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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Founder interviews
YouTube
How Noah Kagan built a $10M net worth across 20 businesses over 20 years
Noah Kagan
May 26, 2020
Founder interviews
10
Business models
7
20+ failed businesses before AppSumo finally made him rich
Gambit hit $30M revenue from a minimal page built in a weekend
Doubling down on one goal beats running three businesses at once
Content marketing
YouTube
How to grow a podcast to 2 million downloads: what actually works
Noah Kagan
May 21, 2020
Content marketing
9
Email marketing
7
Growth hacking
6
Being a guest on other podcasts is the single highest-leverage growth channel
Titles drive more downloads than celebrity guests — spend 20–30 minutes per episode on them
Build an email list first; podcast listeners are earned last, not first
Prospecting & outreach
YouTube
How to make $1,000 profit in 24 hours selling beef jerky
Noah Kagan
May 18, 2020
Prospecting & outreach
9
B2C sales
7
Business models
5
A basic budget reveals bulk and subscription sales are the only path to $1,000.
Active outreach — calls, texts, DMs — beats passive posting every time.
Get to your first dollar before obsessing over pricing or infrastructure.
Productivity & habits
YouTube
Energy management, the three selves, and the work-rest ratio
Noah Kagan
May 14, 2020
Productivity & habits
9
Resilience & grit
6
Recovery isn't the opposite of performance — it's the mechanism
Any strength overused becomes a liability; find its positive opposite
Under pressure, a survival self hijacks decisions — quieting the body restores the adult
How Gumroad cut costs, went remote, and grew to $700k MRR
Noah Kagan
May 12, 2020
Case studies
10
Processes & SOPs
7
Cash flow management
6
Burning $300k/month with staff and offices taught the wrong lessons
Profitability came from removing things, not adding them
Two metrics — creator volume and MRR — are all that matter
Productivity & habits
YouTube
How to protect your time from fake business gurus on YouTube
Noah Kagan
May 11, 2020
Productivity & habits
8
Identity & self-belief
5
Most business YouTubers profit by selling to you, not from real businesses.
Three red-flag phrases that expose a fraudster immediately.
Zig when others zag — read books no one else is reading.
Content marketing
YouTube
Building an audience and selling digital products as an independent creator
Noah Kagan
May 7, 2020
Content marketing
9
Bootstrapping
7
MVP & prototyping
6
Gumroad hit $700K MRR with zero marketing and no office.
Find customers before building the product — always.
Expect 10 years: the compounding curve is flat, then vertical.
How to grow a niche data site beyond SEO traffic
Noah Kagan
May 4, 2020
Email marketing
9
SEO
7
Business models
6
250k monthly visitors, 3k email signups — a fixable conversion failure
Google owns 90% of your traffic until you build an email list
Don't build a marketplace until you own the audience
Productivity & habits
YouTube
Using military after action reviews to build personal discipline
Noah Kagan
May 1, 2020
Productivity & habits
8
Resilience & grit
6
Two categories — sustain or improve — replace every self-help framework
A broken upbringing gives you more material to work with, not less
Downtime is preparation time: be ready to sprint when the door opens
Founder interviews
YouTube
Tim Kennedy on discipline, purpose, and building a life worth defending
Noah Kagan
April 30, 2020
Founder interviews
8
Resilience & grit
8
Identity & self-belief
6
Motivation always fails; discipline — not inspiration — drives consistent performance.
Military AAR framework: sort every experience into 'sustain' or 'improve', then act.
Preparation is the only real source of calm — in combat, crisis, or business.
Resilience & grit
YouTube
What a difficult ayahuasca experience taught about courage and self-discovery
Noah Kagan
April 28, 2020
Resilience & grit
8
Identity & self-belief
7
Running shirtless into the dark wasn't the failure — coming back was the point.
No one is coming to save you; the answers are already inside.
Any deliberate challenge works; ayahuasca is one tool, not the only one.
Facebook Ads Strategy for Growing an Email List
Noah Kagan
April 27, 2020
Paid ads
9
Conversion rate optimisation
8
Copywriting
6
Instagram Stories remarketing gets email sign-ups for half the cost of prospecting
Dark posts accumulate social proof across ad sets, directly lowering CPMs
Fix the landing page opt-in before scaling spend — low CPC with zero conversions is a page problem
How to grow a YouTube channel: a live audit and optimization walkthrough
Noah Kagan
April 24, 2020
Growth hacking
9
Content marketing
8
85–89% of subscribers come from video watch pages, not the channel page
Native uploads to LinkedIn and Instagram massively outperform shared YouTube links
Watch time beats views — optimise for it, not view counts
How to build and run an eight-figure business from scratch
Noah Kagan
April 21, 2020
Processes & SOPs
10
Productivity & habits
7
Hiring & recruitment
6
A 'figure filter' forces you to stop wasting time on small opportunities.
10x the one channel already working before starting anything new.
Expect ten years of hard work — pick a tidal wave market to make them count.
11 New Jobs Created by the Shift to Remote Work
Noah Kagan
April 20, 2020
Business models
8
Case studies
6
Behaviour change creates immediate service gaps anyone can monetise first.
Virtual graduation coordinators earn ~$5,000 per ceremony for technical setup.
Digital products on Gumroad and AppSumo need no inventory or shipping.