Strategy: Business models
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How Cost Plus Drugs is cutting prescription prices by bypassing pharmacy middlemen
Masters of Scale
December 3, 2024
Business models
9
Automation & tools
7
Case studies
6
- PBMs pocket 30–40% of drug spending while marking up prices 100x
- Transparency alone cuts drug costs by up to 99% for patients
- Robotic manufacturing targets drugs no one else will make
What product-led growth actually means for bootstrapped SaaS founders
Startups For the Rest of Us
November 26, 2024
Business models
9
Product-market fit
7
Bootstrapping
6
- Engagement before monetization is the one true PLG test.
- Free trials don't make you PLG — the value outcome does.
- One in 300 products actually markets itself; you still must sell.
How to build a scalable online education business using coaching at scale
Sunny Lenarduzzi
November 26, 2024
Business models
10
MVP & prototyping
8
Content marketing
7
- Charge for the outcome, not hours — income becomes truly scalable
- Pre-sell before you build to validate, get paid, and gain confidence
- YouTube plus email list creates an automated lead machine that runs without you
Informa: how the world's largest live events business was built
Business Breakdowns
November 20, 2024
Business models
9
Unit economics
7
Long-term planning
6
- Owning the IP, not the venue, produces 30–40% operating margins.
- Negative working capital grows stronger as the events portfolio scales.
- First-party B2B intent data may be the most underappreciated asset in media.
How Octopus Energy built a $20B business by digitising the grid
Masters of Scale
November 14, 2024
Business models
10
Case studies
7
Pricing strategy
5
- Octopus built an energy company just to prove its own software could work
- Smart charging makes driving an EV seven times cheaper than petrol
- Renewables are already cheaper — vested interests are the only real barrier
How to turn your hobby into a $10k/month online business
Sunny Lenarduzzi
November 12, 2024
Business models
9
Customer discovery
8
B2C sales
7
- Selling your time as a hobbyist guarantees burnout — here's the exit.
- Test your offer with live clients and get paid before building anything.
- A $1k course plus automated YouTube leads can hit $10k/month.
Ten steps to build a million-dollar business from scratch
Dan Martell
November 8, 2024
Business models
9
Prospecting & outreach
8
Management
7
- Charge 10% of the value you create, never bill by the hour
- Solve painful problems for rich people — broke customers don't pay
- Delegate using recorded SOPs so you stop being the bottleneck
A five-step blueprint for building a multi-million-dollar business
KeyPersonOfInfluence
November 3, 2024
Business models
10
MVP & prototyping
7
AI strategy & adoption
7
- Content without real expertise behind it never gains traction
- Each stage — IP, media, data, software, AI — feeds the next
- AI-enhanced subscription software can exit at 10–20x revenue
31 profitable business ideas for the next decade
Silicon Valley Girl
October 21, 2024
Niche selection
9
Business models
8
MVP & prototyping
5
- Pick a growing market — effort is constant, upside is not
- AI consulting, UGC creation, and drop servicing require almost no capital
- Subscription models beat one-off sales for predictability and stickiness
Scaling SaaS startups: stages, metrics, and growth traps
Bill Gallagher
October 16, 2024
Business models
9
Unit economics
7
Content marketing
5
- Why land-and-expand economics often fail at scale
- Four unavoidable stages from MVP to profitable growth
- Charge for value already delivered with a hero-plus plan
Wikipedia CEO on surviving AI, disinformation, and government threats
Masters of Scale
October 15, 2024
Business models
9
Management
7
AI strategy & adoption
6
- Wikipedia traffic rose after ChatGPT launched — trust is increasing.
- AI attribution is the existential fight: no credit means no volunteer motivation.
- The real threat is erosion of journalism and research Wikipedia depends on.
Eight levels of SaaS platform risk: a framework for founders
Startups For the Rest of Us
October 15, 2024
Business models
9
Long-term planning
6
- Shopify and Twitter are the highest risk: no replacement, total dependency.
- Losing Google SEO rankings is more existential than any cloud provider outage.
- No-code platforms carry hidden risk: no code export, can 10x pricing overnight.
Paperless Post: building a premium digital invitation business from scratch
How I Built This with Guy Raz
October 7, 2024
Pivoting
8
Business models
8
Fundraising & VC
8
- Why investors were wrong that no one would pay for digital invitations
- Killing a working revenue model mid-launch to save the company
- COVID erased a decade of growth in one month — how they survived
The Blacklist expands from Hollywood scripts to unpublished novels
Masters of Scale
October 1, 2024
Business models
9
Case studies
8
Bootstrapping
6
- Hollywood's risk assumptions are wrong — and fixing them unlocks $30B+
- Blacklist scripts earn 90% more revenue than comparable non-Blacklist films
- Novelists can now reach publishers and film producers through one platform
How marketplaces win: Liquidity, growth levers, and supply strategies
Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth
September 29, 2024
Business models
9
Product-market fit
7
Scaling infrastructure
6
- Liquidity — not features — is the single metric that determines if a marketplace survives.
- Lyft competed with Uber at one-tenth the resources using peer-driven driver onboarding.
- Ignoring one side of your marketplace kills growth slowly, then all at once.