Management

Podcast

Shackleton's Antarctic survival and what it teaches about leadership

Founders September 13, 2020

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Management 9

Resilience & grit 7

Case studies 6

• Shackleton feared demoralization more than ice, cold, or starvation.
• Every escape route failed — survival came from refusing to stop trying.
• He crossed South Georgia Island in 36 hours with a rope and an axe.

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Deep work & focus

Podcast

Cal Newport's fall schedule, deep work habits, and how to handle distraction

Deep Questions with Cal Newport September 10, 2020

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Deep work & focus 10

Productivity & habits 8

• Dropping planning systems under deadline pressure costs more than it saves.
• Checking markets every 15 minutes destroys study performance — no workaround exists.
• Collaborative meetings can produce deeper focus than solo work via social pressure.

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Case studies

Podcast

Bebo's second life: buying a dead social network and selling it to Twitch

Acquired September 9, 2020

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Case studies 10

Pivoting 7

Pitching investors 6

• A $850M social network bought back from bankruptcy for just $1M.
• Selling a company means finding what the buyer already wants to do.
• Buying profitable small businesses beats the startup lottery for most people.

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Resilience & grit

YouTube

How leaders can build lasting happiness without waiting for success

Bill Gallagher September 9, 2020

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Resilience & grit 9

Management 7

Work-life balance 6

• Deferring happiness to a future milestone is the most common entrepreneur trap.
• Meditation, gratitude journaling, and body check-ins cost nothing and work.
• The time-anger gap: you choose how long negative emotion runs your day.

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Identity & self-belief

Podcast

Andy Andrews on focus, self-honesty, and perspective as a choice

Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life September 8, 2020

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Identity & self-belief 9

Deep work & focus 7

Mental health & wellbeing 5

• Worry is focus — just aimed at completely the wrong target.
• Self-deception wastes more time and money than anything else.
• Perspective isn't how you see things — it's how you choose to.

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Customer discovery

YouTube

How to reach one million users by staying customer-first

Noah Kagan September 8, 2020

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Customer discovery 9

MVP & prototyping 7

Pivoting 6

• Get customers before you build anything — validate demand first
• Wrong success metric drove a million signups who never came back
• Five-step customer-first framework for finding product-market fit

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