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Table of Contents

• This Week in Business & Tech 🗞️

• Tool of the Week 🛠️

• Career & Hustle Tips 💼

• This Week in AI 🤖

• Your Newsletter, Your Paycheck: Start Earning with beehiiv 📧

• Bonus Tools 💎

• Job Hunt Playbook 🔍

• Build Your Own Thing 🚀

• Insights by Tezons 🧠

• Quote of the Week 💬

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This Week in Business & Tech 🗞️

1️⃣ Business: US says deal with Beijing will expedite rare earth exports from China

US and China announce new trade pact easing rare‑earth restrictions and lifting some U.S. measures. The agreement unlocks critical minerals for chipmakers while suspending select tariffs for 90 days to kick‑start negotiations on digital taxes and non‑market practices.

🔍 Insight: Supply‑chain champions will pivot fast - secure guaranteed rare‑earth supplies now before competitors lock in volumes.

2️⃣ Finance: AI vs. Bankers

AI could wipe out entire Wall Street teams, execs warn. Goldman Sachs reports that generative models can draft 95 percent of an IPO prospectus in minutes, slashing junior‑desk roles by up to 30 percent across major banks.

🔍 Insight: The value shift is clear - only professionals who blend deep sector expertise with AI savviness will avoid redundancy.

3️⃣ Marketing: Reddit’s Community Intelligence

Reddit unveils AI‑driven ad tools to help brands tap into real‑time user discussions. Launched at Cannes Lions, these features analyze community threads and auto‑generate ad assets based on trending conversations, boosting relevance and engagement.

🔍 Insight: Community intelligence is your next competitive edge - generic ads are dead; hyper‑targeted, conversation‑fueled creatives win.

Tool of the Week: Webflow 🛠️

Webflow is a no‑code web design platform that gives you the power of HTML, CSS and JavaScript - without typing a single line. Its drag‑and‑drop canvas, built‑in CMS and one‑click hosting mean you can sketch out pixel‑perfect layouts, spin up blogs or product catalogs, and go live in days instead of weeks.

Whether you’re a designer prototyping client work, a startup founder validating an idea, or a marketer craving independence from dev teams, Webflow scales with your needs. You get global CDN hosting, SSL security, e‑commerce tools and seamless integrations (think Zapier, Memberstack and custom APIs) all under one roof - plus the option to export clean code if you ever need to break free.

Career & Hustle Tips 💼

Lean Into Micro‑Wins

Celebrate small milestones, whether it’s securing your first client, finishing a course module, or writing a convincing cold email. Building momentum keeps motivation high and proves your process works. As you rack up these wins, share them on LinkedIn or in a newsletter to build social proof and attract more opportunities.

🔍 Tip: At the end of each day, jot down three things you moved forward, even tiny ones, and review them weekly to spotlight progress.

This Week in AI 🤖

Agentic Workflows and Frameless Agents on the Rise

Last week, Fujitsu launched its Agentic Workflow Orchestrator, a framework that lets developers spin up multi‑agent systems capable of self‑optimizing complex business processes in real-time. Early benchmarks show up to 35–50% faster automation timelines compared to traditional RPA tools, and the drag‑and‑drop canvas means you can prototype sophisticated agent interactions without deep engineering cycles. This is your signal that AI product roadmaps must include not just models, but the orchestration layer that turns those models into autonomous, business‑critical pipelines.

Meanwhile, LangChain celebrated powering over 130,000 live applications, thanks to its new v1.0 release that bolsters composability, observability, and multi‑model flexibility. From on‑device assistants to customer‑support agents that fetch and act on proprietary data, LangChain’s open‑source foundations are now matched by enterprise‑grade features for security, monitoring, and long‑running “stateful” agents. If you’re still building single‑call LLM integrations, you’re missing out on the era of continuous, context‑aware AI services.

🔍 Tip: Kick off your first micro‑agent this week by choosing a simple task (e.g., summarizing your support tickets), wire it up in a no‑code agent builder like Lindy or n8n, then plug in a LangChain prompt chain for logic - measure time saved and iterate.

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Bonus Tools 💎

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Job Hunt Playbook 🔍

Leverage Informational Interview Sprints

Target five alumni or second‑degree LinkedIn connections in companies you want to join. Send ultra‑personalized 3‑sentence requests: mention a shared background, one specific project they led, and ask for 15 minutes to learn how they broke in. Structure each call with two role‑specific questions, one “what surprised you” prompt, and one ask for a referral or next contact.

🔍 Tip: Schedule all five interviews within two weeks - group momentum will keep you accountable and spread insights across multiple targets.

Build Your Own Thing 🚀

Turn Daily Frustrations into Profitable Ideas

Every side hustle starts with a pain point you can solve better, or more conveniently, than the alternatives. Step one: list three annoyances in your own workflow or industry chat channels. Step two: validate by asking ten potential users how they solve it today, and whether they’d pay for a streamlined fix. This quick research phase costs time, not money, and filters out weak ideas before you invest.

Once you’ve got validation, build a minimum viable product, be it a one‑page app, a Zapier workflow, or a simple service email funnel. Launch with a small cohort, collect feedback, then iterate on features and pricing. Keep your first version scrappy; real users will reveal what really matters.

🔍 Tip: Use no‑code tools (Bubble, Zapier, Airtable) to prototype your solution in under a week and test willingness to pay before writing any production code.

Insights by Tezons 🧠

Email Marketing in 2025: Powerful Strategies for Small Businesses

Email marketing isn’t dead – it’s more alive and lucrative than ever. Even in 2025, small online businesses can expect huge returns: studies show email delivers roughly $41–$43 ROI for every $1 spent. That far outpaces most channels (email is even 40× more effective at customer acquisition than social ads). With inboxes checked constantly – nearly 39% of people look 3–5 times per day – email remains the direct line to customers. As marketing expert David Newman observes, “Email has an ability many channels don’t: creating valuable, personal touches — at scale.” For a small business, that means sending a targeted offer or newsletter can be more cost-effective than posting on social feeds.

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Quote of the Week 💬

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