30 May 2022
This week's additions focus on marketing, strategy, and finance, with new digests from TK Kader, The Daily Stoic, and Dr. Grace Lee. Highlights include Low prices signal low value — most SaaS founders are actively hurting themselves. Why checking your phone first thing hands your day to others
Showing 17 digests for 30 May 2022.
SaaS pricing strategy: three principles to raise prices and accelerate growth
TK Kader
June 5, 2022
Pricing strategy
9
Pricing psychology
6
Low prices signal low value — most SaaS founders are actively hurting themselves.
Structure pricing across packaging, price point, and terms before touching numbers.
Lead every pricing conversation with the buyer's ROI, not the feature list.
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Eight Stoic don'ts for living a better, more focused life
The Daily Stoic
June 5, 2022
Resilience & grit
9
Identity & self-belief
8
Deep work & focus
6
Why checking your phone first thing hands your day to others
The Stoic case for never seeking revenge — on anyone
Your internal scorecard beats any external opinion or approval
Five strategies for cross-cultural communication at work
Dr. Grace Lee
June 4, 2022
Communication
9
Management
5
Transactional communication reinforces bias — genuine connection transcends it
Wrong word register or gesture can end collaboration across cultures
Cultural differences are assets that sharpen decisions, not obstacles to manage
The blitz list: start and validate link building campaigns fast
Ahrefs
June 3, 2022
SEO
8
Automation & tools
7
Test outreach viability in under an hour before scaling
Hunter + NeverBounce APIs find 60–120 valid emails in 30 minutes
Manual and freelancer email finding is slower and less reliable
How Process Driven manages YouTube content production in ClickUp
Layla at ProcessDriven
June 3, 2022
Processes & SOPs
10
Automation & tools
8
Dependencies replace memory — automations drive every handoff
One template applied per video adds subtasks, due dates, and structure instantly
Scheduling is a relationship link, not a copy-paste — delays surface automatically
Contracts & agreements
YouTube
How to build an effective internship program: HR's guide
HR Party of One
June 2, 2022
Contracts & agreements
10
AI tools & automation
10
Management
10
Internships are a hiring pipeline, not a short-term staffing fix
Most for-profit interns must be paid minimum wage under FLSA
HR owns five distinct roles from policy design to legal compliance
Who to contact for link building outreach pitches
Ahrefs
June 1, 2022
Pitching the wrong person makes outreach pointless, regardless of quality.
Authors and editors convert at ~7.5%; webmasters convert at just 1.64%.
Company size changes who holds decision-making power for guest posts.
Founder interviews
YouTube
What Supercar Owners Do for a Living and Their Best Money Advice
Noah Kagan
June 1, 2022
Founder interviews
10
Bootstrapping
6
Passion beats strategy — owners across every field say love drives long hours.
S&P 500 over 30 years beats short-term crypto every time.
Sales and uncapped commissions are the fastest employee path to wealth.
Bootstrapping vs venture capital: choosing the right funding path
Rob Walling
June 1, 2022
Fundraising & VC
9
Bootstrapping
8
Business models
6
VCs can block a sale even when founders have a great offer
Indie funding offers capital without unicorn expectations or board control
Debt financing is non-dilutive and viable from $15K MRR
Founder interviews
Podcast
Steve Jobs in his own words: core principles from a lifetime of building
Founders
June 1, 2022
Founder interviews
10
Hiring & recruitment
6
Resilience & grit
5
Passion is the mechanism that keeps you going when any rational person quits.
Focus means saying no to a thousand good ideas — Jobs refused netbooks, built the iPad.
Owning hardware, software, and OS gave Apple sole responsibility for the user experience.
When and why to start charging your users
Y Combinator
June 1, 2022
Pricing strategy
9
Product-market fit
7
Business models
6
Free users mask whether anyone will actually pay you
Pricing can change anytime — perfectionism is just fear
Not charging enterprise prospects signals you might not survive
Founder interviews
Podcast
How Moderna's network of collaborators enabled the COVID-19 vaccine
Masters of Scale
May 31, 2022
Founder interviews
9
Culture building
6
Pivoting
5
Bancel's decade-built network let him spot the pandemic weeks before his own team.
Moderna designed the COVID vaccine in 10 minutes using mRNA software-like technology.
A deliberate two-week delay ensured the vaccine worked for all ethnic groups.
MVP & prototyping
Podcast
Building SaaS with limited dev skills, no-code, and two-sided marketplaces
Startups For the Rest of Us
May 31, 2022
MVP & prototyping
8
Business models
7
No-code & low-code
6
No-code works for MVPs but rarely scales to a full SaaS product.
Bootstrapping a two-sided marketplace without an existing audience almost always fails.
Prove willingness to pay manually before writing a single line of code.
Nine rules for growing an online course business to eight figures
Sunny Lenarduzzi
May 31, 2022
Niche selection
9
Growth hacking
8
Prospecting & outreach
7
Why a small, focused audience outperforms chasing mass reach
Warm audiences are a false positive — build consistent new lead flow
Don't blame marketing until your offer and ideal client are airtight
How to vet and validate link prospects quickly
Ahrefs
May 30, 2022
SEO
10
Prospecting & outreach
5
A three-level filter cuts thousands of prospects to a targeted list
Screaming Frog turns eight hours of URL checks into five minutes
Complex linkable points with variable context still need manual review