This week's additions focus on strategy, marketing, and leadership, with new digests from TK Kader, Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth, and Neil Patel. Highlights include Download volume is a vanity metric — activation rate is what matters Build company infrastructure earlier than feels necessary — or tear it down later.

Contracts & agreements

YouTube

Five ways your team is putting your SaaS company at risk

Dan Martell February 27, 2023

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Contracts & agreements 9

Cybersecurity basics 8

Processes & SOPs 6

• No signed agreement can let a contractor claim your codebase at exit.
• A developer who owns your GitHub repo can hold you to ransom.
• Employees unknowingly hand third-party apps full access to your CRM data.

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Pivoting

Podcast

What if algorithmic internet platforms disappeared overnight?

Deep Questions with Cal Newport February 27, 2023

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Pivoting 7

Work-life balance 6

• Killing algorithmic curation wouldn't destroy the internet — most of it survives
• A DIY human internet already exists: newsletters, podcasts, self-hosted sites
• AR glasses will make every screen permanently one hand-swipe away

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Case studies

Podcast

Daniel Ludwig: how the world's richest unknown man built a global empire

Founders February 27, 2023

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Case studies 10

Business models 8

Fundraising & VC 6

• How Ludwig used other people's credit to build ships for free
• Near-bankrupt at 34, a billionaire ten years later — same assets, different war
• Why a luxury yacht earned more than any tanker in his fleet

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