Entrepreneur salaries: the long, underpaid road most ignore
Noah Kagan
August 28, 2017
Bootstrapping
8
Motivation
6
- Staying corporate would have paid more, cumulatively, than entrepreneurship
- Equity is worth nothing until liquid — stop counting it
- Low personal expenses are the real competitive advantage early on
Tim Ferriss on starting a business: keep it simple
Noah Kagan
August 25, 2017
Niche selection
8
Content marketing
6
Identity & self-belief
5
- Build 1,000 true fans — not a broad, unfocused audience
- Own your platform; don't depend on social networks
- Changing your geography may be the fastest growth lever
Hiring & recruitment
YouTube
Hiring for attitude: why undeveloped great teammates beat skilled bad ones
Noah Kagan
August 23, 2017
Hiring & recruitment
9
Culture building
5
- The best hires are undeveloped people with great character, not top performers
- Skilled bad teammates are mercenaries — useful contractors, destructive as employees
- You can teach skills; you cannot teach someone to be a good teammate
How to submit your website to Google and Bing search engines
Ahrefs
August 22, 2017
- Submitting to Bing automatically covers Yahoo — no separate step needed
- Webmaster Tools beats URL submission by handling full sitemaps at once
- The site: operator reveals exactly which pages Google or Bing has indexed
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
You already have what it takes — just go do it
Noah Kagan
August 16, 2017
- A 20-year-old told Kagan he wasn't impressive — and was right.
- Successful people are not a different breed from you.
- Stop seeking advice; you already have everything you need.
Content multiplication: repurpose what works to reach more customers
Noah Kagan
August 14, 2017
- Stop creating new content — multiply what already performs.
- One idea reformatted across channels reaches audiences you'd otherwise miss.
- Delegate formats you dislike; focus only on what you do best.
How to build a proactive dashboard to grow your business
Noah Kagan
August 11, 2017
Processes & SOPs
8
Long-term planning
5
- Track inputs you control, not outcomes you can't
- Cut any activity that doesn't move your main goal
- Assign weekly targets per person; mark green or red
How to get more YouTube views through discoverable content research
Noah Kagan
August 10, 2017
Growth hacking
10
Content marketing
7
- 70% of YouTube growth comes from suggested videos, not search
- Find topics where high-view videos live on low-subscriber channels
- Only 1 in 50 videos hits — but two breakouts can carry a whole channel
How to stop starting things and actually finish them
Noah Kagan
July 31, 2017
Goal setting
9
Productivity & habits
6
- One goal beats many — splitting focus means nothing goes great
- Know your reason before you start; it's what stops you quitting
- Commit for just one quarter if long-term sacrifice feels too big
How MeetEdgar reached $4M ARR using controllable quarterly goals
Noah Kagan
July 21, 2017
Processes & SOPs
8
Goal setting
6
- Outcome goals leave teams unsure what to do each day
- Set tactics your team fully controls, not results they hope for
- Three department-level 'big rocks' per quarter drives $4M ARR
Hiring & recruitment
YouTube
Six lessons for rebuilding an eight-figure business from scratch
Noah Kagan
July 18, 2017
Hiring & recruitment
9
Management
8
Processes & SOPs
5
- Hire band members, not rock stars — mavericks lose to teams
- Board members who disagree with you are your most valuable asset
- Real autonomy outperforms micromanagement — set the goal, then step back
Five emerging marketing channels founders can exploit now
Noah Kagan
July 14, 2017
Growth hacking
9
Social media
5
- Platforms should bring pre-matched customers to you — stop doing segmentation yourself.
- Exploit existing networks the way Airbnb used Craigslist and PayPal used eBay.
- No clean channel exists yet for businesses to message customers one-to-one at scale.
Stop planning, start selling: how to launch a side hustle today
Noah Kagan
July 11, 2017
Niche selection
8
Prospecting & outreach
7
Motivation
6
- Solve problems only when they actually appear, not upfront.
- Your unfair advantage is what you already know or can access.
- Your first product doesn't define your business — just start selling.
Why you should set bigger goals than you think possible
Noah Kagan
July 7, 2017
Goal setting
9
Motivation
7
- Shooting for a billion makes the journey extraordinary regardless of outcome
- Break any massive goal into daily increments to make it tractable
- Higher targets produce higher results even when you fall short
Automation & tools
YouTube
Three Google Sheets formulas every startup should know
Noah Kagan
July 5, 2017
Automation & tools
9
Tech stack & software
5
- IF, VLOOKUP, and QUERY replace most manual data wrangling instantly
- VLOOKUP lets you pull any field from a row by lookup value
- QUERY aggregates spreadsheet data like a lightweight database