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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Productivity & habits
YouTube
Ten traits that predict entrepreneurial success
Noah Kagan
August 3, 2021
Productivity & habits
9
Resilience & grit
7
Bias toward action separates doers from endless content consumers
Relentless follow-up matters more than initial output quality
Internal compass beats trend-chasing for long-term founder success
Automation & tools
YouTube
15 Chrome extensions worth installing for entrepreneurs
Noah Kagan
July 28, 2021
Automation & tools
8
Productivity & habits
6
Pocket batches distracting links so you read on your schedule
Rakuten and Capital One Shopping save money with zero extra effort
Idle extensions harvest your browsing data — audit and cut them
Resilience & grit
YouTube
Starting a side business while keeping your day job
Noah Kagan
July 26, 2021
Resilience & grit
8
Business models
6
Motivation
5
Your day job funds the runway — quitting early kills most businesses.
Fear of rejection, not lack of time, is what stops most people starting.
Build income that works around the clock, not only when you show up.
Five post-COVID business ideas you can start this weekend
Noah Kagan
July 22, 2021
Niche selection
9
MVP & prototyping
7
Growth hacking
6
Turn creators' long-form content into short clips — get paid for it
Pet adoptions spiked 12%; returning travellers need care now
150 members at $29/month funds a full stand-up comedy career
How a freelance writer built a $378K annual income on Fiverr
Noah Kagan
July 20, 2021
Case studies
8
Prospecting & outreach
7
Bootstrapping
6
Income jumped from $63K to $273K in a single year — through output, not hacks.
Platform dependency is a trap: own your email list and save 50% of revenue.
Start with skills you've already been paid for, then climb to higher-value gigs.
How Sumo.com grew to $6M ARR using six unconventional growth hacks
Noah Kagan
July 14, 2021
Growth hacking
10
MVP & prototyping
6
Bootstrapping
5
Buying neglected WordPress plugins drove 20–30% of all signups
Free alternatives to paid tools accelerate growth when demand is already proven
Telling your audience the same thing repeatedly is not optional — it works
Getting fired from Facebook as employee #30: lessons from a $1B mistake
Noah Kagan
July 8, 2021
Case studies
9
Identity & self-belief
7
Forfeiting $1B in equity because you wanted your own show
Facebook Status — the feature that became Twitter — was his idea
Early-stage people often can't scale; know which one you are
How to build wealth and direction in your 20s
Noah Kagan
July 6, 2021
Niche selection
9
Goal setting
8
Prospecting & outreach
6
Big markets matter more than raw talent in your 20s
Tracking net worth monthly is enough to improve it
Creation compounds; consumption doesn't
Three entrepreneurs who built multi-million dollar businesses before 21
Noah Kagan
June 30, 2021
Case studies
9
Growth hacking
6
MVP & prototyping
5
Every founder here failed first — prior businesses were the real education.
Gymshark scaled to $500M by targeting an ignored niche with influencer marketing before it was mainstream.
Validate demand with pre-orders and pilots before spending time or money on production.
Founder interviews
YouTube
Ten years of failures before AppSumo: Noah Kagan's entrepreneur journey
Noah Kagan
June 28, 2021
Founder interviews
10
Resilience & grit
6
Taking action on bad ideas builds skills that compound over a decade
Getting fired from Facebook with no equity was a turning point
AppSumo emerged from three unrelated observations, not a single insight
How three people retired in their 30s using different strategies
Noah Kagan
June 24, 2021
Case studies
10
Bootstrapping
7
Unit economics
5
Saving 70% of income on ordinary jobs can retire you in three years
A $30k crypto bet at the bottom turned into a $10M retirement plan
Turning a hobby into a business can fund early retirement by accident
Automation & tools
YouTube
15 business apps AppSumo uses to run an $85M/year company
Noah Kagan
June 23, 2021
Automation & tools
9
Growth hacking
8
Cash flow management
6
AppSumo's affiliate program pulled $608K in revenue in one week.
Giveaways alone account for eight figures of AppSumo's total revenue.
Start free and scrappy — add software only when the problem is clear.
Productivity & habits
YouTube
13 daily habits that helped build a nine-figure company
Noah Kagan
June 21, 2021
Productivity & habits
10
Goal setting
8
Communication
5
The habit of following through when no one is watching is a superpower.
Tracking net worth monthly is what actually made the difference financially.
Scheduled silence — no podcasts, no music — unlocks creativity no book can.
How to make $200,000 organizing conferences as a side hustle
Noah Kagan
June 16, 2021
Processes & SOPs
8
Business models
6
Community building
6
Ticket sales break even; sponsorships are where the real profit lives.
One free venue and one anchor speaker is enough to start.
Sam Parr turned a small conference into an eight-figure acquisition.
Marketing fundamentals: problem, person, and place in 13 minutes
Noah Kagan
June 14, 2021
Growth hacking
9
Retention & loyalty
6
No tactic fixes a product that solves a problem nobody wants.
Narrower customer definition consistently outperforms broad targeting.
Stop dead channels — 50x the one thing that actually works.