Strategy: Business models
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Building a subscription model that earns long-term customer loyalty
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Business models
9
Retention & loyalty
8
Pricing strategy
6
- Define your forever promise before touching pricing or product bundles
- Your hardest-to-onboard customers are often your highest-lifetime-value accounts
- Rewarding new or threatening customers destroys loyalty in your best ones
Blue ocean strategy
YouTube
Beyond zero-sum: creating new markets without disrupting existing ones
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Blue ocean strategy
9
Business models
6
- You can grow without displacing competitors, jobs, or industries
- Lead with value for users — technology that lacks it always fails
- Replace 'should we' with 'could we' to unlock everyone's creativity
Three keys to forming effective business alliances
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Business models
9
Communication
6
- Partner with companies in your space but serving different customers
- Both sides must identify a concrete, measurable win upfront
- Treat the alliance like a paying client or it quietly dies
What most people miss about marketing and psychology in product success
Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth
July 21, 2024
Business models
9
Branding
8
Product-market fit
6
- Great products routinely fail — marketing and psychology are usually decisive
- Fame compounds non-linearly; it changes every rule of doing business
- Small, weird product details create disproportionate attention and loyalty
How to build a profitable micro SaaS business in three steps
TK Kader
July 14, 2024
Business models
9
MVP & prototyping
8
Content marketing
7
- Build your go-to-market machine before writing a single line of code
- Charge $30/month minimum — freemium attracts the wrong users
- Single-player onboarding determines whether users convert or churn
Four-product ecosystem framework for sustainable business profit
KeyPersonOfInfluence
July 7, 2024
Business models
9
Iteration & feedback loops
6
- One product doesn't make money — a four-product ecosystem does
- Porsche earns 40–50% margins on finance, not 4–5% on cars
- Recurring post-purchase revenue drives valuation more than core sales
How to build a $150K/month exotic car rental business with investor cars
Brett Malinowski
June 30, 2024
Business models
9
Pricing strategy
7
Processes & SOPs
6
- Own no cars, earn $150K/month using a 50/50 investor model
- Insurance verification is the one process that can wipe you out
- Personal brand attracts both renters and car investors simultaneously
Motorola Solutions: how a legacy brand rebuilt itself around mission-critical communications
Business Breakdowns
June 26, 2024
Pivoting
9
Capital allocation
8
Business models
6
- 80% market share in a sticky, government-backed radio monopoly most investors missed
- Buybacks at one-third of today's price drove most of the long-term return
- Adjacent moves into video and software doubled the growth profile without sacrificing margins
Using YouTube as a lead engine, not a business model
Sunny Lenarduzzi
June 25, 2024
Business models
9
Content marketing
8
- AdSense and sponsorships keep the platform in control of your income
- Free content builds trust; a paid program delivers the transformation clients pay for
- You don't need a big audience — you need genuine expertise and the right offer
How to disrupt markets by breaking the customer value chain
EO
June 14, 2024
Business models
9
Competitive analysis
5
- Steal the one activity customers hate most from incumbents
- Three disruption types: remove pain, isolate joy, separate payment
- Profitable business models must be tested — value creation doesn't guarantee them
Bootstrapping a form builder to $1.3M ARR with a free-first strategy
Startups For the Rest of Us
June 11, 2024
Business models
9
Pricing strategy
7
Growth hacking
6
- Free only works when your product has built-in virality.
- Cold outreach for a free tool got them their first thousand users.
- 300,000 free users, two and a half people, zero paid acquisition.
How to start a SaaS company: market first, then go-to-market, then product
TK Kader
June 9, 2024
Business models
9
Customer discovery
8
Prospecting & outreach
6
- Build audience and mailing list before writing a single line of code
- Start selling immediately — even a broken product reveals what buyers want
- Front-load demo and pricing thinking to sharpen product decisions early
Five business types that rarely achieve escape velocity
KeyPersonOfInfluence
June 9, 2024
- High-capex businesses keep recycling profit, blocking the liftoff moment.
- Sexy lifestyle businesses attract loss-tolerant competitors who kill margins.
- IP, media, software, and data businesses scale without proportional reinvestment.
How Greg Isenberg built six profitable businesses using the ACP funnel
Starter Story
June 8, 2024
Business models
9
Growth hacking
8
Outsourcing & delegation
6
- Build audience and community before product — or clients walk away
- Charging $1.5M per client instead of $1,500 per month is possible
- Diversify across six small profitable businesses for built-in resilience
Three lessons for foreign founders building global companies
EO
June 8, 2024
Business models
8
Identity & self-belief
7
- Local moats vanish in digital markets — compete globally or die
- 29 investor rejections reversed once ARR tripled in one summer
- High-context culture habits silently sabotage US startup performance