Strategy: Business models
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How to build a profitable online course business in the right order
Sunny Lenarduzzi
February 6, 2024
Business models
9
Product-market fit
8
Copywriting
7
- Starting with audience or course first is the wrong move
- Hyper-specific offers create must-have courses, not nice-to-haves
- 1,250 targeted leads can be enough to generate $1 million
The best business types to start, ranked by gross margin
Dan Martell
February 4, 2024
Business models
10
Pricing strategy
7
Product-market fit
5
- Gross margin determines how fast your business can compound.
- Software and coaching beat agencies and products on margin every time.
- Retention beats acquisition — churn kills software margin at the root.
Geoffrey Moore on the technology adoption lifecycle and crossing the chasm
Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth
January 25, 2024
Market research
9
B2B sales
8
Business models
6
- Pragmatists reject visionaries as references — that gap is the chasm
- One narrow segment, dominated completely, is the only way across
- Wrong playbook for the phase actively destroys deals and credibility
10 principles behind businesses that double repeatedly
KeyPersonOfInfluence
January 21, 2024
Business models
9
Culture building
7
Processes & SOPs
6
- Why consistency and not changing beats constant reinvention
- How dopamine loops keep customers hooked and returning
- Staying disciplined at scale is the hardest growth principle
Ideal customers, B2C to B2B transitions, and go-to-market for bootstrapped SaaS
Startups For the Rest of Us
January 9, 2024
Business models
9
Customer discovery
8
Pricing strategy
7
- Free users rarely pay — validate before chasing a competitor's displaced audience.
- Freemium at $20/month can't be bootstrapped; the math requires venture-scale traffic.
- Changing your target market forces changes to product, model, and channel simultaneously.
How to build a scalable online business by packaging your expertise
Sunny Lenarduzzi
January 2, 2024
Business models
9
Content marketing
6
Pricing strategy
5
- Freelance and service businesses always hit a time-income ceiling
- Packaging your method into a program breaks the hours-for-dollars trap
- 200 clients at $5,000 outperforms 2,000 clients at $500 with less effort
Two frameworks for building consumer and marketplace startups
Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth
December 27, 2023
Business models
9
Product-market fit
7
Growth hacking
6
- Why MAUs and GMV are vanity metrics that mislead founders
- The one user action that predicts whether your product will retain
- Focus on a tiny market first — then tip it, then dominate
Acquired 2023 year in review: growth, brand, and going all-in
Acquired
December 18, 2023
Business models
8
Case studies
7
Branding
6
- Why growing too fast can hollow out a niche media business
- Studying LVMH taught them to stop apologising for scarcity
- Both hosts go full-time together and begin co-investing
Ferrari: how a racing obsession became a $70 billion luxury brand
Business Breakdowns
December 13, 2023
Business models
9
Origin stories
7
Retention & loyalty
6
- Ferrari sells 13,000 cars a year — scarcity is the strategy.
- Margins match luxury goods, not automotive: mid-to-high 20s EBIT.
- A collector pyramid drives recurring lifetime value, not one-off purchases.
Five business mistakes that slow growth and how to avoid them
KeyPersonOfInfluence
December 10, 2023
Business models
8
Pricing strategy
7
Niche selection
6
- Passive income is a trap — build assets you're passionate about instead.
- Low prices attract the wrong customers; target people who pay to save time.
- Referrals alone are too slow — control at least five acquisition channels.
Understanding platform risk in SaaS: types, mitigation, and when to accept it
Rob Walling
December 3, 2023
Business models
9
Niche selection
6
- Shopify killed a multi-million dollar app with one email
- Infrastructure risk and app store risk require different mitigation strategies
- Platform risk is sometimes acceptable — especially in early stair-step businesses
How Visa became the world's most profitable payment network
Acquired
November 27, 2023
Business models
10
Origin stories
7
- Visa owns no cards, bears no risk, yet earns 50% net margins.
- One self-taught outsider convinced 200 competing banks to share a network.
- A five-sided network effect built over 50 years is nearly impossible to displace.
Tom Murphy and Capital Cities: how a rowboat beat the QE2
Founders
November 22, 2023
Business models
10
Long-term planning
9
Capital allocation
8
- A rowboat outran the QE2: focus beats scale over 30 years
- Buying ABC at 100% of enterprise value — and doubling margins in two years
- Why Murphy treated every new hire as a $3 million lifetime decision
How a scalable online business runs without you during maternity leave
Sunny Lenarduzzi
November 21, 2023
Business models
9
Processes & SOPs
7
Work-life balance
6
- Business generated multiple seven figures while founder was completely offline.
- Packaging expertise into a program detaches income from your time.
- The mother-or-career binary is a narrative — entrepreneurship breaks it.
How Coca-Cola built the world's most durable beverage franchise
Business Breakdowns
November 15, 2023
Business models
9
Branding
6
- Coke's financials understate value creation — you must look at the system
- Franchising bottling assets creates 30% ROIC at the centre vs 10–15% at the edge
- Emerging markets could treble Coke's addressable consumer base over 20 years