6 November 2023
This week's additions focus on strategy, marketing, and mindset, with new digests from Cameron Herold, Rob Walling, and TK Kader. Highlights include Why cultural fit must outweigh skills when hiring senior outside leaders Most SaaS founders are underpriced — often by 10x or more
Showing 31 digests for 6 November 2023.
Soft skills, culture, and LinkedIn content as business growth drivers
GaryVee
November 9, 2023
Culture building
9
Content marketing
8
Resilience & grit
6
Eliminating fear on your team correlates directly with growth capacity
LinkedIn organic reach is at a historic high for B2B businesses
Balancing patience with ambition separates compounding builders from sprinters
Compliance & regulation
YouTube
What HR needs to know about background checks
HR Party of One
November 9, 2023
Compliance & regulation
9
Hiring & recruitment
5
Running checks before a conditional offer can violate state law
FCRA requires a formal adverse-action process before rescinding any offer
Inaccurate results from identity theft are more common than you think
Marketplace lessons from Uber, Airbnb, Bumble, and more
Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth
November 9, 2023
Business models
10
Automation & tools
7
Iteration & feedback loops
6
Marketplaces sell friction removal — most founders misunderstand this completely.
You're not a marketplace until you have scale liquidity on both sides.
A/B testing culture rewards wins, not learning — and that's the real problem.
How to scale a virtual real estate brokerage: culture, recruiting, and retention
Cameron Herold
November 8, 2023
Culture building
9
Hiring & recruitment
8
Management
7
Happy agents recruit agents — systems alone will never scale a brokerage.
A recruiting bonus must feel winnable at three houses a year, not eight.
CEO vulnerability energises a COO; it terrifies everyone else.
Founder interviews
YouTube
Curiosity as a competitive edge: William H. Macy on craft spirits and exploration
GaryVee
November 8, 2023
Founder interviews
10
Identity & self-belief
7
Business models
5
Most people reject things they've never actually tried
Finding one thing you like and sticking to it kills growth
Trial beats marketing — great promotion exposes a bad product faster
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Doing the Unexpected and Freeing Ourselves from Fear
The Daily Stoic
November 8, 2023
Resilience & grit
9
Identity & self-belief
7
Courage is a muscle built through repetition and exposure, not an inborn trait.
Fear of losing identity and tribe prevents good people from speaking truth.
The moment you act despite fear, you realize the imagined future was worse than reality.
Vivid Vision: How to create a powerful 3–5 year company picture
Bill Gallagher
November 7, 2023
Vision & mission
9
Goal setting
6
A solo founder exercise — never a committee watered-down compromise
Visualise every sensory detail before writing, not after
Doubles as a recruiting, retention, and strategy alignment tool
Building productized agencies with creator distribution as an unfair advantage
Brett Malinowski
November 7, 2023
Business models
9
Case studies
6
Pricing strategy
5
One tweet from Ali Abdaal generated $2.5M in MRR interest
Product-audience fit beats audience size every time
Raise zero capital, use free cash flow to compound into more businesses
How Google's algorithm updates shape content and link strategy
Semrush
November 7, 2023
SEO
9
Content marketing
6
Every major Google update punishes shortcuts — quality is the only durable play
Author credentials and EAT signals now directly affect your rankings
One spotlight test reveals whether any backlink will survive the next update
Outsourcing & delegation
Podcast
Listener Q&A: Money, motivation, marketing, and technical co-founders
Startups For the Rest of Us
November 7, 2023
Outsourcing & delegation
8
Business models
7
Motivation
6
Why founders can't outsource marketing until something already works
Sunset money: the calm after selling Drip changed Rob's view of wealth
Pushing a dev to ship faster creates code that kills growth at $1M ARR
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
Self-awareness is the fastest path to your first $100,000
GaryVee
November 7, 2023
Identity & self-belief
9
Hiring & recruitment
8
Communication
7
Replace 'fastest' with 'happiest' — the answer changes everything
Any genuine passion can generate $100k through creator economics
Candor delivered with care is kindness, not cruelty
Hiring & recruitment
YouTube
Part-time vs temporary jobs: key differences and use cases
HR Party of One
November 7, 2023
ACA rules on health insurance hinge on 30 hours, not 35
Temp roles cap at one year; staffing agencies cut hiring costs
Part-time hires can reduce team burnout without full-time spend
How to host small gatherings that build real relationships
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
November 6, 2023
Communication
9
Influencer & partnerships
6
Why most networking events only work for extroverts and drunk people
A four-part framework turns any two-hour home gathering into a relationship engine
Pre-qualifying invites push attendance rates above 93% vs the usual 40%
Why gamified learning apps can't beat social media, and what works instead
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
November 6, 2023
Motivation
10
Goal setting
7
Duolingo-style gamification can't out-reward TikTok's dopamine pull.
Episodic future thinking — not streaks — is how humans beat distraction.
Vivid, value-grounded visions of the future override near-term urges.
Anna Wintour: building power beyond the magazine
Founders
November 6, 2023
Case studies
9
Productivity & habits
7
Long-term planning
6
How Wintour expanded Vogue's power into an entire industry ecosystem
Decisive in seconds: why her two-minute meeting rule shaped everything
Father's influence, founder's soul — employee who thought like an owner