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.
Leadership lessons from a CEO with 30 years in enterprise sales
EO
February 29, 2024
Management
9
Communication
7
Why applying one management style across all functions fails
Set context and alignment once — then let great people run
Praise publicly, give hard feedback fast and in private
Work-life balance
YouTube
Simplify your life: happiness comes from health and people, not money
GaryVee
February 29, 2024
Work-life balance
8
Motivation
6
Only those who haven't seen wealth at scale think it buys happiness.
Expecting millions at 27 leads to shortcuts — and failure.
Seek wisdom from elders; insular 'me-first' culture drives unhappiness.
Resilience & grit
YouTube
Building conviction as a founder before selling to anyone
Y Combinator
February 29, 2024
Resilience & grit
9
MVP & prototyping
7
Prospecting & outreach
5
25 cold emails is not validation — it is giving up early.
Conviction beats raw skill at coding, sales, or fundraising.
If you won't use your own MVP, don't try to sell it.
Marketing agencies should work on full commission, not retainers
Cameron Herold
February 28, 2024
Unit economics
8
Influencer & partnerships
7
Business models
5
If an agency won't work on commission, it can't prove ROI
All risk stays with the client when retainers are involved
Commission-only agencies exist — finding one is a win
Super Bowl ads, brand recovery, and friction-free commerce
GaryVee
February 28, 2024
Paid ads
8
Branding
7
Business models
6
Super Bowl ads at $7M are underpriced — consumption is guaranteed, not potential.
Bud Light lost $27B in market cap; brand recovery takes rounds, not days.
WineText sells $80 bottles for $30 by cutting friction, not quality.
Deep work & focus
Podcast
How Broadway star Andy Karl performs at peak under pressure
How I Work
February 28, 2024
Deep work & focus
9
Resilience & grit
8
Physical & cognitive performance
8
Confidence is built through repetition and ownership, not innate talent.
He performed opening night on Broadway with a fully torn ACL.
Prevention beats recovery: why not getting sick is the real health strategy.
Selling as a science: core principles from 30 years in enterprise sales
EO
February 27, 2024
B2B sales
9
Business models
6
Management
5
Speak only 30% of the time — buyers reveal everything you need.
Selling is a team sport; orchestrate experts at the right moments.
Product-led growth is still selling — best tech alone never wins.
Equity & cap tables
Podcast
Revenue vs. profit multiples, pricing cuts, and cap table basics
Startups For the Rest of Us
February 27, 2024
Equity & cap tables
9
Pricing strategy
8
Unit economics
8
Buyers switch from profit to revenue multiples only above ~$1.5M ARR
Price cuts are warranted when churn and lost deals both cite cost
Unvested co-founder equity can make your company unfundable overnight
Four mistakes that kill online businesses before year five
Sunny Lenarduzzi
February 27, 2024
Business models
9
Cash flow management
8
Sales systems & CRM
5
Building on external trends instead of your own expertise kills longevity.
Cashflow and profit matter far more than revenue or follower counts.
Early audience sales aren't a business model; lead generation is.
Content marketing
Podcast
How to repurpose audio and video content across platforms
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
February 26, 2024
Content marketing
9
AI tools & automation
7
Automation & tools
5
One recording can become clips, podcasts, blog posts, and courses.
Recycling 300+ evergreen clips keeps the algorithm working for you.
Descript, Cast Magic, and Ecamm replace a whole editing team.
Employee obsession as the real driver of business growth
Cameron Herold
February 26, 2024
Culture building
9
Management
8
Delegation
6
Employee happiness outranks customers and revenue as your top priority
Flip the org chart: CEO at bottom, frontline staff at top
CEO's real title is chief energising officer, not executive officer
Business operating systems
YouTube
How to build team vision, goals, and playbooks that stick
Semrush
February 26, 2024
Business operating systems
8
Management
7
A vague vision kills accountability — keep it one to two sentences
Every playbook must trace back to a goal or cut it
Teams execute better when they help build the framework
Deep work & focus
Podcast
How email's origins at Microsoft shaped modern workplace dysfunction
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
February 26, 2024
Deep work & focus
9
Processes & SOPs
7
Work-life balance
6
Bill Gates's 1993 hive-mind email culture was accidental, not inevitable
The real inbox killer: unscheduled messages requiring replies, not volume
You can rewind digital evolution and redesign how collaboration actually works
How the Great Boss Workshop fixes leadership accountability gaps
EOS Worldwide
February 26, 2024
Management
10
Delegation
6
Most company issues trace back to poor leading, managing, and accountability
Entrepreneurial teams rarely get formal management training — this fills that gap
Great Boss Workshop suits all levels: new, mid-level, and senior managers