Strategy: Long-term planning
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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
Long-term planning
YouTube
Growing a business during a sales slump with international expansion
Neil Patel
July 13, 2023
Long-term planning
9
Unit economics
8
Prospecting & outreach
6
- New markets start at $0 — any deal beats a shrinking domestic base.
- NP Digital grew international revenue 74% by opening nine regions in five months.
- Repeated promotions at competitor firms beat interview self-promotion every time.
Long-term planning
YouTube
Five lessons from billionaire mentors that shaped one founder's career
Dan Martell
June 12, 2023
Long-term planning
8
Management
6
Motivation
5
- Naval's four Cs of leverage: code, capital, content, collaboration
- HubSpot paused 18 months of growth to fix product — and won
- Passion isn't what makes it easier; it's what stops you quitting
Long-term planning
YouTube
Why podcasters should stop monetizing and chase a bigger market
Neil Patel
June 3, 2023
Long-term planning
9
Content marketing
7
Fundraising & VC
5
- Free content plus a giant TAM beats podcast ad revenue every time
- 0.1% of a $100B market dwarfs 50% of a $1M market
- Trade ads for equity in fast-growing companies instead of cash
Long-term planning
YouTube
How to scale a business through people, content, and honest self-awareness
GaryVee
May 26, 2023
Long-term planning
9
Hiring & recruitment
9
Content marketing
7
- Your expansion ceiling is set by loyalty, not market size.
- Remote work is quietly crippling junior employees' development.
- Content is the main dish — posting once a week proves you don't believe it.
Long-term planning
YouTube
Vlogging is coming back: why daily documenting still wins
GaryVee
March 1, 2023
Long-term planning
8
Productivity & habits
6
Content marketing
5
- COVID paused vlogs — documenting over creating still wins
- Speed up daily micro-actions; slow down on big life goals
- AI disrupts like tractors did — new jobs always follow
Long-term planning
YouTube
How to grow a small business in an uncertain economy
GaryVee
February 15, 2023
Long-term planning
8
Growth hacking
6
Hiring & recruitment
5
- Tough times transfer clients from weak competitors to strong ones.
- Word of mouth can build millions — but only ambition sets the ceiling.
- Staying on the job site is the #1 growth killer for field-service owners.
Long-term planning
YouTube
Ten mistakes first-time SaaS founders make and how to avoid them
TK Kader
January 15, 2023
Long-term planning
8
Hiring & recruitment
7
Processes & SOPs
6
- Go-to-market must start in parallel with product, not after.
- An empty seat beats a low performer who drags the team down.
- Map every customer touchpoint from day one — renewals shouldn't surprise you.
Long-term planning
YouTube
How to set company goals from a three-year Vivid Vision
Cameron Herold
December 28, 2022
Long-term planning
9
Management
6
- Annual goals should flow from a three-year written Vivid Vision
- Prioritise employee satisfaction over revenue when setting goals
- One strategic thrust per year prevents execution from spreading thin
Long-term planning
YouTube
Three principles for annual SaaS business planning
TK Kader
December 18, 2022
Long-term planning
9
Funnels
6
Business models
5
- A 12-month data review crushes recency bias before you plan
- Diagnosing market, product, or GTM tells you where to focus
- ICP, manifesto, and Broadway show are the three GTM pillars
Long-term planning
Podcast
Paul Graham's core ideas on wealth, design, and making great things
Founders
November 17, 2022
Long-term planning
9
Deep work & focus
8
Design thinking
7
- Wealth is whatever people want — technology multiplies how much you can create
- Relentlessness wins: unseen details accumulate into something stunning
- Small teams beat big companies by making truly great products, not adequate ones
How Zillow stays the course when the housing market turns
Masters of Scale
September 22, 2022
Pivoting
9
Long-term planning
9
Culture building
5
- Why chasing every market shift leaves you behind when it recovers
- Zillow killed iBuying — and partnered out the risk instead
- One-click home touring doesn't exist yet — Zillow is building it
Long-term planning
YouTube
Starting a profitable business during an economic downturn
Silicon Valley Girl
July 21, 2022
Long-term planning
9
Cash flow management
8
Automation & tools
5
- Founder enthusiasm matters more than economic timing.
- Six months of zero-revenue runway saved a real company during COVID.
- Downturns hit large burn-rate companies hardest — small frugal businesses can win.
Long-term planning
Podcast
Twelve lessons from 200+ company stories: the Acquired playbook
Acquired
June 20, 2022
Long-term planning
8
Case studies
8
Resilience & grit
6
- Sequoia's Apple exit at 40x was the single biggest investing mistake ever
- Nvidia survived by shipping broken chips and telling developers to deal with it
- Scale up or niche down — the internet crushes everything caught in the middle
Long-term planning
Podcast
How Moderna built its mRNA platform by treating risk as a discipline
Masters of Scale
May 24, 2022
Long-term planning
9
Case studies
7
Management
6
- Stéphane accepted a 5% success chance because the upside was permanent.
- Building the mRNA OS first meant saying no to VCs and early IPO.
- Pharma avoids risk by default — Moderna made risk-taking a cultural principle.