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.

Vision & mission

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How to grow your business by defining a clear vision

Noah Kagan April 14, 2017

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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

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Business operating systems

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Balancing innovation and operational discipline in scaling tech companies

Bill Gallagher April 12, 2017

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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.

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Case studies

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

Acquired April 11, 2017

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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

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Business operating systems

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How to scale up a business without overwhelm

Bill Gallagher April 10, 2017

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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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