7 March 2022
This week's additions focus on strategy, marketing, and mindset, with new digests from TK Kader, The Daily Stoic, and Founders. Highlights include Partnerships only work as accelerants after your direct motion is proven. Anxiety is internal — removing stress won't remove it.
Showing 18 digests for 7 March 2022.
Partnership marketing strategy for SaaS: direct first, then channels
TK Kader
March 13, 2022
Business models
8
Growth hacking
8
Processes & SOPs
7
Partnerships only work as accelerants after your direct motion is proven.
Most partner programs fail by recruiting partners but never activating them.
Documenting sales playbooks before hiring prevents costly growth plateaus.
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Nine Stoic rules for a better life from Marcus Aurelius
The Daily Stoic
March 13, 2022
Resilience & grit
9
Productivity & habits
6
Anxiety is internal — removing stress won't remove it.
Obstacles from others are live tests of the virtues you claim to hold.
Amor fati, memento mori, and acts for the common good distilled.
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Nims Purja: how extreme self-belief broke mountaineering's hardest record
Founders
March 11, 2022
Resilience & grit
9
Identity & self-belief
7
Management
5
Started climbing at 29, no experience — shattered an 8-year world record.
Quit Special Forces, re-mortgaged his house, began with 15% of required funding.
The mind quits before the body — every summit was won psychologically first.
Automation & tools
YouTube
Five ClickUp Views Mistakes That Cause Team Confusion
Layla at ProcessDriven
March 11, 2022
Automation & tools
9
Processes & SOPs
6
Enabling all default views floods every space with unlabelled clutter.
Me Mode replaces dozens of person-specific views with one shared view.
Favorite views daily — stop navigating the hierarchy to find your work.
How Joma quit Google to run a solo YouTube media operation
Silicon Valley Girl
March 10, 2022
Business models
9
Outsourcing & delegation
7
Bootstrapping
6
Running three YouTube channels with zero full-time employees
A $230k NFT drop funds ~10 videos at $20k each
Don't grow headcount fast — media revenue is too volatile
Work overload, not hours, is the real burnout problem in knowledge work
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
March 10, 2022
Processes & SOPs
9
Work-life balance
6
Four-day weeks don't fix burnout — chronic overload does the damage.
Overhead spirals: too many tasks means coordination consumes your entire day.
Pull-based work systems can fix overload in a way that benefits everyone.
Hiring & recruitment
YouTube
One-on-one, panel, and group interview formats compared
HR Party of One
March 10, 2022
Hiring & recruitment
9
Management
5
One-on-one suits most roles but amplifies single-interviewer bias.
Panels reduce blind spots and raise accountability for senior hires.
Group interviews efficiently screen many candidates for lower-level roles.
How DoorDash built a $41M/month SEO page with near-me queries
Ahrefs
March 9, 2022
SEO
9
Content marketing
7
One page generates more traffic value than UberEats' whole site.
Ranking without local content by fracturing searcher intent.
Internal link clusters compound PageRank across every near-me page.
How Adyen built a single-platform payments giant
Business Breakdowns
March 9, 2022
Case studies
9
Business models
8
Culture building
6
Unified platform eliminates 18-20 legacy systems competitors glued together.
Weekly release cycles and obsessive hiring culture drive velocity competitors can't match.
Control the data: only Adyen has transaction visibility across entire payment chain.
Six SaaS metrics every founder should track and optimise
Rob Walling
March 9, 2022
Unit economics
9
Business models
7
Growth hacking
6
A six-metric framework: three to minimise, three to maximise.
Churn has two distinct phases — onboarding and product-market fit.
Expansion revenue is the cheat code inside the SaaS cheat code.
Resilience & grit
YouTube
Handling fear of criticism and rejection at work
Dr. Grace Lee
March 9, 2022
Resilience & grit
7
Identity & self-belief
5
Labeling feedback as criticism makes you its victim instantly.
Sensitivity to criticism reveals something you haven't owned about yourself.
Genuine curiosity replaces defensiveness — and keeps you professional.
Retaining employees and criteria for an ideal bootstrapped SaaS
Startups For the Rest of Us
March 8, 2022
Business models
9
Hiring & recruitment
6
Bootstrapping
5
Net negative churn is the SaaS cheat code — build it in from day one.
Salary isn't the top retention lever; autonomy and stability often win.
Dual pricing funnels — cheap self-serve plus enterprise — grow fastest.
Content marketing
YouTube
How to build a profitable social media strategy with minimal content
Sunny Lenarduzzi
March 8, 2022
Content marketing
9
Growth hacking
8
Conversion rate optimisation
5
You need the right 3 clients a month, not a big audience
Evergreen content (YouTube) runs your lead generation while you sleep
Know your conversion rate and baseline numbers to predict revenue reliably
Sony: From Postwar Tokyo to Global Electronics and Entertainment Giant
Acquired
March 7, 2022
Origin stories
10
Business models
7
Branding
5
Morita refused a 100,000-unit order to protect the Sony brand name.
PlayStation exists only because Nintendo publicly betrayed Sony at CES 1991.
Sony's hardware genius became its blind spot as the world moved to software.
Three underused website traffic sources worth adding now
Neil Patel
March 7, 2022
Growth hacking
9
Content marketing
7
Quora contributors generate compounding residual traffic long after they stop posting.
YouTube is Neil Patel's second-highest converting traffic source, beating most paid channels.
Syndication platforms like Taboola let you target readers mid-funnel on related content.