Strategy: Business models
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How Amazon Aggregators Buy and Scale Third-Party Seller Businesses
Business Breakdowns
November 17, 2021
Business models
9
Unit economics
8
Supply chain
6
- A $300B market with 15-25% net margins, growing 30-50% annually yet undervalued
- Three superpowers of ranked accounts: reviews, supply chain relationships, and high margins
- Aggregators excel by knowing Amazon operations, not by verticals or cross-selling
How Binging with Babish built a $12M YouTube business
Noah Kagan
November 4, 2021
Business models
9
Content marketing
7
Pricing strategy
5
- Brand deals alone generate nearly $5M a year
- Building audience before product line creates an unfair sales advantage
- A passive affiliate page earns an estimated $2.5M annually
Business lessons from MrBeast's YouTube empire
Noah Kagan
October 13, 2021
Business models
8
Growth hacking
8
Case studies
7
- One north-star goal filters every hire, spend, and decision
- MrBeast reinvested every dollar back in — from day one
- Packaging is 50% of the product; he spends $10k per thumbnail
The business is the product: stop being product-focused to scale
Bill Gallagher
October 6, 2021
Business models
10
Processes & SOPs
6
- Loving your product is not a business strategy — the machine is.
- Subscription consumables turned a humidifier brand's crisis into recurring revenue.
- A technically superior SaaS product had zero customers willing to buy it.
How Care.com used data at every stage to scale
Masters of Scale
October 5, 2021
Business models
9
Case studies
8
Customer discovery
7
- Cheap, scrappy data beats expensive surveys at every early stage.
- Your personal problem is a starting point, not a scale blueprint.
- Serving both sides of a marketplace is a business imperative, not charity.
Bootstrappable businesses, selling as an introvert, and founder mental health
Startups For the Rest of Us
October 5, 2021
Business models
8
Content marketing
6
Resilience & grit
5
- Two-sided marketplaces and ad-supported products are almost impossible to bootstrap
- Introverts can close deals through content and warm emails — not cold outreach
- Founder mental health needs professional help, not just hustle-harder advice
Eight software business ideas backed by $100M in AppSumo sales data
Noah Kagan
September 29, 2021
Niche selection
9
MVP & prototyping
8
Business models
6
- Eight proven software categories drawn from $100M in real sales data
- Find a paying customer before writing a single line of code
- Build the manual service first — automate only what actually works
Warren Buffett's principles for business, management, and risk
Founders
September 2, 2021
Business models
9
Management
7
Cash flow management
5
- Choosing the right business matters more than how hard you row
- Leverage multiplied by a single zero always equals zero
- Avoid dumb decisions consistently; brilliance is not required
Wyndham Hotels: How a franchise model dominates economy lodging
Business Breakdowns
September 1, 2021
Business models
9
Unit economics
8
Case studies
5
- Franchise royalty stream held 80% margins even through COVID
- Economy hotels break even at 30% occupancy — luxury needs 50%+
- 89M loyalty members make Wyndham cheaper to join than going independent
Measure twice, cut once: SaaS holy grails
Startups For the Rest of Us
August 10, 2021
Business models
8
B2B sales
7
Exit strategy
5
- Not all decisions deserve equal deliberation—focus on permanent, irreversible ones.
- Expansion revenue and net negative churn are the holy grails of profitable SaaS.
- Enterprise sales require legal templates, clear pricing limits, and higher minimums.
Deborah Westphal on building human-centric businesses for an uncertain future
Bill Gallagher
August 4, 2021
Vision & mission
9
Culture building
8
Business models
6
- Shareholder primacy is being replaced by a broader stakeholder responsibility
- Ignoring downstream impacts — water, waste, supply chains — is no longer viable
- Businesses fixated on their product, not the problem, eventually run out of road
J.Crew's pivot to purpose: sustainability, resale, and reigniting brand passion
Masters of Scale
July 22, 2021
Business models
9
Branding
7
Community building
5
- Why J.Crew's biggest problem is customer neutrality, not awareness
- Madewell's resale platform grew from a million recycled jeans
- COVID flipped stores into experience channels, online into convenience
Naval Ravikant: how to build wealth and happiness on your own terms
Founders
July 13, 2021
Business models
8
Identity & self-belief
8
Productivity & habits
6
- Work that feels like play to you is impossible to compete with.
- Permissionless leverage — code and media — is where new fortunes are built.
- Happiness is a skill you choose and practise, not a circumstance.
How Facebook built and sustains its $100 billion advertising business
Business Breakdowns
June 30, 2021
Business models
9
Paid ads
7
Competitive analysis
6
- Facebook's self-reinforcing flywheel: data → targeting → ad spend → more data
- Only Google and Facebook can deliver scale, cost, and customer quality together
- The next platform shift after mobile is Facebook's deepest existential risk
Formula One: the business model behind the world's most global sport
Business Breakdowns
June 23, 2021
Business models
9
Unit economics
7
Case studies
6
- F1 earns $5 per fan; the NFL earns $150 — that gap is the opportunity
- Budget caps ended the spending arms race and made teams investable businesses
- Drive to Survive unlocked casual fans; real-time e-sport racing is next