19 June 2023
This week's additions focus on marketing, strategy, and founder stories, with new digests from Brett Malinowski, Rob Walling, and TK Kader. Highlights include Why chasing mastery beats chasing money every time No-code lock-in means a price hike forces a full rebuild
Showing 29 digests for 19 June 2023.
Founder interviews
YouTube
Amir Zandifar on winning mentality, extreme discipline, and long-term vision
Brett Malinowski
June 25, 2023
Founder interviews
9
Productivity & habits
9
Identity & self-belief
8
Why chasing mastery beats chasing money every time
Your belief caps your potential before effort even starts
Discipline isn't hard — eliminating distractions is
No-code SaaS platform risk: four threats founders must understand
Rob Walling
June 25, 2023
Business models
9
MVP & prototyping
6
No-code lock-in means a price hike forces a full rebuild
Platforms can change your UI overnight with no override
No-code tools are startups — consolidation will kill many
B2B SaaS go-to-market: scaling sales and marketing separately
TK Kader
June 25, 2023
Growth hacking
8
B2B sales
8
Business models
7
Most of your ideal market has never heard of you — fix that first.
You need 5X your revenue target in pipeline to hit your number.
Marketing earns attention at scale; sales converts trust into revenue.
Build Authority as a Personal Brand: Be the Spotlight, Not in It
KeyPersonOfInfluence
June 25, 2023
Branding
9
Public speaking
6
Clean every social platform — customers and employees will find them.
Awards, live events, and third-party media compound authority over time.
True influence means directing attention outward, not self-promoting.
How Ramp built the fastest-growing SaaS and fintech business
Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth
June 25, 2023
Case studies
10
Go-to-market strategy
7
Growth hacking
6
Putting engineers on sales teams cuts CAC and boosts pipeline efficiency.
Payback period beats CAC and LTV/CAC for measuring growth ROI.
Fail conclusively: maximise treatment effect so negative results close questions.
Founder interviews
YouTube
Neil Patel on wealth, giving, and not spoiling your kids
Neil Patel
June 24, 2023
Founder interviews
9
Bootstrapping
6
Compounding wealth now and giving 100% at death beats giving early
Irrevocable trust for his kids became his biggest financial mistake
Network access beats money as the real inheritance worth leaving children
How AI and adult learning will reshape education investment
EO
June 23, 2023
Market research
10
Fundraising & VC
6
AI makes rote skills obsolete — education must pivot to human capabilities
Formal learning ends at 21, but careers now demand upskilling to 100
Udemy proved teachers can earn more and learners pay less via technology
Project management
YouTube
Agile vs waterfall project management: when to use each and how to set up SmartSuite
Layla at ProcessDriven
June 23, 2023
Project management
10
Processes & SOPs
7
Agile iterates in sprints; waterfall plans everything upfront — most teams need both.
Story points use Fibonacci scale for relative effort, not time estimates.
Bug tracking and ideas backlog are worth stealing even without full agile adoption.
AI strategy & adoption
Podcast
How to inject AI into your core business before it's too late
Masters of Scale
June 22, 2023
AI strategy & adoption
9
Business models
7
Culture building
5
Waiting to adopt AI is already a losing competitive strategy.
Synthetic data and cross-functional task forces slash time to market.
Deploying AI without emotional guardrails creates real, documented harm.
What the best newsletter businesses teach about marketing funnels
Neil Patel
June 22, 2023
Funnels
9
Conversion rate optimisation
6
Agora earns $1B+/year selling newsletters — here's the real method
One cheap purchase makes upselling dramatically easier than cold acquisition
A $1 tripwire beats a free lead for lifetime customer value
SEMrush SEO Writing Assistant: create content that ranks
Semrush
June 22, 2023
SEO
8
Copywriting
7
AI tools & automation
6
Write for people and search engines at the same time.
Built-in tone check keeps your voice consistent and on-brand.
Plagiarism detection ensures every piece is unique.
Automation & tools
YouTube
How one creator organises her entire life and business in Notion
Silicon Valley Girl
June 22, 2023
Automation & tools
9
Processes & SOPs
7
AI tools & automation
5
One workspace replaces Asana, Docs, and every scattered note app
Delegation system lets new assistants inherit full context instantly
AI Autofill keeps project summaries updated without manual effort
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
Self-love, accountability, and cutting out negativity
GaryVee
June 22, 2023
Identity & self-belief
9
Goal setting
5
Recognising you lack self-love means you're already ahead of most people
Fix your environment first: cut negative people, flood inputs with positivity
Radical accountability — owning everything — multiplies your quality of life
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Stoic perseverance, lesser-known Stoic texts, and decision-making models
The Daily Stoic
June 22, 2023
Cato lost but gave everything — that is itself a Stoic victory.
Musonius Rufus and new papyrus tech may expand the Stoic canon.
Stoic rulers had options when persecuting Christians — and didn't use them.
How to use internal links to boost Google rankings
Ahrefs
June 21, 2023
Internal links can pass page rank without building new backlinks
Three conditions determine whether the strategy will work
Rank tracking with annotations reveals whether links actually helped