What's New

This week's additions focus on marketing, mindset, and strategy, with new digests from Noah Kagan, Founders, and Bill Gallagher. Highlights include Why cold pitching fails — and what to do months before asking Discipline and delayed gratification compound wealth: saved 66-75% of earnings while peers spent on drink.

PR & media

YouTube

How to get press and build media relationships that actually work

Noah Kagan March 6, 2020

PR & media 10

Prospecting & outreach 6

Why cold pitching fails — and what to do months before asking
A repeatable system that earned 2,000+ media placements
Backlinks from press are worth what SEO pros pay thousands for

Origin stories

Podcast

A.G. Gaston: From Mining to Millionaire Through Discipline and Vision

Founders March 5, 2020

Origin stories 10

Resilience & grit 7

Business models 6

Discipline and delayed gratification compound wealth: saved 66-75% of earnings while peers spent on drink.
Economic independence is the real foundation of freedom, not rhetoric; Gaston built $130M empire.
Find a need and fill it: discovered burial insurance gap, then vertically integrated into funeral homes and cemeteries.

Business operating systems

YouTube

How Trade Pro Academy reached $1M using the Scaling Up framework

Bill Gallagher March 4, 2020

Business operating systems 10

Product-market fit 7

Growth hacking 6

Seven strata applied at launch drove first-year $1M revenue.
Community is the X factor competitors can't steal or replicate.
$1,000 ad budget — YouTube free content drove 65% of profit.

Identity & self-belief

Podcast

Overthinking, decision-making, and living by your values

Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life March 2, 2020

Identity & self-belief 9

Deep work & focus 6

Mental health & wellbeing 5

Perfectionism silently fuels overthinking in ways most people don't recognise
Pre-made decisions based on your values eliminate most daily deliberation
Small mental habit changes compound — just like small destructions do