Strategy: Long-term planning
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Long-term planning
Podcast
Good strategy starts with a clear diagnosis and an action agenda
Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth
January 21, 2024
Long-term planning
10
Competitive analysis
7
Deep work & focus
5
- A list of goals is not a strategy — diagnosis and coherent actions are.
- Focus is the fundamental source of power; diffusing effort destroys it.
- Call it an action agenda: state the problem, choose what's addressable, act.
Long-term planning
YouTube
Four CEO skills that scale a business to $10M revenue
Dan Martell
December 20, 2023
Long-term planning
9
Delegation
8
Branding
7
- Validate with payment, not compliments — words lie, money doesn't.
- A five-rung hiring ladder buys back your time to $1M.
- Prepared luck: a strong brand makes other people's opportunities flow to you.
Long-term planning
Podcast
Intel's AI strategy and the siliconomy with Pat Gelsinger
Masters of Scale
December 14, 2023
Long-term planning
9
AI strategy & adoption
7
Management
6
- Why Intel sees Nvidia's AI lead as only innings one and two
- Silicon supply chains are the new oil — geopolitics follow
- Ask your four: where AI must go in your core business now
Long-term planning
YouTube
A four-part annual planning process that actually sticks
Layla at ProcessDriven
December 1, 2023
Long-term planning
10
Goal setting
6
- Spending 50% of planning time just thinking prevents wasted months on wrong goals
- Target a year-end competency, not a revenue number — it captures more of what matters
- Revenue is reverse-engineered last; savings and expenses come first
Long-term planning
YouTube
What I would do differently if starting a business today
Silicon Valley Girl
November 23, 2023
Long-term planning
8
Motivation
6
Outsourcing & delegation
6
- Passion for the problem predicts persistence — trends don't.
- Define your ideal lifestyle before you decide how much to scale.
- Delegate from day one so the business can run without you.
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
Long-term planning
YouTube
Three GTM plateaus every SaaS company will hit and how to escape them
TK Kader
November 5, 2023
Long-term planning
9
Growth hacking
7
Niche selection
6
- Your network gives false product-market fit — strangers are the real test.
- Outbound and organic have hard ceilings; paid channels are the only exit.
- Stalled growth at scale almost always means a saturated ICP, not a broken product.
How to build a $100M startup in three years
Dan Martell
October 30, 2023
Business models
8
Long-term planning
8
Fundraising & VC
7
- CAC payback under 30 days lets you self-fund explosive growth
- Buyers pay multiples only for predictable, system-driven businesses
- Talent density — not founder genius — is what scales a company
Long-term planning
YouTube
When to say no to press and speaking appearances
Neil Patel
September 25, 2023
Long-term planning
8
PR & media
7
- Most press appearances don't drive ROI — only brand exposure.
- Ask three questions before accepting: audience, content fit, reach per episode.
- Saying no protects your scarcest resource: time and attention.
Long-term planning
YouTube
Strategic growth: acquisitions, AI adoption, and scaling decisions
Cameron Herold
September 20, 2023
Long-term planning
8
AI strategy & adoption
8
Hiring & recruitment
6
- Acquiring competitors beats organic growth past a certain scale
- Employees who refuse AI will be replaced by those who don't
- Pay 80th-percentile or executives will leave — equity rarely compensates
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.
Long-term planning
YouTube
How exponential technology is outpacing human intuition and corporate strategy
EO
August 3, 2023
Long-term planning
9
Business operating systems
7
Goal setting
5
- S&P 500 company lifespan has collapsed from 60 years to 12
- Being 3–8 years early is a feature, not a flaw — technology catches up
- Solve one problem you're passionate about; forget building an empire
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.
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
A structured framework for generating and vetting business ideas
Dylan Davis
July 17, 2023
Niche selection
9
MVP & prototyping
8
Long-term planning
6
- Start with a specific community you belong to, not a blank page
- 10x excitement in a small group beats 60% lukewarm interest
- 95% of ideas die in the writing phase — that's the point