping brands navigate Web3

* Always massive room for money in niche agencies

* Getting into niche agency a. extensive research.  b. curation.  c. expertise publishing.  d. constant outreach

* The same services, plus a knowledge layer

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