Noah Kagan
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Noah Kagan shares practical lessons on entrepreneurship, growth, marketing, and CEO decision-making drawn from building and scaling profitable businesses.
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Identity & self-belief
YouTube
Building kindness as a practice, not a personality trait
Noah Kagan
October 11, 2020
Identity & self-belief
7
Public speaking
6
3,000 people walked past a crying woman. Not one stopped.
Nice is reactive; kindness is proactive — and that gap is learnable.
One man sent 6,000 postcards. His daughters remembered nothing else.
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
Ten years of therapy: lessons, frameworks, and when to go
Noah Kagan
October 7, 2020
Identity & self-belief
9
Work-life balance
6
Resilience & grit
5
Therapy works best when you bring specific problems, not open topics.
Good therapists reflect your behaviour back — they never tell you what to do.
Fulfilment isn't at the next level; it's already available right now.
Productivity & habits
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Nine business and life lessons from mountain biking
Noah Kagan
October 5, 2020
Productivity & habits
9
Resilience & grit
7
Why practising deliberately beats just playing the game
First time hard, second time easy — fear shrinks the moment you act
Smile at the suffering: reframe hard work as something to lean into
Five management principles from Maverick that scaled AppSumo to $30M
Noah Kagan
September 30, 2020
Management
9
Delegation
7
Business operating systems
5
Let employees set their own goals — owners outperform assignees
Removing rules unlocks innovation bureaucracy quietly kills
Step away from your business to find where it breaks
Resilience & grit
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Ten mistakes first-time entrepreneurs make and how to avoid them
Noah Kagan
September 23, 2020
Resilience & grit
8
Prospecting & outreach
7
Customer discovery
6
Find paying customers before building anything — always.
Your day job is your investor; don't quit until $1k/month.
Courses and trending niches are procrastination in disguise.
Automation & tools
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Five business apps running an eight-figure company (and three to avoid)
Noah Kagan
September 14, 2020
Automation & tools
9
Tech stack & software
5
Metabase gives non-technical founders database visibility — free.
Notion gets a rare honest pan: Google Docs does the job cheaper.
Own your community; Facebook and Slack can pull the rug anytime.
Customer discovery
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How to reach one million users by staying customer-first
Noah Kagan
September 8, 2020
Customer discovery
9
MVP & prototyping
7
Pivoting
6
Get customers before you build anything — validate demand first
Wrong success metric drove a million signups who never came back
Five-step customer-first framework for finding product-market fit
Prospecting & outreach
YouTube
How to get your first customer for any business idea
Noah Kagan
September 2, 2020
Prospecting & outreach
8
Content marketing
7
MVP & prototyping
6
Build nothing until three real people hand you money first.
Text beats platform messages — direct contact converts faster.
48-hour deadline forces action and kills over-preparation.
Content marketing
YouTube
How to upgrade your YouTube audio and video on a budget
Noah Kagan
August 31, 2020
Content marketing
7
Automation & tools
6
Upgrade audio first — before lighting, before camera
Two free wins: declutter background, face a window
Four setups compared live from phone to professional rig
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
Eight habits for daily happiness from a naturally content person
Noah Kagan
August 26, 2020
Identity & self-belief
9
Productivity & habits
7
Most unhappiness is self-inflicted by consuming the wrong things
Name the cause of a bad feeling — it stops the spiral instantly
Blunt, immediate communication prevents small friction becoming resentment
Productivity & habits
YouTube
A practical four-step system to break dopamine-driven procrastination
Noah Kagan
August 19, 2020
Productivity & habits
9
Deep work & focus
7
A 24-hour screen-free detox resets your baseline and restores perspective.
Removing notification badges and sounds puts you back in control of rewards.
Gate leisure behind real work to make dopamine intentional, not automatic.
Hiring & recruitment
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How to find and work with the right co-founder
Noah Kagan
August 17, 2020
Hiring & recruitment
9
Management
6
Equity & cap tables
5
Start alone first — momentum makes co-founder recruitment far easier
Shared vision is non-negotiable; disagreements on tactics are fine
Equity is permanent — treat co-founder selection like a marriage, not a date
Resilience & grit
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How the law of 100 stops you quitting too early
Noah Kagan
August 12, 2020
Resilience & grit
9
Productivity & habits
7
Commit to 100 reps before judging results — ever.
Quitting early is a data problem, not a motivation problem.
Nine concrete tactics to stay consistent until 100.
Lessons on ambition and craft from a night at Jamie Foxx's mansion
Noah Kagan
August 10, 2020
Case studies
9
Motivation
7
One public Hail Mary on stage landed an artist a record deal
Success hides the couch-sleeping sacrifice that precedes it
Proximity to the right people is a deliberate strategic choice
Resilience & grit
YouTube
Eight steps to rebuild income and momentum from zero
Noah Kagan
August 6, 2020
Resilience & grit
7
Cash flow management
6
Prospecting & outreach
5
Stabilise cash first — bill stress kills the space to think clearly
Bring proof of work to job applications; most candidates bring nothing
Start building an audience now — it takes years to compound