15 August 2022
This week's additions focus on strategy, leadership, and mindset, with new digests from TK Kader, Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth, and Layla at ProcessDriven. Highlights include Why outsourcing go-to-market almost always fails early-stage founders Why most companies unknowingly run feature factories, not product teams
Showing 20 digests for 15 August 2022.
Eight DOs and DON'Ts for growing a SaaS startup
TK Kader
August 21, 2022
Business models
9
Prospecting & outreach
7
Why outsourcing go-to-market almost always fails early-stage founders
One ICP beats many: narrow focus accelerates growth to the next milestone
Customer success before a second sales hire prevents a leaky revenue bucket
Customer discovery
Podcast
Feature teams vs. product teams: Marty Cagan on building products that matter
Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth
August 21, 2022
Customer discovery
9
Management
6
Why most companies unknowingly run feature factories, not product teams
Steve Jobs' 1995 theory on why good companies lose their product culture
The three things a PM must never delegate, no matter the org structure
What a process is and why you already have one
Layla at ProcessDriven
August 19, 2022
A process is just a path to a defined result.
Your daily habits are already processes — recognition comes first.
Identifying processes unlocks improvement, delegation, and automation.
Seven quick SEO wins that are easy to implement
Neil Patel
August 18, 2022
SEO
9
Content marketing
6
Fix SEO errors ranked by impact first — biggest gains, least effort.
A $20 white-labelled tool can generate thousands of backlinks naturally.
Deleting irrelevant pages and merging duplicate content lifts rankings fast.
Buying a Miami condo as an investment: does the math work?
Silicon Valley Girl
August 18, 2022
A $1M Miami condo can just break even on Airbnb rental income
Appreciation doubled many units in two years — but that's slowing
Slower Miami pace may not suit high-output founders long-term
Business operating systems
YouTube
The integrator's role in owning the business operating system
EOS Worldwide
August 18, 2022
Business operating systems
10
Management
6
Mixing operating systems creates confusion — pick one and master it
The integrator cascades the system level by level through the whole company
A single accessible book can make company-wide EOS rollout far easier
Edwin Land: obsession, invention, and the making of Polaroid
Founders
August 18, 2022
Origin stories
10
Deep work & focus
9
Identity & self-belief
6
Twenty years of failure before instant photography made Land a billionaire
His daughter's innocent question sparked the invention that saved Polaroid
Intense concentration was Land's only superpower — and he taught it deliberately
How HR can help small businesses fight inflation
HR Party of One
August 18, 2022
Processes & SOPs
8
Hiring & recruitment
6
Cash flow management
5
HR's dual finance-and-people role makes it the inflation point person
Audit space, vendors, and open roles before raising prices or wages
Low-cost perks can retain talent when pay rises aren't possible
How to name, position, and build a brand for your startup
Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth
August 18, 2022
Branding
10
Vision & mission
6
Bad names don't kill good companies — great positioning does.
A three-week brand sprint saves months of downstream decision-making.
The bar test: if you wouldn't say it at a bar, cut it.
Cash flow management
YouTube
How to protect and grow wealth during a recession
Noah Kagan
August 17, 2022
Cash flow management
9
Market research
6
Bootstrapping
5
Cash-flowing websites sell at 3x earnings vs. S&P 500 at 16x
Boring index funds beat flashy allocations over 50-year horizons
Recessions create the innovations the next decade runs on
How Amazon built its dominance from a Seattle garage to a trillion-dollar empire
Acquired
August 16, 2022
Origin stories
10
Business models
8
Cash flow management
6
Amazon's negative cash conversion cycle financed its entire logistics empire without investors
Why Barnes & Noble and eBay were both right — just on different time horizons
Prime's Costco-inspired psychology: paying to shop makes customers fanatically loyal
Balancing creative experimentation and purposeful direction to scale ideas
Masters of Scale
August 16, 2022
Vision & mission
9
Case studies
8
Management
6
Why asking 'why' before 'what' separates great products from expensive failures.
How Steve Jobs used strategic commitment, not chaos, to ship the iPod.
Turning a neglected thermostat into a desirable gift by caring about the problem.
How to find, shape, and tell stories that connect
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
August 16, 2022
Public speaking
9
Copywriting
5
Internal change — not external events — makes a story worth telling.
Prepare from remembered scenes, not memorised words, to stay present.
The same event becomes a different story depending on the lens you choose.
How async-first remote work outperforms office and hybrid models
Startups For the Rest of Us
August 16, 2022
Processes & SOPs
8
Remote teams
8
Deep work & focus
6
Async orgs run 50% fewer managers than on-premise equivalents.
Flow state, not metrics, is the only reliable measure of engineer output.
Remote work and work-from-home are fundamentally different — conflating them kills adoption.
Compliance & regulation
YouTube
How long HR must keep employee records and why it matters
HR Party of One
August 16, 2022
Compliance & regulation
9
I-9s, payroll, and tax records each have different federal retention clocks.
Tax records require 4 years; payroll records require at least 3.
HRIS systems reduce compliance risk and simplify employee acknowledgements.