11 July 2022
This week's additions focus on leadership, mindset, and strategy, with new digests from TK Kader, Business Breakdowns, and Semrush. Highlights include SaaS dead zones hit at every major ARR milestone — not randomly Rolex operates as a non-profit foundation with no public reporting.
Showing 23 digests for 11 July 2022.
Asking New York Millionaires How To Make $1,000,000
Noah Kagan
July 12, 2022
Case studies
10
Resilience & grit
6
Founder interviews
Podcast
How Patrick Campbell bootstrapped ProfitWell to a $200M exit
Startups For the Rest of Us
July 12, 2022
Founder interviews
9
Bootstrapping
8
Exit strategy
6
Services revenue funded SaaS growth — but reinvesting everything delayed personal wealth.
Every employee got equity; 13 became millionaires at the $200M exit.
Bootstrapping costs 2-3 years versus raising even a small seed round.
MVP & prototyping
YouTube
How to pre-sell an online course before building it
Sunny Lenarduzzi
July 12, 2022
MVP & prototyping
10
Customer discovery
10
Prospecting & outreach
7
Interview real prospects before building — their words shape the offer
First clients come from those same interviews, no funnel needed
Deliver live before recording: feedback makes the final course far stronger
Product-market fit
Podcast
Merci Grace on PLG, hiring, storytelling, and building diverse teams at Slack
Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth
July 11, 2022
Product-market fit
9
Iteration & feedback loops
8
Hiring & recruitment
7
3 people and 50 messages was Slack's real product-market-fit signal
Day-zero value is a prerequisite — delayed payoff kills PLG
Early diversity hires create a self-reinforcing flywheel for inclusion
Six SaaS ideas worth building in underserved niches
Rob Walling
July 11, 2022
Business models
10
Automation & tools
10
AI tools & automation
10
No tool exists for end-to-end podcast production project management.
Accelerator applicant tracking tools have poor UX — gap ready to fill.
Find ideas where people use Excel or four duct-taped tools daily.
How to hire and manage account managers for enterprise SaaS
Dan Martell
July 11, 2022
B2B sales
9
Hiring & recruitment
7
Niche selection
6
Hire ex-salespeople as account managers for the double-whammy effect
One account manager should own $2–3M in business as their P&L
Stay focused until 15–20% market penetration before expanding verticals
Deep work & focus
Podcast
Cal Newport on deep life principles, slow productivity, and career capital
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
July 11, 2022
Deep work & focus
10
Productivity & habits
9
Goal setting
6
A Fields Medal winner does only three hours of focused work daily.
Industrial-era busyness metrics are the wrong measure for knowledge work.
Career capital — rare skills — is the practical fuel for a deep life.
How the Kolbe assessment helps entrepreneurial teams work better together
EOS Worldwide
July 11, 2022
Management
9
Communication
6
Kolbe measures how people take action, not personality or IQ
Teams gain a shared language and cohesion in under an hour
High impact for low effort: the 20% that delivers the 80%