Strategy: Business models
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Long-term planning
Podcast
EA's path to a billion gamers: AI, community, and the future of entertainment
Masters of Scale
September 24, 2024
Long-term planning
10
Business models
9
AI strategy & adoption
6
- AI cut a three-year dev cycle to make 11,000 real college athletes possible
- EA's FIFA exit shows owning your brand beats sharing it
- Gaming IP will rival Marvel within a decade — Wilson explains why
Nine online business ideas anyone can start with minimal capital
Silicon Valley Girl
September 10, 2024
Business models
9
Bootstrapping
6
Influencer & partnerships
6
- Earn $150–$300 per video as a brand creator — no audience needed.
- Creator economy roles like sales manager pay 10–20% commission.
- Print on demand and paid communities generate near-passive recurring income.
Why blockchains are the antidote to internet consolidation
EO
September 7, 2024
Business models
9
AI strategy & adoption
6
- Five companies now capture 95%+ of internet traffic and revenue.
- Blockchains give users ownership of followers, data, and assets.
- AI will destroy creator business models without a new ownership layer.
How to build a $5M/yr online course business from scratch
Sunny Lenarduzzi
September 3, 2024
Business models
9
Funnels
8
Prospecting & outreach
7
- Why information-dump courses fail — and what a transformational offer looks like.
- Run 50+ research interviews before building anything; pre-sell to founding clients.
- Proof beats ads: client results are the engine behind consistent $5M/yr revenue.
Six lessons from high-growth B2B SaaS investments
Rob Walling
September 1, 2024
Business models
9
Pricing strategy
7
Product-market fit
6
- Growth is a multiplier: founder quality times market quality equals outcome.
- Founders who drop side projects and focus see near-immediate acceleration.
- Lower-priced customers churn faster — no exceptions found across 171 companies.
Story Protocol: building the programmable IP layer for the AI age
EO
August 28, 2024
Business models
9
AI strategy & adoption
7
Pricing strategy
6
- AI destroys creator revenue models — blockchain restores them
- IP encoded as Lego bricks: composable, licensable, royalty-paying
- Video games embraced remixing and grew 7x; music didn't and stagnated
How Campus is fixing community college with online live instruction
Masters of Scale
August 27, 2024
Business models
9
Origin stories
7
Fundraising & VC
6
- 68% of community college students drop out — Campus fixes that
- Better graduation rates raise revenue, making student support self-funding
- Sam Altman closed a deal in four days; Shaq has a doctorate
How to build a knowledge-based online business to $100k in six months
Sunny Lenarduzzi
August 27, 2024
Business models
9
Prospecting & outreach
8
Funnels
6
- One offer beats a value ladder — focus beats horizontal scaling every time
- Sell to people in pain, not beginners; prescription programs convert far higher
- Direct conversations with 50 people generated $90k in three weeks with no audience
Competitive analysis
Podcast
Five standout frameworks on market selection and competitive advantage
Business Breakdowns
August 21, 2024
Competitive analysis
9
Niche selection
8
Business models
6
- Low barriers to entry, high barriers to scale—the real moat builder.
- Small regulated markets with clear leaders beat hot growth markets.
- Local geography and monopolies matter more than overall market size.
How Fireworks AI scaled 100x in six months by solving GPU cost and latency
EO
August 20, 2024
Business models
9
AI tools & automation
8
Case studies
7
- GPU cost and latency are the two killers of AI product viability
- 100x traffic growth in six months; $552M valuation after Series B
- Compound AI routes queries across specialist models and live APIs
How to monetise your expertise and build a legacy online business
Sunny Lenarduzzi
August 6, 2024
Business models
9
Email marketing
7
Identity & self-belief
5
- Your income ceiling breaks when you stop selling time
- AI handles information — human expertise creates real transformation
- Own your audience with email; social platforms can vanish overnight
Competitive analysis
Podcast
Five essential questions to craft a winning strategy
Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth
July 25, 2024
Competitive analysis
10
Long-term planning
7
Business models
6
- Answer five interconnected questions to build defensible competitive advantage through integrated choice-making.
- Only two sustainable ways to win: lowest cost or differentiated—middle ground means competitors bully you indefinitely.
- Multifaceted capabilities and management systems create moats competitors won't attempt to replicate.
Axon: How a Taser monopoly became a public safety software platform
Business Breakdowns
July 24, 2024
Business models
9
Case studies
7
AI strategy & adoption
6
- Taser monopoly evolved into integrated ecosystem: hardware plus 95% subscription revenue generating $325/month bundles.
- Flywheel locks customers in: Tasers open the door, body cameras create evidence, software becomes indispensable for storage.
- Draft One AI tool saves officers 1-2 hours daily on paperwork, driving 25%+ revenue growth and 40% EBITDA expansion forward.
Three questions to validate your online course business idea
Sunny Lenarduzzi
July 23, 2024
Business models
8
Identity & self-belief
6
- Why lived experience beats studied knowledge when building a course
- Your method must work for strangers with zero input from you
- Desire to mentor matters more than desire to earn
Building an invincible company through explore and exploit
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Business models
9
Long-term planning
8
Processes & SOPs
6
- Innovation is a search problem — run many bets, kill most early.
- Evidence across four risk dimensions beats ideas on a spreadsheet.
- CEO spending 40%+ of time on innovation is the decisive signal.