1 August 2022
This week's additions focus on leadership, mindset, and strategy, with new digests from TK Kader, Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth, and Semrush. Highlights include Your current GTM machine won't scale to the next revenue stage. Launching has six distinct goals — customer acquisition is just one
Showing 20 digests for 1 August 2022.
Building a scalable B2B SaaS go-to-market strategy
TK Kader
August 7, 2022
Market research
9
Growth hacking
7
Prospecting & outreach
6
Your current GTM machine won't scale to the next revenue stage.
Strategy without data and team alignment produces random activity.
Three assets — ICP, manifesto, Broadway show — turn alignment into execution.
Building and launching products: lessons from Product Hunt's founder
Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth
August 7, 2022
Niche selection
9
MVP & prototyping
7
Fundraising & VC
6
Launching has six distinct goals — customer acquisition is just one
Expanding horizontally killed Product Hunt's growth; go deep, not wide
Momentum is reflexive: shipping culture spreads, stagnation spreads equally
How to find untapped keywords for SEO
Semrush
August 5, 2022
Bad seed keywords waste all your keyword research effort
Wikipedia and Reddit surface high-value terms tools miss
Filter keywords by competition, search volume, and CPC — in that order
Automation & tools
YouTube
How to use ClickUp rollup fields with relationships
Layla at ProcessDriven
August 5, 2022
Rollups only work on top of a relationship — not standalone
Rollup columns unlock calculations: earliest date, status bar charts
Custom field rollups require a list-scoped relationship, not workspace-wide
How to own your career growth as a product leader
Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth
August 4, 2022
Communication
10
Identity & self-belief
7
Hiring & recruitment
6
PM your career like a product: roadmap, metrics, and peer feedback loops
Speaking on the spot — fairly or not — is rocket fuel for senior careers
Facebook Marketplace won on trust, not traffic: real identity changed everything
How to address an underperforming Integrator
EOS Worldwide
August 4, 2022
Management
9
Business operating systems
5
Three data points per concern — one is explainable, two a coincidence, three a pattern.
No steady progress after the conversation triggers the three-strike rule.
Ending the relationship when necessary serves the company and both parties.
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Dee Hock's aphorisms on life, learning, and leadership
Founders
August 4, 2022
Resilience & grit
7
Management
6
Identity & self-belief
5
Why institutions crush the creativity and freedom humans need most.
Read like an eagle hunting prey, not a dog obeying its master.
Controlling others is force — controlling self is power.
Hiring & recruitment
YouTube
Recognising and eliminating recruiting bias in hiring
HR Party of One
August 4, 2022
Hiring & recruitment
9
Compliance & regulation
7
Processes & SOPs
6
Most hiring bias is unconscious — your process enables or prevents it.
Four bias types that quietly skew candidate evaluation every time.
Practical fixes: manager manuals, neutral job posts, skills assessments.
LVMH: How Bernard Arnault built the world's largest luxury conglomerate
Business Breakdowns
August 3, 2022
Business models
10
Case studies
9
Valuation
6
Why luxury brands deliberately avoid expanding their operating margins
Bulgari went from €100m to €500m EBIT under LVMH ownership
Arnault's succession is the single biggest risk to the conglomerate
Three strategies for presenting effectively to C-suite executives
Dr. Grace Lee
August 3, 2022
Public speaking
9
Communication
8
Why presenting like you did in junior roles kills C-suite buy-in
Anchor every recommendation to a corporate objective or risk rejection
Design the interaction — build trust, familiarity, and involve them in the plan
Founder interviews
Podcast
Dee Hock, Visa, and the chaordic organization
Founders
August 3, 2022
Founder interviews
10
Business operating systems
8
Management
6
Competing banks worldwide cooperated to build what none could alone.
Hock reframed money as alphanumeric data — and saw Visa's true market.
He judged his own creation a failure against what it ought to have been.
Five ways to burnout-proof your organization
Masters of Scale
August 2, 2022
Culture building
9
Management
7
Work-life balance
6
Spot burnout hidden in high-performer productivity before it causes attrition
Leaders must communicate two-way: send clarity, actively seek frontline truth
Hire before you break; delegation at inflection points prevents solo-founder collapse
Founder interviews
Podcast
From NFL to Congress: One Lawmaker's Approach to Regulating Crypto
Acquired
August 2, 2022
Founder interviews
9
Compliance & regulation
5
A congressman who actually used DeFi before writing crypto law
Why stablecoins are the only safe first bite of crypto regulation
Low primary turnout — not polarization — is why Congress stays extreme
Deep work & focus
Podcast
How a digital declutter transformed a comedian's relationship with social media
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
August 2, 2022
Deep work & focus
9
Productivity & habits
8
Case studies
6
White-knuckling a phone break fails — filling the space is what works.
Even purely positive social media interactions can fuel compulsive checking.
Focusing on craft reframes quitting as moving toward mastery, not defeat.
Quitting your day job, founder anxiety, and domain names: listener Q&A
Startups For the Rest of Us
August 2, 2022
Bootstrapping
8
Resilience & grit
7
Branding
5
Model your runway before quitting — gut feel isn't enough.
Second-time founders still underestimate how hard the next startup is.
Reverse-engineer your brand name to land a .com from the start.