This week's additions focus on ai, leadership, and mindset, with new digests from Noah Kagan and Masters of Scale. Highlights include Shooting for a billion makes the journey extraordinary regardless of outcome Rejections are data — a squirmy no signals you're onto something real.

Goal setting

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Why you should set bigger goals than you think possible

Noah Kagan July 7, 2017

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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

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Culture building

Podcast

Ten commandments of startup success from Reid Hoffman and Tim Ferriss

Masters of Scale July 5, 2017

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Culture building 8

MVP & prototyping 7

Hiring & recruitment 7

• Rejections are data — a squirmy no signals you're onto something real.
• Do things that don't scale first: hand-craft the experience for your first users.
• Move fast, but build stable infrastructure before speed breaks everything.

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Automation & tools

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Three Google Sheets formulas every startup should know

Noah Kagan July 5, 2017

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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

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