26 February 2024
This week's additions focus on strategy, leadership, and mindset, with new digests from Cameron Herold, Rob Walling, and Starter Story. Highlights include Each company needs its own team and budget before you step back. 500 apps, 186,000 customers — a wide-open gap for new builders
Showing 29 digests for 26 February 2024.
How to run multiple companies without stealing from each
Cameron Herold
March 3, 2024
Management
9
Processes & SOPs
7
Cash flow management
5
Each company needs its own team and budget before you step back.
Two or three visible metrics per function; the rest stay hidden.
Leaders who speak last get better ideas from their teams.
Five micro SaaS ideas to build on the monday.com marketplace
Rob Walling
March 3, 2024
Niche selection
9
MVP & prototyping
6
500 apps, 186,000 customers — a wide-open gap for new builders
Marketplaces let first-timers skip the hardest part: distribution
Five concrete ideas: quick item add, short links, dependency maps, AI doc converter, slides generator
From waiter to $30M: how Kalo built the silicone wedding ring market
Starter Story
March 3, 2024
Origin stories
10
MVP & prototyping
7
Market research
6
Two broke waiters hand-trimmed 50,000 defective rings with eyebrow scissors
One cold message to an NFL player's wife led to an HBO segment and 3x sales
First-mover urgency drove 0 to $30M before better-funded rivals could enter
Data-backed go-to-market for scalable SaaS growth
TK Kader
March 3, 2024
Business models
8
Conversion rate optimisation
8
Product-market fit
6
Three metrics diagnose exactly where your GTM machine is broken
Below 20% conversion rate means fix messaging before spending more
Win rate by channel reveals which traffic actually drives revenue
Five red flags that signal a failing business strategy
KeyPersonOfInfluence
March 3, 2024
Niche selection
8
Growth hacking
7
Business models
6
Geographic positioning caps your market and blocks your best hires.
Founders obsessing over supply before demand is the costliest distraction.
Business models with a natural end date destroy lifetime customer value.
How Meta's CTO thinks about leadership, communication, and building at scale
Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth
March 3, 2024
Communication
9
Management
8
Resilience & grit
6
Communication is the job — if it didn't land, that's on you
Ask your manager for help more; they want you to succeed
Curiosity, not defensiveness, is the antidote to identity threat
AI strategy & adoption
YouTube
Three principles for staying relevant as AI advances
Dr. Grace Lee
March 2, 2024
AI strategy & adoption
9
Resilience & grit
7
Management
5
Fear of AI mirrors every past technology panic — the pattern is predictable.
Nuanced empathy and critical thinking stay irreplaceable; leverage them alongside AI.
Self-governance is the prerequisite — emotional volatility blocks you from seeing opportunity.
Execution over consumption: Gary Vee on action, regret, and goals
GaryVee
March 2, 2024
Motivation
8
Goal setting
6
Consuming motivation without acting on it produces zero results
Regret comes from living by others' opinions, not your own
Hold big goals seriously while emotionally preparing for them to fail
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
Six traits shared by over a thousand millionaires
Dan Martell
March 1, 2024
Identity & self-belief
9
Productivity & habits
7
Long-term planning
6
Real millionaires hold cash after tax — not equity or revenue
Asymmetric risk: protect the downside, leave the upside uncapped
Your bank account reflects how far ahead you plan
14 profitable business ideas built on growing markets
Silicon Valley Girl
March 1, 2024
Niche selection
10
Business models
7
Market choice matters more than execution — pick growth.
AI consulting is a $55B market growing to $450B by 2031.
Spatial video is the early-mover opportunity of the VR wave.
How WEBIT Used EOS to Tame a Visionary and Reach $5M
EOS Worldwide
March 1, 2024
Case studies
10
Business operating systems
7
Management
6
Unchecked visionary energy tanked client experience before EOS intervened
Integrator ran the company on EOS secretly — then revealed it once it worked
Professional implementer converted complaint-fests into real accountability
Identity & self-belief
Podcast
Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant: the mentality behind winning
Founders
March 1, 2024
Identity & self-belief
10
Resilience & grit
9
Management
5
Why both Jordan and Kobe refused to lower their standard for anyone
Trash talk was self-imposed pressure, not intimidation of opponents
The biggest mistake in life is thinking you have time
Three steps to cross-train your team before the next emergency
Layla at ProcessDriven
March 1, 2024
Processes & SOPs
10
Delegation
7
Document critical processes as SOPs before the knowledge holder disappears.
Use a three-phase I do / we do / you do model to build real competence.
A recurring practice schedule is the step most teams skip — and why training fails.
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
Two superpowers that determine whether you achieve your goals
Brendon Burchard
February 29, 2024
Identity & self-belief
9
Resilience & grit
7
Self-regulation is a trainable dial, not a fixed emotional state.
Shyness is a trait; social influence is a skill anyone can build.
Your goal list matters less than summoning the best of who you are.
Closing techniques
YouTube
How a 23-year-old built a multi-million dollar sales training business
Brett Malinowski
February 29, 2024
Closing techniques
9
Case studies
8
Business models
6
No-experience sales skill that pays six figures from day one
Every objection is fear — one reframe process dissolves them all
Full funnel: personal brand, setter, closer, onboarding in sequence