Strategy: Pivoting
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Business operating systems
YouTube
Why most business leaders harvest instead of grow
Alex M H Smith
May 14, 2026
Business operating systems
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Pivoting
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- Creating value and collecting value are fundamentally different activities
- Every harvest erodes the asset — replanting is non-negotiable, not optional
- Optimising funnels and copying competitors is harvesting a crop that hasn't grown yet
Be More Pirate: three lessons on reputation, disruption, and flat teams
Business Book Club
May 11, 2026
Pivoting
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Branding
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Management
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- Pirates built the world's first super brand 150 years before Coca-Cola.
- Piracy always reveals demand the market hasn't caught up with yet.
- Removing hierarchy can make your business 30% more efficient.
Divesting distractions: how EOS Worldwide returned to its core mission
EOS Worldwide
May 5, 2026
Pivoting
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Case studies
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Management
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- Building their own software nearly derailed the entire business.
- 870+ implementers are a mission — not a sales channel to monetise.
- Back-to-basics is never done; distraction always returns.
Business operating systems
YouTube
How EOS Worldwide killed its software business and reset for growth
EOS Worldwide
May 4, 2026
Business operating systems
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Pivoting
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Management
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- Chasing software multiples nearly destroyed a profitable franchise business
- A single board meeting data point made the right path obvious
- Letting 38 people go in one day was the price of realignment
How to get rich in the AI shift: offense over defense
Dan Martell
April 23, 2026
Pivoting
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AI strategy & adoption
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Bootstrapping
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- AI is replacing people, departments, and entire business categories right now
- Disrupt your own workflows with AI before a competitor does it for you
- The real money is in outcomes AI made possible, not tools AI made cheap
How Yoon found a winning EdTech idea after eight pivots
EO
March 9, 2026
Pivoting
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Customer discovery
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Founder interviews
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- A cancer diagnosis at 18 became his startup decision filter
- Eight pivots failed for lack of founder-market fit, not market fit
- A Figma mockup — never deployed — landed Pensieve's first customer
Six business beliefs to unlearn if you want to grow
Dan Martell
March 2, 2026
Pivoting
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Goal setting
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MVP & prototyping
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- Acting messy beats planning — customer feedback is the only real plan.
- Copy companies at your stage, not Fortune 500 playbooks you can't afford.
- Passion without a market is just an expensive hobby — love the problem.
When to quit your day job, equity splits, AI feasibility risk, and low-price plans
Startups For the Rest of Us
February 17, 2026
Pivoting
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Fundraising & VC
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MVP & prototyping
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- Emotional runway runs out before money does — motivation is the real constraint
- AI-dependent startups carry technology risk most SaaS founders never face
- A high-churn cheap plan quietly destroys your metrics and valuation
4 Steps to Growing Your Business Through a Mini Merger
KeyPersonOfInfluence
January 8, 2026
Pivoting
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Fundraising & VC
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Management
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- One acquisition can add 20–30% revenue growth in a single day.
- Relative valuations — not formal appraisals — are enough to structure the deal.
- Personal brand as a key person of influence makes deals happen effortlessly.
How incumbents miss disruption and what leaders can do about it
Coaching for Leaders
December 1, 2025
Pivoting
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Business models
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Management
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- Of 4,000 carriage makers, only one survived by redefining its business as mobility.
- Companies see disruption coming but are structurally disincentivised to act.
- Innovation theater and real innovation are not the same — measure by customer delivery.
Plateaued B2C app, SOC 2 timing, and open source IP: listener Q&A
Startups For the Rest of Us
November 25, 2025
Pivoting
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Fundraising & VC
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Processes & SOPs
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- Autopilot isn't real — flat businesses decline within 6–18 months.
- Don't pursue SOC 2 until you're actually losing deals without it.
- Open source doesn't build moats; marketing and positioning do.
How to pivot your business without losing the audience you built
StoryBrand With Donald Miller
November 17, 2025
Pivoting
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Branding
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Communication
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- Stay in your lane longer than feels comfortable — until you're known.
- Ask 'am I bored or have I earned this?' before any pivot.
- One strong offer with full attention beats two half-supported ones.
AI go-to-market, pivoting, and early hiring for founders
Y Combinator
October 21, 2025
Pivoting
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AI strategy & adoption
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Hiring & recruitment
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- Automate-rate matters more to investors than revenue in AI firms
- Pivot when conviction dies, not just when growth stalls
- Hire only when specific functions are visibly breaking
How to pivot a startup without the three common mistakes
The Science of Scaling
October 2, 2025
Pivoting
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Product-market fit
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- Five distinct pivot types — most founders only know one or two
- Sunk cost assets from the old product will handicap your new direction
- Segment pre- and post-pivot data to tell investors the right story
Blitzscaling: when it works, when it fails, and what the science of scaling adds
The Science of Scaling
September 11, 2025
Pivoting
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Fundraising & VC
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Long-term planning
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- Blitzscaling is macro-driven: boom cycles inflate it, crashes kill it, AI is 1999 again.
- First-mover advantage is overrated — most category winners were second or later entrants.
- Science of scaling complements blitzscaling by defining readiness and precise growth rate.