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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Asking Millionaires How They Made Their First Million
Noah Kagan
November 8, 2021
Origin stories
10
Goal setting
6
Networking
5
Wealth paths include hedge funds, homebuilding, mobile homes, tech recruiting, and medicine
Genuine interest in a field consistently outperforms chasing income alone
Taking a wealthy contact to lunch beats cold door-knocking for mentorship and opportunities
How Binging with Babish built a $12M YouTube business
Noah Kagan
November 4, 2021
Business models
9
Content marketing
7
Pricing strategy
5
Brand deals alone generate nearly $5M a year
Building audience before product line creates an unfair sales advantage
A passive affiliate page earns an estimated $2.5M annually
What a $100,000 business coach actually teaches you
Noah Kagan
October 20, 2021
Management
9
Delegation
7
Productivity & habits
6
Inaction is usually the worst decision you can make
Balance genuine recognition with pushes for excellence — neither alone works
Weekly CEO self-review compounds self-awareness into a real advantage
Prospecting & outreach
YouTube
Eight underrated business books that solve specific founder problems
Noah Kagan
October 18, 2021
Prospecting & outreach
7
Hiring & recruitment
7
Business operating systems
6
Charge on value created, not hourly rates — it changes everything
The Dream 100 list beats any fancy marketing campaign
Morning pages and artist dates are practical tools to rebuild creativity
Productivity & habits
YouTube
Walking out of a Tony Robbins event and building your own instead
Noah Kagan
October 15, 2021
Productivity & habits
8
Resilience & grit
5
Superficial 15-second fixes don't resolve deep-seated personal problems
Design your own personal development day for $0 instead
The answers are inside you — magic solutions don't exist
Business lessons from MrBeast's YouTube empire
Noah Kagan
October 13, 2021
Business models
8
Growth hacking
8
Case studies
7
One north-star goal filters every hire, spend, and decision
MrBeast reinvested every dollar back in — from day one
Packaging is 50% of the product; he spends $10k per thumbnail
Three solo founders building million-dollar businesses with no employees
Noah Kagan
October 11, 2021
Case studies
9
Outsourcing & delegation
7
Unsexy businesses — babysitting, beats, blogs — beat novel ideas at scale
Build demand before supply; start with the customer, not the product
Grow one customer at a time; hand-to-hand marketing beats paid ads early
MVP & prototyping
YouTube
How to start any business for under $100
Noah Kagan
October 6, 2021
MVP & prototyping
9
Customer discovery
8
Business models
6
Validate demand manually before writing a single line of code
Target massive universal markets: sleep, food, clothing, entertainment
Get three paying customers first — then figure out how to make the product
Nine side hustle ideas you can start from home today
Noah Kagan
October 4, 2021
Niche selection
8
Growth hacking
6
MVP & prototyping
5
Headhunting mid-level roles is wide open and pays well
Always offer value first — free work converts to paid clients
The $99B pet industry is an overlooked starting point for photographers
Eight software business ideas backed by $100M in AppSumo sales data
Noah Kagan
September 29, 2021
Niche selection
9
MVP & prototyping
8
Business models
6
Eight proven software categories drawn from $100M in real sales data
Find a paying customer before writing a single line of code
Build the manual service first — automate only what actually works
MVP & prototyping
YouTube
Validate your business idea before spending time or money
Noah Kagan
September 28, 2021
MVP & prototyping
9
Customer discovery
7
Pre-sell before you build — a paying customer beats any prototype
Airbnb, Uber, Craigslist all launched with embarrassingly basic products
No customers yet? Scale is not your problem
Resilience & grit
YouTube
How Noah Kagan dealt with depression after being fired from Facebook
Noah Kagan
September 22, 2021
Resilience & grit
9
Identity & self-belief
7
Founder interviews
6
A decade of depression while watching Facebook teammates become billionaires
Small controlled wins — gym, blogging, helping one person — rebuild self-worth fast
Use the chip on your shoulder as fuel, then find a better motivator
Resilience & grit
YouTube
7 challenges to overcome fear and start a business this weekend
Noah Kagan
September 20, 2021
Resilience & grit
9
Prospecting & outreach
6
Fear of rejection — not ideas — stops most people from starting
Ask for 10% off your coffee; do it where regulars know you
Getting your first dollar from a friend unlocks real self-belief
How to retire in the next 12 months by designing a life worth living now
Noah Kagan
September 17, 2021
Goal setting
7
Work-life balance
6
Bootstrapping
5
Low costs plus work you'd do free beats decades of deferred living.
Your real retirement number is almost always less than you think.
Freedom without stakes feels empty — meaningful hard work is the point.
Productivity & habits
YouTube
How a CEO structures a full day running a $100M company from home
Noah Kagan
September 16, 2021
Productivity & habits
9
Management
6
CEOs only deal with problems nobody else has solved yet.
Themed days keep strategic priorities from being swallowed by meetings.
A mid-day reset — walk, water, scenery change — visibly shifts afternoon performance.