Strategy: Long-term planning

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Long-term planning

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Four rules billionaires use to make failure near-impossible

Dan Martell November 4, 2024


Long-term planning 9
Goal setting 7
Risk management 6
  • Sales, networking, leadership, and vision are the highest-leverage foundational skills
  • Split any windfall 50/50: boring safe assets and high-risk bets
  • Short-term generosity and a 10-year horizon beat chasing quick wins

Long-term planning

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17 business principles every entrepreneur should know earlier

Dan Martell October 25, 2024


Long-term planning 10
Delegation 9
Pricing strategy 7
  • Choosing a growing industry beats working harder in a dying one
  • Raise prices every six months — stale pricing silently kills margins
  • 80% done by someone else is always better than 100% done by you

Long-term planning

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Why annual planning fails and a better 3-year quarterly system

Ryan Deiss October 24, 2024


Long-term planning 10
Project management 7
  • Annual planning is too long, too short, and done at peak optimism
  • 3-year cycles with quarterly milestones replace vague yearly goals
  • 90-day sprints with three metrics, pillars, and projects keep teams aligned

Long-term planning

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Founder regrets, delegation, agency vs. DIY, and ICP decisions at six to seven figures

Startups For the Rest of Us October 22, 2024


Long-term planning 9
Outsourcing & delegation 8
Delegation 5
  • Social media rarely drives SaaS revenue — drop it entirely
  • Hire channel specialists to get clean signal on what works
  • Charge enterprises enough to make the sales cycle worthwhile

Business models

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Eight levels of SaaS platform risk: a framework for founders

Startups For the Rest of Us October 15, 2024


Business models 9
Long-term planning 6
  • Shopify and Twitter are the highest risk: no replacement, total dependency.
  • Losing Google SEO rankings is more existential than any cloud provider outage.
  • No-code platforms carry hidden risk: no code export, can 10x pricing overnight.

Vision & mission

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Why every entrepreneur needs a vivid vision

Cameron Herold September 30, 2024


Vision & mission 10
Culture building 6
Long-term planning 5
  • A clear written vision lets strangers build exactly what you imagined.
  • Three years is the sweet spot — one year too close, ten too far.
  • Sharing the vision filters out misaligned employees before they cause drag.

Long-term planning

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EA's path to a billion gamers: AI, community, and the future of entertainment

Masters of Scale September 24, 2024


Long-term planning 10
Business models 9
AI strategy & adoption 6
  • AI cut a three-year dev cycle to make 11,000 real college athletes possible
  • EA's FIFA exit shows owning your brand beats sharing it
  • Gaming IP will rival Marvel within a decade — Wilson explains why

Long-term planning

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Risk, Intuition, and the Edge Between Prudence and Boldness

The Daily Stoic September 11, 2024


Long-term planning 8
Resilience & grit 6
  • Winner's tilt after success is as dangerous as tilt after losses.
  • Intuition is powerful — but only when you have genuine experience to draw on.
  • Being right about one contrarian bet can corrupt your judgment permanently.

Long-term planning

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Why the decisions we make today will shape humanity for centuries

Masters of Scale September 10, 2024


Long-term planning 9
Resilience & grit 6
Decision-making 5
  • Your brain treats your future self like a stranger.
  • AI is being built for ads, not planetary flourishing.
  • Three practices that make long-term thinking a daily habit.

Long-term planning

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Should you scale your business beyond hero status?

EOS Worldwide September 8, 2024


Long-term planning 8
Identity & self-belief 5
  • Building a $10M business already makes you a hero.
  • Act three — the biggest leap — is optional, not inevitable.
  • The real question: do you want to risk it all again?

Long-term planning

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How to run an effective annual strategy and planning session

Bill Gallagher August 20, 2024


Long-term planning 9
Management 6
  • Trying to facilitate your own planning session limits your thinking
  • Off-site location and shared experiences unlock bigger strategic ideas
  • Revisit BHAG, vivid vision, and seven strata before setting quarterly plans

Long-term planning

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PM craft: decision logs, unsell emails, and automating user research

Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth August 18, 2024


Long-term planning 9
Management 8
Customer discovery 7
  • Product sense is just decision-making under uncertainty — practice it deliberately.
  • Send candidates an honest 'unsell email' before they sign the offer.
  • Automate a stream of real customer calls using Gong, Zapier, and Calendly.

Vision & mission

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How to build and share a vivid vision for your company

Cameron Herold August 17, 2024


Vision & mission 10
Culture building 6
Long-term planning 6
  • Share your vision publicly — silence kills alignment faster than competition
  • Three years is the only timeframe that creates real tension without paralysis
  • Core values are only real if you hire and fire on them

Long-term planning

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How to conduct a gap analysis to close organisational shortfalls

HR Party of One August 6, 2024


Long-term planning 9
Processes & SOPs 7
  • Gaps found after deadlines are gaps you can no longer fix
  • Four gap types: market, strategic, profit, and skills
  • A four-step process turns findings into a concrete action plan

Competitive analysis

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Five essential questions to craft a winning strategy

Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth July 25, 2024


Competitive analysis 10
Long-term planning 7
Business models 6
  • Answer five interconnected questions to build defensible competitive advantage through integrated choice-making.
  • Only two sustainable ways to win: lowest cost or differentiated—middle ground means competitors bully you indefinitely.
  • Multifaceted capabilities and management systems create moats competitors won't attempt to replicate.

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