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
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From homeless and broke to CEO: JT McCormick on work ethic and sacrifice
Noah Kagan
November 13, 2017
Founder interviews
10
Productivity & habits
7
Resilience & grit
6
Outworking everyone is a daily practice, not a personality trait.
Exact steps to rebuild wealth from scratch, starting at McDonald's.
Success hides the sacrifice — nobody counts the 18-hour days.
Conversion rate optimisation
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10 actionable tips to improve any eCommerce website
Noah Kagan
November 9, 2017
Conversion rate optimisation
9
Email marketing
7
Referral programs
5
98% of visitors won't buy — capture their email instead
Your best product page often beats a generic homepage
Vague taglines kill conversions; specific numbers and social proof don't
Resilience & grit
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Sexual harassment in tech: a female founder's perspective
Noah Kagan
November 3, 2017
Resilience & grit
7
Communication
6
Every woman who has raised money has encountered harassment.
Power imbalances turn flirtation into professional coercion.
Women maintain constant vigilance men rarely notice or understand.
A simple weekly planning system using calendar blocking and daily priorities
Noah Kagan
November 1, 2017
Time management
9
Productivity & habits
7
Deep work & focus
5
Scheduling tasks in your calendar beats writing them on a to-do list
Automate recurring commitments so your brain stays free for real work
Protect Wednesday–Thursday for deep work; keep Friday deliberately open
How Nomadic Matt built a seven-figure travel blog from scratch
Noah Kagan
October 27, 2017
Case studies
9
Content marketing
7
SEO
6
Growing outside your niche beats competing with the same travel audience
Spam sites taught the SEO skills that scaled a real business
Affiliates and owned products outlast sponsorships and text link fads
Content marketing
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How Simple Pickup built a multi-million dollar YouTube business
Noah Kagan
October 24, 2017
Content marketing
9
Case studies
7
Bootstrapping
5
Over-promoting content is a sign the content itself is the problem.
Remix proven viral trends into your niche instead of inventing from scratch.
Peak revenue hit $2.5M/year at 80% margin with just two videos per month.
How Urchin Software became Google Analytics
Noah Kagan
October 11, 2017
Origin stories
10
Pitching investors
6
9/11 killed their funding round — and created the market they needed
Google acquired them because 15% of its own advertisers relied on Urchin
Giving the tool away free flipped the whole industry to their side
How a college student built a music business working with Kendrick Lamar
Noah Kagan
October 4, 2017
Case studies
8
Business models
7
Unit economics
5
Door-to-door sales tactics built a college music promotion business
Promoters risk everything on ticket revenue; managers just take a cut
Lower-upside models have a far higher chance of actually working
Real Airbnb Economics: 10% Returns, Rising Risk, Declining Revenue
Noah Kagan
September 29, 2017
Unit economics
8
Business models
6
$80k deposit, 10% cash-on-cash return on paper.
Revenue fell 60% in two years as supply surged.
Opportunity cost kills it — better uses exist for time.
How Charisma on Command built a YouTube channel to 1.2M subscribers
Noah Kagan
September 27, 2017
Case studies
10
Growth hacking
6
One viral video beat every other platform they tried combined.
Being first to do celebrity charisma breakdowns created a lasting moat.
Go 1% past your comfort zone — compounding confidence beats big leaps.
Competitive analysis
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How SanDisk Competed Against Apple in the MP3 Market
Noah Kagan
September 6, 2017
Competitive analysis
10
Niche selection
9
Business models
6
SanDisk became the world's second-largest MP3 player behind Apple.
Microsoft's Zune failed by copying Apple's price and positioning.
Win by owning segments a dominant player ignores, not their turf.
Productivity & habits
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Five practical tips for waking up at 5am
Noah Kagan
September 1, 2017
Seven hours of focused work done before noon, distraction-free.
Financial accountability buddies make early rising commitments stick.
Not knowing what to do at 5am signals a lack of meaningful work.
Deep work & focus
YouTube
Three business lessons from a month working abroad
Noah Kagan
August 30, 2017
Deep work & focus
8
Delegation
7
Processes & SOPs
6
Saying no to most projects is what real focus looks like
Give employees a clear goal and get out of their way
A week away from your business exposes every hidden weakness
Entrepreneur salaries: the long, underpaid road most ignore
Noah Kagan
August 28, 2017
Bootstrapping
8
Motivation
6
Staying corporate would have paid more, cumulatively, than entrepreneurship
Equity is worth nothing until liquid — stop counting it
Low personal expenses are the real competitive advantage early on
Tim Ferriss on starting a business: keep it simple
Noah Kagan
August 25, 2017
Niche selection
8
Content marketing
6
Identity & self-belief
5
Build 1,000 true fans — not a broad, unfocused audience
Own your platform; don't depend on social networks
Changing your geography may be the fastest growth lever