Strategy: Long-term planning
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Scaling Up summit takeaways: relationships, wisdom, and sales playbooks
Bill Gallagher
November 13, 2019
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Processes & SOPs
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- Discounting is the tax you pay for being average — price disappears when connection is real.
- 75% of Millennials want a mentor; only 2% have one — wisdom sits idle in most orgs.
- Fewer than 10% of sales teams have a playbook; improvisation is the costly default.
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How Bill Gates identified and accelerated computing's inflection points
Masters of Scale
November 7, 2019
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Case studies
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Business models
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- Spotting an inflection point is worthless without actively accelerating it
- IBM's brutal quality standards made Microsoft — pick your toughest customers
- The internet nearly killed Windows; Gates pivoted by burning his own standards
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How to set KPIs and goals for early-stage startups
Y Combinator
August 1, 2019
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Product-market fit
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Unit economics
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- Why email signups and MAU are traps that mislead founders
- Revenue almost always beats active users as your primary metric
- 5–10% week-over-week growth separates real startups from the rest
Long-term planning
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Charlie Munger's investing and life principles from The Tao of Charlie Munger
Founders
June 30, 2019
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Cash flow management
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Deep work & focus
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- Patience and cash hoarding beat diversification — always wait for the crash.
- Holding a great business forever compounds wealth; selling early trades away the best years.
- Reading biographies beats finance textbooks; deep focus beats multitasking.
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Should you move your startup to Silicon Valley?
Y Combinator
June 14, 2019
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Bootstrapping
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- Silicon Valley's network density accelerates company-building in ways nothing else matches.
- Nearby startup success creates pressure that compresses years of progress into months.
- Stay if customers or structural advantages are already where you are.
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Balancing efficiency and serendipity for business innovation
Bill Gallagher
April 10, 2019
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Deep work & focus
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AI strategy & adoption
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- AI optimisation locks you into the past; markets move faster than patterns.
- Hiring for proven fit breeds homogeneity that can't adapt to change.
- Taking harder notes, not easier ones, produces deeper understanding.
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How to find disruptive strategy using the IDEAS process
Bill Gallagher
March 13, 2019
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Competitive analysis
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Culture building
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- Disruptive ideas look crazy at first — that's what protects them
- 70% of transformative innovations came from employees, not founders
- A window firm 10x'd by acquiring its own distributors for exclusivity
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Why your medium-term goals may be limiting your growth
Bill Gallagher
January 2, 2019
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Goal setting
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Management
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- Three-to-five year goals create false certainty and cap your ambition
- Strip middle management in a downturn — it costs 30% of payroll
- Admitting you lack the answer unlocks your team's full problem-solving power
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Six practical strategies to plan your best business year
Noah Kagan
November 29, 2017
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Goal setting
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- T3B3 peer feedback surfaces blind spots self-assessment always misses.
- One singular north-star metric aligned Sumo's entire company each year.
- Monthly milestone mapping turns an annual goal into an executable route.
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Focus less, grow faster: the cost of spreading too thin
Noah Kagan
June 23, 2017
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Deep work & focus
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- Saying yes to too many ideas stalls growth more than it accelerates it
- Cutting to a few core products doubled the business faster than new launches
- Your best strategic insight often surfaces as a joke or passing comment
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Five reasons your business feels slow and how to fix it
Noah Kagan
June 9, 2017
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Goal setting
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Hiring & recruitment
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- Most businesses aren't slow — founders just lack measurements to know
- Stopping tactics that worked is the fastest way to kill growth
- Weak team members set the ceiling for the whole company
Business operating systems
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Strategy vs tactics: a time-horizon framework for scaling up
Bill Gallagher
February 5, 2017
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- Strategy lives beyond one year; tactics live inside it
- Purpose, BHAG, values, and core customer form the full strategic core
- Weekly and daily rhythms keep execution aligned with long-term strategy
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How to grow a business from seven to eight figures
Noah Kagan
February 2, 2017
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Processes & SOPs
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Hiring & recruitment
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- Existing customers can 2–5x your revenue without new acquisition
- Never compromise on a hire — one bad player degrades the whole team
- Raise prices to match your best customers, not your average ones