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 December 2018

This week's additions focus on leadership, operations, and strategy, with new digests from Y Combinator, Ahrefs, and Bill Gallagher. Highlights include Adding delivery to a Craigslist listing got an immediate, full-price sale on day one. Average #1 ranking page also ranks for ~1,000 other keywords

Showing 5 digests for 10 December 2018.

Case studies

YouTube

How AptDeco built a trusted furniture marketplace from a Craigslist pain point

Y Combinator December 14, 2018


Case studies 9
Processes & SOPs 7
Management 6
  • Adding delivery to a Craigslist listing got an immediate, full-price sale on day one.
  • Warehousing kills furniture marketplace unit economics — same-day pickup-to-delivery doesn't.
  • People management from corporate careers prevents the team implosions that kill startups.

SEO

YouTube

How to rank for thousands of keywords with a single page

Ahrefs December 12, 2018


SEO 9
  • Average #1 ranking page also ranks for ~1,000 other keywords
  • High search volume alone doesn't mean high traffic — topic matters
  • Strong backlinks and long-form content are the biggest ranking multipliers

Management

YouTube

What symphony conductors teach business leaders about listening

Bill Gallagher December 12, 2018


Management 9
Culture building 7
  • Over-directing your team kills initiative — and you can hear it happen
  • A workforce can often self-organise; the leader's job is elevation, not control
  • Discoveries people make themselves stick far longer than what they're told

Processes & SOPs

YouTube

How well-designed meetings fix culture, alignment, and scale

Bill Gallagher December 12, 2018


Processes & SOPs 8
Business operating systems 7
Culture building 6
  • Fix the meetings first — culture and alignment follow automatically.
  • 16 meeting types exist; using the wrong one guarantees poor outcomes.
  • 80% of time in meetings signals metastasis, not productivity.

Business models

Podcast

Marc Andreessen's startup and career advice from his blog archive

Founders December 11, 2018


Business models 9
Career planning and opportunity 7
Vision & mission 6
  • Market beats team and product every time — without exception
  • Treat your career as a risk portfolio, not a plan
  • Edison didn't recognise the phonograph's value for months after inventing it

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