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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Automation & tools
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Three Google Sheets formulas every startup should know
Noah Kagan
July 5, 2017
Automation & tools
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Tech stack & software
5
IF, VLOOKUP, and QUERY replace most manual data wrangling instantly
VLOOKUP lets you pull any field from a row by lookup value
QUERY aggregates spreadsheet data like a lightweight database
Content marketing
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How to grow a podcast audience using NPR's production principles
Noah Kagan
June 30, 2017
Content marketing
9
Copywriting
7
Hook listeners in the first minute or lose them forever.
Vulnerability and challenge-resolution stories drive audience growth.
NPR records 10 hours of tape to produce 3 minutes of finished audio.
How AppSumo wrote email copy that earned $9,564 in 24 hours
Noah Kagan
June 28, 2017
Email marketing
9
Closing techniques
7
Targeting a hyper-specific audience beats writing for everyone
Great copy ignores definite buyers and targets fence-sitters only
Humour is a bonus — the only goal is to sell
Long-term planning
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Focus less, grow faster: the cost of spreading too thin
Noah Kagan
June 23, 2017
Long-term planning
8
Deep work & focus
7
Saying yes to too many ideas stalls growth more than it accelerates it
Cutting to a few core products doubled the business faster than new launches
Your best strategic insight often surfaces as a joke or passing comment
Influencer & partnerships
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Building real relationships by leading with genuine value
Noah Kagan
June 21, 2017
Influencer & partnerships
8
Prospecting & outreach
6
Sponsor early-stage creators before they're famous — that's when relationships form
Ask what someone actually needs; then deliver it before asking for anything
Value isn't always money — a thoughtful gift beats a coffee offer every time
How Onnit uses clinical trials to validate its supplements
Noah Kagan
June 16, 2017
Branding
8
Iteration & feedback loops
7
Testimonials & social proof
5
Independent peer-reviewed trials are the only way to earn real credibility
Onnit dropped a major testosterone claim when their own study disproved it
Supplements aren't drugs — the goal is taking healthy people from good to great
How to build a great business partnership from scratch
Noah Kagan
June 14, 2017
Communication
8
Business models
5
One blunt negotiation line replaced all spin with radical honesty.
Value beats hours: respect what each partner brings, not time logged.
50/50 splits fail when partners don't project long-term contribution.
Identity & self-belief
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Aubrey Marcus on Questioning Rules and Living on Your Own Terms
Noah Kagan
June 13, 2017
Identity & self-belief
8
Resilience & grit
6
Evaluate rules by harm to self, others, and environment.
Question every automatic 'no' — trace it to its source.
Ecstasis and evidence beat inherited moral prohibition.
Long-term planning
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Five reasons your business feels slow and how to fix it
Noah Kagan
June 9, 2017
Long-term planning
7
Goal setting
6
Hiring & recruitment
5
Most businesses aren't slow — founders just lack measurements to know
Stopping tactics that worked is the fastest way to kill growth
Weak team members set the ceiling for the whole company
Productivity & habits
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How to reach inbox zero and stop email controlling your day
Noah Kagan
June 7, 2017
Productivity & habits
9
Deep work & focus
7
90% of emails need no response and can be ignored safely
Batching email into one block beats checking it all day
Filters and site blockers eliminate inbox distraction at the source
Founder interviews
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Building a $1 email subscriber system with Facebook ads
Noah Kagan
June 2, 2017
Founder interviews
10
MVP & prototyping
7
Growth hacking
6
Ask for the email only after warming visitors with cheap article traffic.
Mobile-only ads cut costs by half versus desktop or Instagram.
Audit sign-up quality — wrong audience inflates list, kills engagement.
Three tactics for better public speaking
Noah Kagan
May 30, 2017
Public speaking
9
Resilience & grit
6
Lead with a counterintuitive claim to instantly hook any audience
Give audiences an action during your talk — results create recall
Stories are remembered; slides and bullet points are not
Deep work & focus
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Warren Buffett's six counterintuitive investing principles
Noah Kagan
May 22, 2017
Deep work & focus
8
Productivity & habits
6
90% of Buffett's wealth sits in just 10 companies
Be greedy when others panic — timing contrarianism beats market timing
Patience turned a winning trade into a $7,000 loss when sold early
Outsourcing & delegation
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How to hire a virtual assistant that actually works for you
Noah Kagan
May 19, 2017
Outsourcing & delegation
9
Delegation
6
Delegating low-value tasks pays off if your time is worth more
Build an SOP before hiring — most assistant failures start there
Expect to screen 100 candidates to find one genuinely great hire
Identity & self-belief
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How Ryan Holiday thinks about work, fear, and wanting less
Noah Kagan
May 12, 2017
Identity & self-belief
8
Deep work & focus
6
Write crappy pages anyway — the gap between vision and output never closes.
Jealousy is a compass: most envied things cost $100 on Craigslist.
Chase discomfort in your career, not on a roller coaster.