What's New

See the latest Trusted Library digests, grouped by the week they were added.

What's New

See the latest Trusted Library digests, grouped by the week they were added.

10 April 2017

This week's additions focus on strategy, finance, and founder stories, with new digests from Noah Kagan, Bill Gallagher, and Acquired. Highlights include Without a destination, every business decision is just wandering Founders who dominate culture produce teams waiting for orders, not decisions.

Showing 4 digests for 10 April 2017.

Vision & mission

YouTube

How to grow your business by defining a clear vision

Noah Kagan April 14, 2017


Vision & mission 9
Goal setting 6
  • Without a destination, every business decision is just wandering
  • Tim Ferriss declared his exact goal before he had any platform
  • Ask yourself how you'd run it if you could have it any way

Business operating systems

YouTube

Balancing innovation and operational discipline in scaling tech companies

Bill Gallagher April 12, 2017


Business operating systems 9
Processes & SOPs 7
Management 6
  • Founders who dominate culture produce teams waiting for orders, not decisions.
  • 200 products, only 2 profitable — how portfolio bloat kills scale-up focus.
  • The silver bullet is the playbook itself, not any single initiative.

Case studies

Podcast

Facebook's acquisition of Oculus: a billion-dollar bet on VR's future

Acquired April 11, 2017


Case studies 9
Business models 7
Fundraising & VC 6
  • A duct-taped prototype became a $2.3B acquisition in under two years
  • Valve shipped a superior VR product within a year of the Facebook deal
  • Facebook bought Oculus to avoid repeating its near-miss on mobile

Business operating systems

YouTube

How to scale up a business without overwhelm

Bill Gallagher April 10, 2017


Business operating systems 8
  • You can't become a high-performance company all at once
  • Mouse, gazelle, elephant: the three stages every business moves through
  • Always fix your single weakest habit before tackling the next

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