22 January 2024
This week's additions focus on mindset, strategy, and founder stories, with new digests from Rob Walling, Starter Story, and TK Kader. Highlights include Features attracting wrong users damage product fit more than they help growth. A decade of failure before any semblance of success arrived
Showing 30 digests for 22 January 2024.
Feature prioritisation
YouTube
How a SaaS founder decides which features to skip
Rob Walling
January 28, 2024
Feature prioritisation
9
Product-market fit
7
Niche selection
6
Features attracting wrong users damage product fit more than they help growth.
SMS notifications: simple toggle, iceberg complexity — Zapier absorbs it instead.
The founder filter separates customer wishes from product vision.
Founder interviews
YouTube
From parent's basement to $25M: David Park and Jenny AI
Starter Story
January 28, 2024
Founder interviews
10
Growth hacking
7
Customer discovery
6
A decade of failure before any semblance of success arrived
Asking users what they dislike unlocked the growth plateau
Refusing a quick acquisition payout tripled the business in months
Product-market fit
YouTube
Product-led growth: the three metrics that actually matter
TK Kader
January 28, 2024
Product-market fit
8
Growth hacking
7
Business models
6
PLG still needs marketing — without traffic, nothing enters the funnel
Activation, not signups, predicts whether a trial converts to revenue
Start with baselines; run one or two experiments per week to improve each rate
Three Business Trends Every Entrepreneur Must Ride in 2024
KeyPersonOfInfluence
January 28, 2024
Niche selection
9
AI strategy & adoption
8
Growth hacking
6
Retiring boomers are handing over businesses with zero cash down.
AI is a general purpose technology — non-adoption is now a categorical disadvantage.
US elections reveal tomorrow's marketing tactics; 2024 is the AI election.
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Nervous system mastery: managing stress, burnout, and anxiety at work
Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth
January 28, 2024
Resilience & grit
9
Productivity & habits
7
Calm your body first — your mind will follow, not vice versa
Burnout costs startups a median $100k in hidden second-order damage
Emotional debt accumulates silently until the nervous system crashes
Four soft skills missing from most professional training
Dr. Grace Lee
January 27, 2024
Communication
9
Identity & self-belief
8
You only control two things: your actions and your perspectives.
Structure learning like a tree — prioritise trunk principles over leaf distractions.
Outward adaptability is impossible without building inner resilience first.
Resilience & grit
YouTube
Cynicism and envy are killing your drive — how to rebuild optimism
Brendon Burchard
January 26, 2024
Resilience & grit
9
Motivation
8
Identity & self-belief
7
High distrust is the single biggest predictor of a low bank account
Cynicism is the top reason people with real opportunity fail to use it
Installing new thoughts beats analysing old ones — enthusiasm and courage replace envy
Productivity & habits
YouTube
Eight-step morning routine for high-performance CEOs
Dan Martell
January 26, 2024
Productivity & habits
9
Deep work & focus
6
Start the night before: journals clear open loops for deep sleep
Create before you react — deep work happens before the world wakes
Cold plunge and daily exercise exhaust the body to calm the mind
Founder interviews
YouTube
How Philz Coffee grew from one store to 80 on culture and instinct
EO
January 26, 2024
Founder interviews
9
Culture building
7
Hiring & recruitment
5
Palestinian hospitality — not coffee — is Philz's actual product.
Quality collapsed past 10 stores until first-principles thinking fixed it.
Avoiding stupid decisions beats seeking brilliance, per Charlie Munger.
Writing SOPs that match your DISC personality type
Layla at ProcessDriven
January 26, 2024
Processes & SOPs
9
Identity & self-belief
6
Your personality type determines the SOP method that actually works for you.
Conversational capture: talk through a process and type as you go.
Turn every incoming question into an SOP instead of just answering it.
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
Social media, redefining success, and building a life you don't need to escape
GaryVee
January 25, 2024
Identity & self-belief
10
Motivation
9
Social media
7
Social media is free distribution — not using it is leaving opportunity on the table.
Earning less doing work you love beats high pay in work you hate.
Avoiding hard feedback doesn't prevent fear — it creates it across your whole team.
Compliance & regulation
YouTube
What OSHA is, why it exists, and what employers must do
HR Party of One
January 25, 2024
Compliance & regulation
10
Processes & SOPs
5
OSHA was born from disasters that killed hundreds of workers
Every employer must meet minimum safety standards — or face criminal charges
Three specific forms determine whether you're legally recordkeeping injuries
Founder interviews
Podcast
Jim Koch on building enduring drinks brands through creative risk-taking
How I Built This with Guy Raz
January 25, 2024
Founder interviews
9
Product-market fit
8
Niche selection
6
Great products find the wrong audience first — then reveal the right one
The 'fourth category' beyond beer, wine, spirits is Boston Beer's blue ocean
Twisted Tea and Angry Orchard each took decades of failure before succeeding
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Stoic path to happiness and building direct customer relationships
The Daily Stoic
January 25, 2024
Resilience & grit
9
Business models
8
Long-term planning
6
Regulate emotions first — happiness is the byproduct, not the goal
Own your customer relationship; fewer middlemen means more trust and margin
Explosive opportunities live where timely trends meet timeless human needs
Geoffrey Moore on the technology adoption lifecycle and crossing the chasm
Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth
January 25, 2024
Market research
9
B2B sales
8
Business models
6
Pragmatists reject visionaries as references — that gap is the chasm
One narrow segment, dominated completely, is the only way across
Wrong playbook for the phase actively destroys deals and credibility