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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Five side hustles you can start today for free
Noah Kagan
June 10, 2021
Business models
8
Growth hacking
6
B2C sales
5
The skills people already compliment you on are your business.
Flipping works best when you stick to categories you understand.
Commit 12 months to any side hustle and you will hit $1,000/month.
Productivity & habits
YouTube
How an eight-figure entrepreneur structures his day and week
Noah Kagan
June 9, 2021
Productivity & habits
9
Deep work & focus
7
Business models
5
The one question that separates eight-figure founders from six-figure ones
Why being busy all day can mean producing almost nothing
Side hustles mornings and weekends are still the real path out
Hiring & recruitment
YouTube
How AppSumo hired a new CEO for its $85M business
Noah Kagan
June 7, 2021
Hiring & recruitment
9
Long-term planning
6
The CEO who scaled you to $100M can't scale you to $1B
AppSumo's outgoing CEO initiated his own replacement
A $100K referral bounty turned hiring into a PR event
AppSumo's $70M marketing plan: six channels explained
Noah Kagan
June 3, 2021
Email marketing
9
Content marketing
7
Influencer & partnerships
7
Email drives over 50% of revenue — and you own it outright.
6,000 affiliates became a bigger sales force than any team could.
Stop funding channels that don't convert; 10x what already works.
Building wealth over time: principles, skills, and mindset
Noah Kagan
June 1, 2021
Motivation
8
Niche selection
7
Exit strategy
5
Wealth takes 10 years minimum — commit or don't start.
Rich is high income; wealthy is assets growing while you sleep.
90% of net worth comes from the people you know.
How three solo founders built million-dollar businesses with no employees
Noah Kagan
May 26, 2021
Case studies
10
Bootstrapping
6
Niche selection
6
A one-person business still needs contractors — just not employees.
Validate on existing marketplaces before building anything.
Start in the smallest niche, then duplicate the formula.
Eight proven software business categories from $100M in AppSumo sales
Noah Kagan
May 24, 2021
Business models
9
MVP & prototyping
6
Niche selection
5
Eight software niches validated by $100M in real marketplace sales
Build in a proven category, then carve your own niche within it
Stock assets and templates generate serious revenue with little code
Eight passive income streams that generate $40k per week
Noah Kagan
May 21, 2021
Unit economics
8
Bootstrapping
6
Passive income never replaces active work — it scales wealth you already built.
Return on time beats ROI: one-time effort compounding forever is the real goal.
Software and index funds outperform Airbnb and affiliate blogs for consistent yield.
Content marketing
YouTube
How MrBeast spends $60 million a year on YouTube
Noah Kagan
May 20, 2021
Content marketing
9
Business models
7
Outsourcing & delegation
5
Reinvesting every dollar into bigger videos creates an unstoppable flywheel
Cheap North Carolina HQ frees $14M+/year for actual content
Giveaway taxes alone cost an estimated $6.7M per year
Founder interviews
YouTube
How Mint.com reached one million users in six months
Noah Kagan
May 17, 2021
Founder interviews
10
AI strategy & adoption
9
Pivoting
8
Build your audience and email list before the product exists
Target people already doing the behaviour — don't try to change it
Sponsor niche creators early for the highest ROI you'll ever find
How to meet influential people before they become famous
Noah Kagan
May 10, 2021
Meet future influencers early — before they're too busy to respond
Help someone for a year before asking for anything in return
Persistent follow-up turns closed doors into invitations
Founder interviews
YouTube
How Airrack turned $20,000 in debt into 1M YouTube subscribers
Noah Kagan
May 6, 2021
Founder interviews
10
Growth hacking
7
COVID debt forced a YouTube bet that hit 1M subscribers in a year
Give bigger creators asymmetric wins — that's how you get in the room
Relatable creators who go visibly rich risk losing the audience that built them
Founder interviews
YouTube
How four female entrepreneurs built their first million dollars
Noah Kagan
May 3, 2021
Founder interviews
10
Bootstrapping
7
Community building
6
Community and courses now rival products as million-dollar business models.
Sin City Cupcakes funded entirely from law-firm salary, zero outside capital.
Multiple income streams — not one big bet — is the repeatable wealth formula.
How Noah Kagan rescued AppSumo from a years-long revenue plateau
Noah Kagan
April 28, 2021
Case studies
9
Hiring & recruitment
8
Identity & self-belief
6
Flat revenue kills motivation faster than decline ever does
Hiring a CEO to replace yourself can unlock exponential growth
Focus on strengths; hire your first weakness before burning out
Best business ideas from entrepreneurs: boring niches to crypto
Noah Kagan
April 26, 2021
Business models
8
Community building
6
Boring, reliable industries beat trendy ideas almost every time.
Mass remote work is the biggest blue ocean opportunity in 50 years.
Courses are evolving into hybrid agency-communities with shared goals.