Hiring & recruitment
YouTube
How to build and retain a COO as your company scales
Cameron Herold
November 26, 2023
Hiring & recruitment
8
Management
7
Scaling infrastructure
5
- Most COOs hit a ceiling after two company doubles
- A COO must be strong where the CEO is weak
- Visible founder confidence keeps a COO from freezing under pressure
Two business trends helping companies move faster and spend smarter
Neil Patel
November 25, 2023
Bootstrapping
8
Hiring & recruitment
6
Long-term planning
5
- Staggered time-zone shifts run a single project 24 hours straight
- Downturns are the best time to acquire assets at rational prices
- Global hiring cuts labour costs without sacrificing output speed
Putting family first as a core team value
EOS Worldwide
November 24, 2023
Culture building
9
Work-life balance
7
- A mentor's rule: always put family first, no exceptions.
- Never missing kids' events kept regret out of her career.
- Leaders must explicitly give teams permission to choose family.
Spend Marketing Budget Slowly and Profitably, Not Fast
Neil Patel
November 23, 2023
Growth hacking
9
Unit economics
7
- Profitable spend beats rapid growth; stop losing dollars to gain them.
- Slow, methodical scaling outperforms big budget jumps every time.
- Cut what isn't working — discipline is back, and that's good.
Productivity & habits
YouTube
A bad first draft beats waiting for a perfect one
EOS Worldwide
November 23, 2023
Productivity & habits
7
Processes & SOPs
6
Iteration & feedback loops
5
- Starting a B+ draft outweighs weeks of upfront refinement
- Scorecards only improve once you're actually running them
- Iteration reveals what matters — perfection before launch doesn't
Hiring & recruitment
YouTube
Hiring the right COO for each stage of company growth
Cameron Herold
November 20, 2023
Hiring & recruitment
9
Long-term planning
5
- The COO who scales you to $100M can't take you to $450M.
- Match the COO to your stage, not just their resume.
- Two early-stage COO types: the partner and the confidant.
Business operating systems
YouTube
How Dogwood Wealth Management built a business using EOS from day one
EOS Worldwide
November 17, 2023
Business operating systems
8
- Why doing EOS properly beats a watered-down version
- Opposites in business: how structure replaces conflict
- Milestones hit in year one by following the rules
How larger teams free founders to think and plan
EOS Worldwide
November 16, 2023
Delegation
8
Productivity & habits
7
Business operating systems
6
- Bigger teams shift founders from doing to strategic thinking
- Delegation reveals tasks you didn't know you could hand off
- Consistent clarity breaks only happen when execution is covered
Hiring & recruitment
YouTube
How to find and hire the best AI marketers for your team
Neil Patel
November 13, 2023
Hiring & recruitment
8
AI strategy & adoption
6
- Target people already publicly sharing AI marketing results and case studies.
- Build relationships over months before recruiting — never pitch too early.
- Engineers who built AI tools often outperform traditional marketers as hires.
How companies must restructure leadership as they scale
Cameron Herold
November 13, 2023
Management
9
Business operating systems
6
- Managers who got you to 30 employees won't get you to 100
- Co-founders hitting their ceiling need a new seat, not removal
- Past 50 people, COOs must shift from tiebreaker to facilitator
Why selling courses is a worse business than you think
Neil Patel
November 11, 2023
Business models
9
Content marketing
6
- Course buyers are your best leads for a far higher-value product
- Neil replaced $600k/month course revenue with $10M+ consulting clients
- Give courses away free — monetise goodwill, not the content itself
How Netflix multiplies reach with multiple branded Instagram accounts
Neil Patel
November 9, 2023
Copywriting
9
Customer discovery
7
- Netflix runs dozens of accounts segmented by country, genre, and medium.
- Cross-promoting between niche accounts compounds reach at low cost.
- Instagram pod mechanics work the same way across every social channel.
Rocket Fuel podcast season 2: visionary and integrator partnerships
EOS Worldwide
November 9, 2023
Delegation
9
Business operating systems
7
- Visionaries stall without an integrator to focus their energy
- Integrators turn entrepreneurial creativity into structured execution
- Every visionary has a matching integrator partnership waiting
Vivid Vision: How to create a powerful 3–5 year company picture
Bill Gallagher
November 7, 2023
Vision & mission
9
Goal setting
6
- A solo founder exercise — never a committee watered-down compromise
- Visualise every sensory detail before writing, not after
- Doubles as a recruiting, retention, and strategy alignment tool
Building VeeFriends: A Pokémon meets Sesame Street intellectual property
GaryVee
November 6, 2023
Vision & mission
9
Branding
7
Founder interviews
6
- Launched an IP as an NFT while warning NFTs would go to zero
- Hand-drawn characters three years ago; now a NYC parade float
- Chase trends only when they fit an existing strength or conviction