3 June 2024
This week's additions focus on strategy, leadership, and mindset, with new digests from Rob Walling, TK Kader, and The Daily Stoic. Highlights include An MVP is a hypothesis experiment, not a simpler product version. Build audience and mailing list before writing a single line of code
Showing 39 digests for 3 June 2024.
MVP & prototyping
YouTube
How to plan your SaaS MVP in five steps without wasting months
Rob Walling
June 9, 2024
MVP & prototyping
9
Niche selection
6
An MVP is a hypothesis experiment, not a simpler product version.
Find 10–40 early users sharing the same small feature subset.
Phase your launch over months; charge early-access users from day one.
How to start a SaaS company: market first, then go-to-market, then product
TK Kader
June 9, 2024
Business models
9
Customer discovery
8
Prospecting & outreach
6
Build audience and mailing list before writing a single line of code
Start selling immediately — even a broken product reveals what buyers want
Front-load demo and pricing thinking to sharpen product decisions early
How Marcus Aurelius's early education shaped his Stoic character
The Daily Stoic
June 9, 2024
Origin stories
8
Relationships & family
7
Identity & self-belief
6
A painting master, not a philosopher, first set Marcus on his path.
Stoics weren't cold — their ideal was equanimity combined with deep love.
Marcus's character was built by deliberate formation, not born fully formed.
Five business types that rarely achieve escape velocity
KeyPersonOfInfluence
June 9, 2024
High-capex businesses keep recycling profit, blocking the liftoff moment.
Sexy lifestyle businesses attract loss-tolerant competitors who kill margins.
IP, media, software, and data businesses scale without proportional reinvestment.
Founder interviews
Podcast
How Uri Levine built two unicorns by falling in love with the problem
Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth
June 9, 2024
Founder interviews
9
Product-market fit
8
Niche selection
6
Retention is the only metric that proves product-market fit.
Your pitch's first slide stays on screen longest — use it.
Fire within 30 days if you wouldn't rehire — top performers leave if you don't.
Hiring & recruitment
YouTube
Hiring the right COO: types, fit, and how to make the partnership work
Cameron Herold
June 8, 2024
Hiring & recruitment
9
Management
7
Outsourcing & delegation
6
Wrong COO fit costs 15 times their annual salary in opportunity loss
Seven distinct COO types — most founders hire without knowing which they need
New senior hires should observe for 30 days before making any decisions
How Greg Isenberg built six profitable businesses using the ACP funnel
Starter Story
June 8, 2024
Business models
9
Growth hacking
8
Outsourcing & delegation
6
Build audience and community before product — or clients walk away
Charging $1.5M per client instead of $1,500 per month is possible
Diversify across six small profitable businesses for built-in resilience
Why "work hard for better pay" is a lie costing you time and money
Dr. Grace Lee
June 8, 2024
Time management
9
Identity & self-belief
7
Time is not equal to money — it is irreplaceable, money is not.
Valuing money over time leaves you with less of both.
Use money to buy back time, not time to accumulate money.
Three lessons for foreign founders building global companies
EO
June 8, 2024
Business models
8
Identity & self-belief
7
Local moats vanish in digital markets — compete globally or die
29 investor rejections reversed once ARR tripled in one summer
High-context culture habits silently sabotage US startup performance
Treating workers as whole people, not just productive resources
Bill Gallagher
June 7, 2024
Culture building
8
Management
6
19 employees bought homes after one mortgage broker session
Helping staff with life goals drives loyalty, not just perks
Treating people as whole persons is the real retention strategy
Competitive analysis
YouTube
How to run a SWOT analysis using Semrush data
Semrush
June 7, 2024
Competitive analysis
8
Niche selection
7
Customer discovery
5
Semrush replaces costly, outdated industry reports for free
Low market consolidation signals a viable small-budget entry point
Each SWOT quadrant needs one concrete action or it's useless
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
11 business biographies that shaped an entrepreneur's thinking
Dan Martell
June 7, 2024
Identity & self-belief
7
Origin stories
6
Shoe Dog and Open are the two best-written biographies on the list
Every Musk company exists as infrastructure to colonise Mars
Most business problems are personal problems showing up at work
Three steps to build and sustain company culture through core values
EOS Worldwide
June 7, 2024
Culture building
10
Hiring & recruitment
6
Use your core values speech to filter out the wrong candidates.
Annual people reviews rated against core values make culture real.
One quarterly story per value repeated over years builds lasting culture.
Accountability is a result of leadership and management, not a technique
EOS Worldwide
June 7, 2024
Management
9
Delegation
6
You cannot hold people accountable — it is a leadership output.
Five leadership practices, five management practices: do both.
Accountability follows automatically when leaders and managers excel.
Business operating systems
YouTube
The six key components of the Entrepreneurial Operating System
EOS Worldwide
June 7, 2024
Business operating systems
10
Every business problem traces to one of six fixable components
Right people in right seats requires both — one without the other fails
Vision without traction is hallucination — 90-day rocks make it real