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
YouTube
How to move from employee to entrepreneur without quitting blind
Noah Kagan
September 13, 2021
Identity & self-belief
8
Business models
5
Your day job funds and de-risks your first business attempts.
Don't quit until side income covers your minimum monthly expenses.
Inertia keeps you stuck — start planting seeds now, not later.
How AppSumo grew from $300K to $100M and what comes next
Noah Kagan
September 9, 2021
Case studies
10
Business models
9
Processes & SOPs
7
Three structural shifts took AppSumo from $300K to $100M+
Stop building new products — exhaust what already has traction
Culture only matters once communication breaks at 100 people
How to manage three jobs in a normal work week
Noah Kagan
September 8, 2021
Time management
9
Delegation
8
Deep work & focus
7
Productivity is about goal alignment, not doing more things
A colour-coded calendar SOP makes misaligned weeks impossible to ignore
Hire a dedicated head of staff for each major priority you run
Deep work & focus
YouTube
How to learn any skill faster with a structured approach
Noah Kagan
September 6, 2021
Deep work & focus
9
Productivity & habits
7
Practicing a skill and playing it are completely different activities
Your why must be personal enough to pull you through the grunt work
Find someone already at your destination and shortcut their experience
Productivity & habits
YouTube
Keyboard shortcuts and productivity tricks for Gmail, Zoom, Slack, and Chrome
Noah Kagan
September 2, 2021
Productivity & habits
9
Automation & tools
6
One shortcut reopens accidentally closed browser tabs instantly.
Text replacement turns repetitive phrases into two-keystroke triggers.
Slack, Gmail, and Chrome each have a shortcut to jump straight to search.
Productivity & habits
YouTube
Three home work zones that reduce friction and improve focus
Noah Kagan
August 30, 2021
Productivity & habits
9
Deep work & focus
7
A near-empty desk measurably improves attention and focus
One voice command powers an entire home YouTube studio
Assigning each zone a single purpose makes starting work automatic
Eight leadership lessons from running a $100M business
Noah Kagan
August 26, 2021
Management
9
Processes & SOPs
6
Great CEOs do no work — they hire the decision-makers
Leading from the back beats directing from the front
Saying no to off-focus requests is a compounding superpower
Productivity & habits
YouTube
Building self-discipline through small personal commitments
Noah Kagan
August 25, 2021
Productivity & habits
9
Identity & self-belief
7
Discipline is keeping promises to yourself — each one builds self-confidence.
Delayed rewards (no TV until Friday) make the payoff feel genuinely earned.
Discipline that stops being useful should be adjusted, not preserved out of pride.
Content marketing
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How to get a traditional book deal as a first-time author
Noah Kagan
August 23, 2021
Content marketing
8
Pitching investors
7
Long-term planning
6
A rejected proposal led to six competing publisher offers after one year.
James Clear booked 190 podcast interviews himself — luck had nothing to do with it.
Start your marketing plan two years before the book launches.
How Facebook grew from zero to 50 million users in two years
Noah Kagan
August 19, 2021
Growth hacking
9
Niche selection
6
Retention & loyalty
5
One goal, one deadline — everything else at Facebook was paused.
Photo tagging was engineered virality, not an accident.
Seven friends was the retention trigger that kept users coming back.
How AppSumo employees build side income while keeping their day jobs
Noah Kagan
August 18, 2021
Case studies
7
Prospecting & outreach
7
Growth hacking
5
Start with skills you already have — no money needed to begin
Your personal network is your first client pipeline, not strangers
Doing 1% more than everyone else — free work, follow-ups — wins clients
Three billionaires who built empires after turning 50
Noah Kagan
August 17, 2021
Case studies
10
Niche selection
7
Being fired at 50 led Bernie Marcus to co-found Home Depot
Older founders have networks and resources younger ones lack
Geico was built by targeting customers competitors ignored entirely
How two float spa owners built a $500k/month cold plunge business
Noah Kagan
August 11, 2021
Case studies
9
SEO
8
Influencer & partnerships
8
Owning one uncontested search term drove a year of organic growth.
Ten gifted units to trusted influencers made a garage startup look ubiquitous.
COVID-forced downtime turned into a $3.5M first year by moving fast.
Prospecting & outreach
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Cold outreach to billionaires: what actually works
Noah Kagan
August 9, 2021
Prospecting & outreach
9
Communication
5
Why a genuine hook beats any cold-outreach template
How to find executive email addresses in minutes
Following up matters more than the first message
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
Why external success without internal alignment leads to dissatisfaction
Noah Kagan
August 4, 2021
Identity & self-belief
9
Motivation
7
Work-life balance
5
External fixes — therapy, travel, health hacks — won't solve internal dissatisfaction
Fulfillment beats 'success': define your own measure across life, work, relationships
Entrepreneurial drive requires dissatisfaction, but self-compassion must balance it