Strategy: Business models
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Partnership marketing strategy for SaaS: direct first, then channels
TK Kader
March 13, 2022
Business models
8
Growth hacking
8
Processes & SOPs
7
- Partnerships only work as accelerants after your direct motion is proven.
- Most partner programs fail by recruiting partners but never activating them.
- Documenting sales playbooks before hiring prevents costly growth plateaus.
How Joma quit Google to run a solo YouTube media operation
Silicon Valley Girl
March 10, 2022
Business models
9
Outsourcing & delegation
7
Bootstrapping
6
- Running three YouTube channels with zero full-time employees
- A $230k NFT drop funds ~10 videos at $20k each
- Don't grow headcount fast — media revenue is too volatile
Retaining employees and criteria for an ideal bootstrapped SaaS
Startups For the Rest of Us
March 8, 2022
Business models
9
Hiring & recruitment
6
Bootstrapping
5
- Net negative churn is the SaaS cheat code — build it in from day one.
- Salary isn't the top retention lever; autonomy and stability often win.
- Dual pricing funnels — cheap self-serve plus enterprise — grow fastest.
Eight steps to build a million-dollar online business from scratch
Sunny Lenarduzzi
March 1, 2022
Business models
9
Content marketing
8
Pricing psychology
7
- Price on client value, not time — undercharging kills consistency
- A tiny targeted audience converts better than a large unfocused one
- Evergreen YouTube content compounds into leads for years
Three simple SaaS ideas to start your first product
TK Kader
February 20, 2022
Business models
9
MVP & prototyping
6
- Why your first SaaS idea should be embarrassingly simple
- Three starter blueprints: analytics tool, CRUD app, API wrapper
- Simple weekend projects can compound into venture-backed businesses
How BasicFit became Europe's dominant low-cost gym operator
Business Breakdowns
February 16, 2022
Business models
9
Unit economics
8
Long-term planning
6
- How owned-and-operated gyms lower costs faster than franchises can compete
- Clustering strategy creates winner-take-all infrastructure moat at scale
- Low-cost supply unlocked 10 years of TAM expansion in European gym market
Buying vs building tools, zombie companies, and listener Q&A with Craig Hewitt
Startups For the Rest of Us
February 15, 2022
Business models
8
Fundraising & VC
6
Automation & tools
5
- Lifestyle businesses and investor returns are fundamentally incompatible goals.
- Non-technical founders need a co-founder, not a freelancer, to reduce risk.
- Building internal tools almost never beats buying off-the-shelf alternatives.
Understanding incentives is how you actually change the world
Y Combinator
February 2, 2022
Market research
9
Customer discovery
7
Business models
6
- Why software alone can't kill car dealers, realtors, or recruiters
- Ride sharing failed repeatedly until Uber mapped every stakeholder's incentives
- Not Googling your idea before building it is willful ignorance
Six business models to monetize your knowledge and skills
Sunny Lenarduzzi
February 1, 2022
Business models
9
Product-market fit
5
- Courses beat coaching — no income ceiling, clients don't rely on your schedule.
- Most influencer income is noise; 98% of real revenue comes from programs.
- Skip one-on-one coaching first — hybrid programs validate faster and scale sooner.
Micropreneurship, inflation hedges, and renaming your company
Startups For the Rest of Us
January 25, 2022
Business models
8
Content marketing
7
Bootstrapping
6
- Gold is not an inflation hedge — B2B SaaS is.
- Micropreneurship is alive; plugin ecosystems are the best entry point today.
- Five core B2B SaaS marketing channels every founder should evaluate first.
How Taylor Swift rewired the music industry's power dynamics
Acquired
January 23, 2022
Business models
9
Case studies
8
Negotiation
6
- Artists earn ~$400 per million streams — a fraction of CD-era income
- Taylor forced Apple to reverse its global artist-payout policy in 24 hours
- Re-recording her catalog actively devalues $300M in masters held by a rival
Nine crypto side hustles beyond simply buying coins
Noah Kagan
January 20, 2022
Business models
8
Prospecting & outreach
7
MVP & prototyping
5
- Serving crypto users beats owning crypto for building real income.
- All nine hustles start manually — automate only after proving demand.
- From whale tracking to NFT insurance, infrastructure gaps are the opportunity.
Warren Buffett's core principles for building an enduring business
Founders
January 20, 2022
Business models
9
Capital allocation
8
Culture building
6
- Concentrate everything on a tiny supply of truly outstanding businesses.
- Holding enormous cash reserves lets you play offence when others scramble for survival.
- Arrogance, bureaucracy and complacency destroyed GM, IBM and Sears — avoid all three.
Three SaaS ideas evaluated using market-first principles
TK Kader
January 16, 2022
Business models
9
Niche selection
7
- No dominant standard exists for contract red lines — huge gap.
- Start with market size and macro trends, not the product idea.
- CRM is a $41B category with no version built for creators yet.
Competitive analysis
Podcast
Seven Powers: A Framework for Competitive Advantage
Acquired
December 8, 2021
Competitive analysis
10
Business models
6
- Power requires both a benefit competitors lack and a barrier preventing imitation—most startups miss the second part
- Seven specific sources of competitive advantage emerge only during market takeoff when strategies can still be established
- Counter positioning lets new entrants win because incumbents cannot cannibalize their profitable existing business models