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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Identity & self-belief
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Overcoming insecurity about hair loss: seven practical steps
Noah Kagan
March 20, 2017
Identity & self-belief
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Resilience & grit
6
Name your insecurity out loud — it loses power immediately
Embrace the shaved head or accept the fade; the middle destroys you
You notice your flaws far more than anyone else ever does
Identity & self-belief
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Being a CEO Is Overrated: Why You Should Be an Employee Instead
Noah Kagan
March 17, 2017
Identity & self-belief
9
Founder interviews
5
Four P's — Purpose, Product, People, Pay — matter more than ownership.
Entrepreneurship adds a fifth P: Problems that employees never face.
Take the job if it delivers all four P's at your price.
Productivity & habits
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Five steps to become a faster learner at anything
Noah Kagan
March 13, 2017
Playing around with a skill is not the same as learning it.
Real learning only starts when you apply it for real stakes.
Teaching what you know is the step most people skip.
Four questions to validate and start any business
Noah Kagan
March 6, 2017
Niche selection
7
Prospecting & outreach
6
Processes & SOPs
5
Validate that people will pay before building an audience
Constraint is creativity: make money this week, not someday
One weekly habit compounds more than occasional bursts of effort
Hiring & recruitment
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A four-round hiring process that filters candidates automatically
Noah Kagan
March 3, 2017
Hiring & recruitment
9
Automation & tools
7
A vague job description repels great candidates before they apply.
Automate round two so you never manually review unqualified applicants.
Filter with binary yes/no criteria first — cut slow typists and instruction-ignorers.
Automation & tools
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Slack productivity tips: 17 shortcuts and settings to save time
Noah Kagan
February 27, 2017
Automation & tools
8
Productivity & habits
6
Send direct messages from any channel with a single shortcut
Turn off all notifications and check Slack on your own terms
Use Slackbot as a persistent scratchpad and built-in reminder tool
Three steps to get unstuck when your business stops feeling rewarding
Noah Kagan
February 24, 2017
Motivation
10
Work-life balance
7
Delegation
6
Viewing your own company as an outside advisor resets perspective.
Hiring people who love the tasks you hate frees you immediately.
Re-adding the work you once loved is what restores momentum.
Productivity & habits
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Five iPhone habits that reduce mindless scrolling and save time
Noah Kagan
February 20, 2017
Delete all social apps except one — then log out of that one
Moving icons around breaks autopilot and makes choices conscious
Audio dictation and horizontal drawing are faster than typing
Converting email subscribers into paying customers
Noah Kagan
February 17, 2017
Email marketing
9
Conversion rate optimisation
6
Educating subscribers builds trust that makes them buy.
Persistent follow-up wins — buyers act when they're ready.
Survey your list to tailor your offer to what they want.
Long-term planning
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How to grow a business from seven to eight figures
Noah Kagan
February 2, 2017
Long-term planning
9
Processes & SOPs
8
Hiring & recruitment
7
Existing customers can 2–5x your revenue without new acquisition
Never compromise on a hire — one bad player degrades the whole team
Raise prices to match your best customers, not your average ones
Five things to tell your 25-year-old self
Noah Kagan
January 19, 2017
Goal setting
8
Productivity & habits
7
Resilience & grit
5
Block calendar time for thinking, not just doing.
A written 10-year vision — posted everywhere — keeps you on track.
Young people get meetings; pay for dinners and shortcut years of mistakes.
Productivity & habits
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Mac and Gmail productivity shortcuts to reclaim your time
Noah Kagan
January 12, 2017
Productivity & habits
9
Automation & tools
6
Alfred and Hazel automate the file and app tasks eating your time
Gmail keyboard shortcuts alone can cut email time by 25% or more
Maxing trackpad speed and daily typing practice compound into double the output
Free tactics to grow your email list from zero to 100k+
Noah Kagan
January 8, 2016
Growth hacking
10
Content marketing
7
Automation & tools
6
Your existing assets — email signature, top pages — are untapped list builders.
A free email course outperforms PDFs by feeling like structured, expected value.
Co-marketed giveaways and niche sponsorships beat Facebook ads on cost per subscriber.
How to use a pre-templated email link to drive viral referrals
Noah Kagan
June 18, 2014
Email marketing
9
Referral programs
8
One click opens a pre-written referral email in the recipient's client
URL-encode subject and body to build a zero-friction mailto link
Track shares with bit.ly to measure real viral spread
Four low-cost marketing tactics that work today
Noah Kagan
November 26, 2013
Growth hacking
9
Branding
7
Advertising yourself, not your product, cuts acquisition cost dramatically.
Mid-tier niche creators beat mega-influencers for cost and conversion.
Mobile traffic is massive — most brands are leaving it on the table.