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
Should you write a book? A framework for deciding
Noah Kagan
June 25, 2020
Identity & self-belief
8
Branding
7
Content marketing
5
No deep personal why means the book will defeat you.
Authors outrank founders in status — even with far less real-world impact.
Fear of identity change, not lack of information, stops most writers.
How to build your first email list from zero to 100 subscribers
Noah Kagan
June 24, 2020
Email marketing
9
Content marketing
7
Growth hacking
6
Each email subscriber is worth ~$1/month in predictable revenue
Social grows your audience; email is how you actually profit
Eight concrete tactics to get your first 100 subscribers today
Resilience & grit
YouTube
16 fastest-growing remote jobs in 2020 and how to land one
Noah Kagan
June 22, 2020
Resilience & grit
9
Identity & self-belief
7
Delegation
5
Do the work for free first — then ask to get paid.
Offline businesses moving online created 16 concrete job opportunities.
Avoid freelance marketplaces; direct outreach gets you paid far more.
Founder interviews
YouTube
Ali Abdaal on YouTube growth, team building, and passive income
Noah Kagan
June 18, 2020
Founder interviews
10
Content marketing
8
Hiring & recruitment
7
Start hyper-niche, then expand — the exact path to 600k subscribers
Document don't create: repeatable content beats original ideas every time
Why replying to comments may be your biggest growth differentiator
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
10 challenges to overcome fear and build self-reliance
Noah Kagan
June 17, 2020
Identity & self-belief
7
Deep work & focus
6
Silence and solitude unlock creativity most people never access.
Self-reliance beats waiting for someone else to fix your problems.
Ten concrete weekly challenges to disrupt comfort and grow faster.
Founder interviews
YouTube
How Noah Kagan built an eight-figure company from zero
Noah Kagan
June 15, 2020
Founder interviews
8
Resilience & grit
7
Content marketing
5
Kagan's net worth lagged his day-job salary for over a decade
Start a newsletter, live cheap, and keep your job as your investor
Compliment wealthy people without asking — value first, then connection
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
How Tom Bilyeu thinks about money and spending wealth
Noah Kagan
June 12, 2020
Getting rich didn't fix a single insecurity — money never does.
His real safety net is skill, not savings.
Wealth matters only as fuel to build what you believe in.
Founder interviews
YouTube
Tom Bilyeu on the meaning of life, desire, and building skills
Noah Kagan
June 11, 2020
Founder interviews
9
Identity & self-belief
7
Desire is built through repetition and embodiment, not discovered within.
Skills are the only wealth that can't be taken from you.
Progress is a biological requirement for happiness, not a lifestyle choice.
26 fast-growing business ideas backed by Google search data
Noah Kagan
June 10, 2020
Niche selection
8
Business models
6
All 26 ideas are validated by real Google Trends search growth.
Piggybacking on platforms like Shopify, Webflow, or TikTok beats creating demand.
The strongest opportunities serve people spending more time and money at home.
How to land big podcast guests using a give-first approach
Noah Kagan
June 8, 2020
PR & media
9
Prospecting & outreach
7
Give value — donate, promote, review — before you ever ask
Two months of authentic engagement landed Jeff Ross; days won't
Start small shows first, trade up to bigger names gradually
How to start a side business while keeping your day job
Noah Kagan
June 5, 2020
Business models
7
Identity & self-belief
6
Customer discovery
5
Stay employed until your side project earns real money first.
Expect zero meaningful profit for at least one year.
Ask what people with money spend time or money on — then do that.
24 business ideas over 20 years: lessons from building AppSumo
Noah Kagan
June 4, 2020
Case studies
10
Pivoting
6
Resilience & grit
5
20 years of mostly failures before AppSumo made real money
Your first dollar earned creates momentum nothing else can
Consistency and people matter more than any single idea
Getting your first 1,000 customers: a stage-by-stage playbook
Noah Kagan
June 1, 2020
Growth hacking
10
Influencer & partnerships
6
Product-market fit
5
Four distinct growth stages each demand a completely different marketing approach.
Giveaways and daily emails outperformed social posts and gamification every time.
Marketing cannot fix a bad product — diagnose the real problem first.
Strava's early days: low expectations, humble beginnings, big tailwinds
Noah Kagan
May 29, 2020
Origin stories
9
Goal setting
5
Success = Results minus Expectations: how sandbagging ambition unlocked freedom
Strava's segment feature came from one athlete's obsession with data visualisation
Facebook normalised sharing workouts publicly — without it, Strava couldn't exist
Founder interviews
YouTube
How Strava built a global fitness community by going inch wide, mile deep
Noah Kagan
May 28, 2020
Founder interviews
10
Niche selection
7
Product-market fit
6
Targeting one obsessive niche beats chasing a broad market every time.
Why saying no to good ideas is harder — and more important — than saying yes.
Making your free tier too good is a silent subscription killer.