This week's additions focus on strategy, founder stories, and leadership, with new digests from Noah Kagan and Founders. Highlights include Original research makes you uncopyable and commands premium corporate fees Bezos left Wall Street after spotting 230,000% web growth in one year.

Content marketing

YouTube

How Vanessa Van Edwards built a seven-figure social skills business

Noah Kagan January 5, 2018

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Content marketing 8

Growth hacking 7

Business models 6

• Original research makes you uncopyable and commands premium corporate fees
• Force YouTube recommendations by adding your video to competitors' playlists
• Design 'allergies' into your funnel to repel bad-fit customers before purchase

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Origin stories

Podcast

Jeff Bezos and the early decisions that built Amazon

Founders January 1, 2018

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Origin stories 10

Long-term planning 7

Management 6

• Bezos left Wall Street after spotting 230,000% web growth in one year.
• A single Costco meeting rewired Amazon's entire pricing strategy.
• Banning PowerPoint and building two-pizza teams were deliberate structural choices.

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