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.

15 October 2018

This week's additions focus on leadership, founder stories, and finance, with new digests from Y Combinator, Ahrefs, and Bill Gallagher. Highlights include Market beats team every time — even great founders die in bad markets Three plugins fix WordPress speed without touching server config

Showing 7 digests for 15 October 2018.

Founder interviews

YouTube

Elad Gil on product market fit, hiring, and scaling startups

Y Combinator October 18, 2018


Founder interviews 9
Product-market fit 8
Fundraising & VC 6
  • Market beats team every time — even great founders die in bad markets
  • Three clear signals your product has found real market fit
  • Why multi-miracle business models almost always fail

SEO

YouTube

WordPress technical SEO: speed, duplicate content, and internal links

Ahrefs October 17, 2018


SEO 9
Automation & tools 6
  • Three plugins fix WordPress speed without touching server config
  • Yoast settings that prevent WordPress from auto-creating thin duplicate pages
  • Find pages with too few internal links using Ahrefs Data Explorer

Productivity & habits

YouTube

Seven principles of individual high performance at work

Bill Gallagher October 17, 2018


Productivity & habits 9
Processes & SOPs 6
Management 5
  • Working beyond 50 hours a week actually decreases performance.
  • Obsessing over fewer priorities beats spreading effort across many.
  • Passion and purpose together — not separately — drive top performance.

Deep work & focus

Podcast

Amanda Palmer on songwriting, creative solitude, and her TED Talk process

How I Work October 17, 2018


Deep work & focus 9
Productivity & habits 7
Public speaking 6
  • Why she needs everyone out of earshot before she can write
  • From a 50-minute draft to a 12-minute talk: two months of brutal cutting
  • Public deadlines and financial stakes as a forcing function for creativity

Equity & cap tables

YouTube

Understanding SAFEs, dilution, and cap tables for early-stage founders

Y Combinator October 17, 2018


Equity & cap tables 9
Fundraising & VC 8
  • Post-money SAFEs let you calculate exactly how much you've sold
  • Stacked SAFEs plus option pool can cut founder ownership in half before Series A
  • Over-optimising your valuation cap changes final ownership by barely 1%

Founder interviews

Podcast

Dee Hock on building Visa and rethinking how organizations work

Founders October 16, 2018


Founder interviews 10
Business operating systems 7
Management 6
  • Visa was built with no money, power, or legal standing — by necessity.
  • Why purpose erodes into procedure inside every large organization.
  • Hock's biggest regret: losing the fight to prevent a payment duopoly.

Founder interviews

YouTube

Building payments infrastructure for African businesses: Paystack's story

Y Combinator October 16, 2018


Founder interviews 10
Business models 6
Hiring & recruitment 5
  • Less than 2% of Nigeria's consumer spending goes through cards — yet.
  • One bad payment experience kills digital trust forever; Paystack designs around that.
  • Local context — not technology — is why international payments companies can't crack Africa.

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