Strategy: Business models
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Building and selling a home service business in 19 months
Brett Malinowski
September 25, 2023
Business models
9
Unit economics
8
Case studies
7
- Pool routes sell for 8–12x monthly revenue — a built-in exit.
- SMMA owners can own the business they're marketing for 5x returns.
- Subscription home services beat online businesses for speed to $10k/month.
Why being oversubscribed matters more than the economy
KeyPersonOfInfluence
September 24, 2023
Business models
9
Processes & SOPs
6
- Recessions don't cause losses — mismatched supply and demand does
- Only oversubscribed businesses make profit; balance earns only a wage
- Setting real capacity is the first step to becoming oversubscribed
How Hunter Hammons launches a million-dollar business every month
Starter Story
September 20, 2023
Business models
9
Case studies
7
Hiring & recruitment
5
- Pair a creator's audience with your ops playbook to skip cold sales.
- Fixed-price, scoped deliverables beat unlimited offers every time.
- Productized services are a cash engine — Phase 2 is SaaS and products.
How to package your offer like a Porsche 911
KeyPersonOfInfluence
September 10, 2023
Business models
9
Closing techniques
7
- Selling components separately destroys value; bundling multiplies it.
- Four value types — innovation, relationships, tasks, resources — must all combine.
- The deck of cards encodes a timeless framework for value creation.
The business case for investing in padel clubs in the US
Business Breakdowns
September 6, 2023
Business models
9
Unit economics
8
- 35% operating margins and 2–3 year payback on padel clubs today
- Supply scarcity is the moat — building courts is hard in the US
- Easy to learn, nearly impossible to master — the addiction loop that drives retention
How Etsy grew from $500M to $13B GMV: product, culture, and marketplace strategy
Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth
September 3, 2023
Business models
9
Iteration & feedback loops
7
Case studies
6
- One metric — GMS — unlocked Etsy's cultural and product transformation
- Unique inventory demands different conversion tactics: nudges, reviews, scarcity signals
- Marketplace integrity, not just supply volume, is what separates Etsy from Amazon
Listener Q&A: SaaS exit valuations, idea selection, and B2B marketing
Startups For the Rest of Us
August 29, 2023
Business models
8
Fundraising & VC
8
Growth hacking
6
- Founders anchored to 2021 peak multiples are blocking acquisition deals today.
- Competitive markets beat empty ones — category creation needs millions and years.
- B2B SaaS rarely benefits from audience-building; cold outreach and SEO compound faster.
Seven AI SaaS ideas for salespeople using the MGP framework
TK Kader
August 13, 2023
Business models
9
Customer discovery
7
Prospecting & outreach
6
- Build product last — validate market and jobs-to-be-done first.
- Seven concrete AI SaaS ideas mapped to a salesperson's daily workflow.
- Dead deals, lost prospects, and pre-call research are the biggest gaps CRM ignores.
Blitzscaling: prioritising speed over efficiency to win winner-take-most markets
EO
August 10, 2023
Business models
9
Long-term planning
7
Fundraising & VC
5
- In winner-take-most markets, slower competitors lose regardless of execution quality.
- Launch embarrassing products early — real user feedback beats founder intuition.
- AI creates new winner-take-most dynamics that reward blitzscaling more than ever.
What type of SaaS business do you actually want to build?
Rob Walling
August 6, 2023
Business models
9
Fundraising & VC
6
Bootstrapping
5
- Three bootstrapping paths exist — only one direction of travel is possible.
- Raising venture capital is a one-way door you cannot walk back through.
- Ask 'What if it works?' before committing to any business model.
Product ecosystems make money, not individual products
KeyPersonOfInfluence
August 6, 2023
Business models
9
Funnels
7
- Ecosystems beat individual products — copying one product is easy, copying a whole ecosystem is not.
- Running a free intro workshop every week can generate a £1M annual run rate.
- Scorecards convert leads 65% better than any other form of marketing.
How to make your first million dollars: a four-step framework
Brett Malinowski
August 1, 2023
Business models
9
Long-term planning
8
Bootstrapping
6
- Every income level is gated by skills you've actually used.
- Agencies scale to $100k/month, then become a people-management trap.
- Software is the only business model with an uncapped ceiling.
Four SaaS Cheat Codes: The Dual Funnel Growth Strategy
Rob Walling
July 30, 2023
Business models
9
Growth hacking
7
B2B sales
6
- Run self-serve and enterprise funnels simultaneously on one product.
- Small customers build brand that makes closing enterprise deals easier.
- Listen for white-label or API requests — charge thousands monthly for them.
How Land O'Lakes scales what customers can't see
Masters of Scale
July 25, 2023
Business models
9
Supply chain
7
Long-term planning
6
- A butter brand secretly runs a $7B agricultural data business
- Farmer-owned cooperatives create ballast competitors can't copy
- Broadband access is the hidden bottleneck for precision farming
How OpenAI and Airbnb used blitzscaling to win their markets
EO
July 15, 2023
Business models
9
Long-term planning
8
Product-market fit
7
- Speed over efficiency is the only play in winner-take-most markets
- Launch embarrassingly early — real feedback beats internal intuition
- AI creates the perfect blitzscaling conditions: data advantages compound fast