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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Ten websites to find customers and launch a side hustle today
Noah Kagan
April 14, 2020
Growth hacking
8
Business models
6
Your customers already exist on platforms built to find them.
Sendfox and Substack let you monetise an audience with zero upfront cost.
Clarity.fm books a business expert every 90 seconds — be one.
Cash flow management
YouTube
How freelancers and small businesses can survive a recession
Noah Kagan
April 9, 2020
Cash flow management
8
Prospecting & outreach
8
Niche selection
6
Build 12–24 months of cash reserves before you need them
Offline businesses are desperate for help going digital — that's your opening
Avoid generic freelance platforms; get close to companies that are actively growing
23 side hustles you can start today with no upfront cost
Noah Kagan
April 8, 2020
Niche selection
7
Motivation
6
Start free, ask for a referral — momentum follows action
Take 5% of savings found reviewing anyone's bills
Sell people's unwanted stuff on eBay and split the money
AI strategy & adoption
YouTube
10 Practical Tips for Running a Better Zoom Webinar
Noah Kagan
April 7, 2020
AI strategy & adoption
9
Long-term planning
7
Communication
5
Skip boring openers; engineer participation from the first second.
The Lion King effect: live peer results inspire the whole room.
Always close with one specific CTA while enthusiasm peaks.
How to think about financial crises, markets, and investing with Aswath Damodaran
Noah Kagan
April 2, 2020
Valuation
9
Long-term planning
7
Resilience & grit
6
COVID is the first total global economic shutdown — all prior playbooks are useless.
A company's balance sheet determines its post-crisis fate, not what happens next.
Your biggest investing enemy looks back at you in the mirror every morning.
11 Business Pivot Ideas to Survive the Coronavirus Recession
Noah Kagan
March 31, 2020
Pivoting
9
Iteration & feedback loops
6
Repackage skills for online delivery — your customers still want the experience.
DIY kits turn restaurants and venues into at-home product businesses.
Dormant email lists are assets: cross-promote if you have nothing to sell.
Long-term planning
YouTube
Recession business strategy: offense and defense in uncertain times
Noah Kagan
March 26, 2020
Long-term planning
9
Cash flow management
7
Growth hacking
6
Pre-set two revenue-drop scenarios before you need them.
Track leading indicators daily — not last month's revenue.
Downturns create permanent winners; position now for the recovery.
12 tactics to recession-proof an e-commerce business
Noah Kagan
March 25, 2020
Growth hacking
8
Cash flow management
7
Referral programs
5
Assume 30% revenue loss and build your plan around surviving it.
Cheap ad CPCs mean now is the time to spend, not pull back.
Turn customers into a sales team with 80% referral commissions.
15+ business ideas to start during a crisis
Noah Kagan
March 24, 2020
Pivoting
9
Business models
7
Pivot existing assets — skills, spaces, customers — into new formats fast.
Closed venues become packaging hubs, studios, or remote-service launchpads.
Cost-cutting consulting and DIY kits are among the highest-leverage moves.
Cash flow management
YouTube
Recession-proofing your business: stash cash and prepare for a long downturn
Noah Kagan
March 22, 2020
Cash flow management
9
Long-term planning
6
Plan for 20 months of cash runway, not weeks.
Revenue pain lags — cut costs before the dominoes reach you.
Position now for the recovery, not just survival today.
How to be a winner during economic disruption
Noah Kagan
March 20, 2020
Pivoting
8
Resilience & grit
7
Wealth is being redistributed right now — position yourself to receive it.
Essential businesses survive; non-essentials get cut — know which side you're on.
Pre-plan action/trigger decisions to remove emotion from crisis choices.
Recession-proofing your business and life during a crisis
Noah Kagan
March 18, 2020
Pivoting
8
Cash flow management
7
Growth hacking
6
Society has permanently changed — business will never return to normal
Seven concrete sectors where new businesses can be built right now
Prove your ROI before your boss asks, or risk being cut first
How to get press and build media relationships that actually work
Noah Kagan
March 6, 2020
PR & media
10
Prospecting & outreach
6
Why cold pitching fails — and what to do months before asking
A repeatable system that earned 2,000+ media placements
Backlinks from press are worth what SEO pros pay thousands for
Ten marketing tactics for growing your online business in 2020
Noah Kagan
January 31, 2020
Email marketing
9
Growth hacking
8
Content marketing
6
Your real audience is far smaller than your follower count suggests.
Facebook groups offer organic reach that pages and ads no longer provide.
Free tools and templates outperform blog posts as lead-generation assets.
How Morning Brew built a million-subscriber email newsletter from scratch
Noah Kagan
May 2, 2019
Case studies
9
Email marketing
8
Growth hacking
7
Guerrilla tactics that got Morning Brew's first thousand subscribers
Paid ads drove 60% of growth — but only after the flywheel was proven
Charging per unique open aligns incentives and attracted Fortune 500 advertisers