5 June 2023
This week's additions focus on mindset, leadership, and strategy, with new digests from Brett Malinowski, Cameron Herold, and TK Kader. Highlights include Leads are a commodity — solving clients' whole business is the moat Observe for 30 days — write everything down, change nothing.
Showing 31 digests for 5 June 2023.
Prospecting & outreach
YouTube
How a 22-year-old built a $3M/year hybrid SMMA for real estate agents
Brett Malinowski
June 11, 2023
Prospecting & outreach
9
Processes & SOPs
9
Business models
9
Leads are a commodity — solving clients' whole business is the moat
Enrollment interviews and anti-buyers-remorse calls cut churn dramatically
From suicidal dropout to $3M/year: realization beats belief every time
Building a strong COO-CEO relationship in the first 90 days
Cameron Herold
June 11, 2023
Processes & SOPs
9
Management
8
Long-term planning
6
Observe for 30 days — write everything down, change nothing.
Small, visible wins in month three build lasting credibility.
CEO trust grows through genuine friendship, not just alignment.
AI tools & automation
YouTube
Three AI co-pilot SaaS ideas you can build this weekend
TK Kader
June 11, 2023
AI tools & automation
9
Business models
7
MVP & prototyping
6
One pattern — pick a buyer, tap their API, add an LLM — yields three distinct products.
Salespeople, marketers, and CEOs each have data they can't interrogate alone.
Shipping a $30/month MVP beats spending months building the wrong product.
Building a long and meaningful PM career: Nikhyl Singhal's framework
Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth
June 11, 2023
Management
8
Goal setting
7
Identity & self-belief
6
Catching the rabbit kills your career — design your next North Star before you need it.
X-growth companies burn employee equity while searching for product-market fit they may never find.
Your biggest executive blind spot hides in the shadow of your strongest superpower.
10 marketing hacks to grow traffic and build a personal brand
Neil Patel
June 10, 2023
Growth hacking
9
Content marketing
8
Social media
7
Give away free what competitors charge for — zero ad spend required.
Early comments, not likes, are the real LinkedIn and TikTok virality trigger.
Responding to every comment is what turns followers into paying customers.
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
Finding new direction when dreams, plans, and plateaus hit
GaryVee
June 9, 2023
Identity & self-belief
10
Delegation
6
Pivoting
5
Plateaus have ~45 causes — diagnosis beats motivation every time
Competitiveness lost at athletic retirement maps directly to entrepreneurship
Family businesses only survive when empathy outweighs ego
Competitive analysis
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How to build a living competitor analysis in SmartSuite
Layla at ProcessDriven
June 9, 2023
Competitive analysis
8
Automation & tools
7
Spreadsheet competitor reports get ignored — here's the fix
Action items from research flow straight into team task lists
Share real-time views with investors without exporting anything
AI strategy & adoption
Podcast
How to use AI as a co-pilot without losing your judgment
Masters of Scale
June 8, 2023
AI strategy & adoption
9
Identity & self-belief
6
Communication
5
AI will not think harder unless you direct it harder
Building with AI beats using it — proximity to models is the edge
Add friction deliberately: critical thinking is the skill AI cannot replace
Founder interviews
YouTube
Overcoming fear, taking risks, and finding what drives you
GaryVee
June 8, 2023
Founder interviews
10
Resilience & grit
8
Identity & self-belief
6
Your 20s are the lowest-cost time to take big risks
Childhood scarcity can permanently dissolve fear of losing money
Anonymous 4 a.m. grinders — not billionaires — are the real inspiration
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Treating every day as a bonus: Stoic wisdom on mortality and judgment
The Daily Stoic
June 8, 2023
Resilience & grit
9
Productivity & habits
7
Identity & self-belief
5
Seneca's nightly death meditation turns every morning into a bonus
Marcus Aurelius lost six children before choosing the disastrous Commodus
Future generations will judge our blind spots just as we judge the Stoics'
Automation & tools
YouTube
Point solution vs. all-in-one HR systems: how to choose
HR Party of One
June 8, 2023
Multiple HR point solutions create login chaos and data transfer errors
All-in-one systems auto-sync payroll, PTO, and benefits — eliminating manual handoffs
Point solutions cost more long-term and should only supplement an HRIS
How COOs and founders can scale faster by outsourcing everything except genius
Cameron Herold
June 7, 2023
Delegation
8
Vision & mission
7
Outsourcing & delegation
6
A one-sentence mission statement cannot align a growing team.
Delegate by hourly rate, not by gut feel or personality profile.
Training your managers multiplies faster than training yourself.
Using industry conferences to break into new fields as a creator
Silicon Valley Girl
June 7, 2023
Pivoting
9
Case studies
7
Cannes is a fashion and creator conference, not just film
One week there yielded three Dior executives and two direct intros
Go where your next level lives — but only once you have something to offer
Founder interviews
YouTube
How one founder built an $11M brand with sex chocolate and UGC
Starter Story
June 7, 2023
Founder interviews
9
Growth hacking
8
MVP & prototyping
5
A product that triggers emotional arousal goes viral without ad spend
Hundreds of paid UGC creators posting daily replaced a traditional ad budget
Brand equity compounds across new drops; dropshipping builds nothing
Hiring & recruitment
YouTube
Creative methods from Pixar and animation studios
EO
June 7, 2023
Hiring & recruitment
8
Iteration & feedback loops
8
Vision & mission
5
Pixar's secret weapon is relentless iteration, not individual brilliance
Humility and openness to notes separates sustainable creators from talented ones
Strong-willed collaborators work best when given freedom, not constant direction