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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Hiring & recruitment
YouTube
Hiring for attitude: why undeveloped great teammates beat skilled bad ones
Noah Kagan
August 23, 2017
Hiring & recruitment
9
Culture building
5
The best hires are undeveloped people with great character, not top performers
Skilled bad teammates are mercenaries — useful contractors, destructive as employees
You can teach skills; you cannot teach someone to be a good teammate
Founder interviews
YouTube
How Nick Bare built a six-figure supplement brand while serving in the army
Noah Kagan
August 21, 2017
Founder interviews
9
Content marketing
7
Retention & loyalty
6
From 35k to 90k YouTube subscribers in three weeks with one niche video
Hit $10k/month revenue within 45 days of setting that goal
Handwritten thank-you notes from Korea drove word-of-mouth across military bases
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
You already have what it takes — just go do it
Noah Kagan
August 16, 2017
A 20-year-old told Kagan he wasn't impressive — and was right.
Successful people are not a different breed from you.
Stop seeking advice; you already have everything you need.
Content multiplication: repurpose what works to reach more customers
Noah Kagan
August 14, 2017
Stop creating new content — multiply what already performs.
One idea reformatted across channels reaches audiences you'd otherwise miss.
Delegate formats you dislike; focus only on what you do best.
How to build a proactive dashboard to grow your business
Noah Kagan
August 11, 2017
Processes & SOPs
8
Long-term planning
5
Track inputs you control, not outcomes you can't
Cut any activity that doesn't move your main goal
Assign weekly targets per person; mark green or red
How to get more YouTube views through discoverable content research
Noah Kagan
August 10, 2017
Growth hacking
10
Content marketing
7
70% of YouTube growth comes from suggested videos, not search
Find topics where high-view videos live on low-subscriber channels
Only 1 in 50 videos hits — but two breakouts can carry a whole channel
Five free marketing tactics to grow any business
Noah Kagan
August 4, 2017
Growth hacking
9
Content marketing
6
Referral programs
5
A blog compounds for years; paid ads vanish the moment you stop.
Referrals fail without two things: incentive and zero-friction lubrication.
Vendors you already pay will take your call — and may become customers.
Three tactics to grow YouTube subscribers faster
Noah Kagan
August 3, 2017
Social media
9
Content marketing
6
Your channel front page drives more subscribers than any in-video button.
Playlists boost session watch time, the metric YouTube actually rewards.
Simply asking viewers to subscribe is the most overlooked growth lever.
How to stop starting things and actually finish them
Noah Kagan
July 31, 2017
Goal setting
9
Productivity & habits
6
One goal beats many — splitting focus means nothing goes great
Know your reason before you start; it's what stops you quitting
Commit for just one quarter if long-term sacrifice feels too big
How Israel built a startup culture punching far above its weight
Noah Kagan
July 28, 2017
Niche selection
7
Culture building
6
Case studies
5
Military service gives every top recruit a real-world programming crash course.
Existential threat forced intelligence leverage — and created a tech powerhouse.
Radical directness cuts feedback loops that waste hours in Western workplaces.
How MeetEdgar reached $4M ARR using controllable quarterly goals
Noah Kagan
July 21, 2017
Processes & SOPs
8
Goal setting
6
Outcome goals leave teams unsure what to do each day
Set tactics your team fully controls, not results they hope for
Three department-level 'big rocks' per quarter drives $4M ARR
Hiring & recruitment
YouTube
Six lessons for rebuilding an eight-figure business from scratch
Noah Kagan
July 18, 2017
Hiring & recruitment
9
Management
8
Processes & SOPs
5
Hire band members, not rock stars — mavericks lose to teams
Board members who disagree with you are your most valuable asset
Real autonomy outperforms micromanagement — set the goal, then step back
Five emerging marketing channels founders can exploit now
Noah Kagan
July 14, 2017
Growth hacking
9
Social media
5
Platforms should bring pre-matched customers to you — stop doing segmentation yourself.
Exploit existing networks the way Airbnb used Craigslist and PayPal used eBay.
No clean channel exists yet for businesses to message customers one-to-one at scale.
Stop planning, start selling: how to launch a side hustle today
Noah Kagan
July 11, 2017
Niche selection
8
Prospecting & outreach
7
Motivation
6
Solve problems only when they actually appear, not upfront.
Your unfair advantage is what you already know or can access.
Your first product doesn't define your business — just start selling.
Why you should set bigger goals than you think possible
Noah Kagan
July 7, 2017
Goal setting
9
Motivation
7
Shooting for a billion makes the journey extraordinary regardless of outcome
Break any massive goal into daily increments to make it tractable
Higher targets produce higher results even when you fall short