17 June 2024
This week's additions focus on mindset, strategy, and operations, with new digests from Rob Walling, Founders, and TK Kader. Highlights include Find ideas by sourcing complaints from founders and niche communities No fast formulas: wealth comes from decades of disciplined ownership
Showing 33 digests for 17 June 2024.
8 niche SaaS problems worth exploring in 2024
Rob Walling
June 23, 2024
Niche selection
8
Product-market fit
6
Find ideas by sourcing complaints from founders and niche communities
Simple digital asset managers start at $438/month — massive gap for startups
Competitors in your space are a green flag, not a red one
Long-term planning
Podcast
J. Paul Getty's principles for building lasting business wealth
Founders
June 23, 2024
Long-term planning
9
Resilience & grit
8
Processes & SOPs
6
No fast formulas: wealth comes from decades of disciplined ownership
Align incentives so employees think like owners, not employees
Non-conformity is the most priceless quality a businessman can possess
Go-to-market strategy for AI and SaaS companies in a noisy market
TK Kader
June 23, 2024
Branding
8
Niche selection
7
Content marketing
5
Saying 'we have AI' no longer generates leads or pipeline.
Lead with the result you deliver, not features or technology.
Consistent messaging to a precise ICP beats scattered execution every time.
Compliance & regulation
Podcast
Five cyber security habits every small business owner needs
How I Work
June 23, 2024
Compliance & regulation
7
Automation & tools
5
80% of small businesses have habits that invite cyber attacks
Sleep mode skips security updates — nightly shutdowns install them
Passphrases plus a password manager stop one breach becoming many
Closing techniques
YouTube
A step-by-step sales meeting framework for high conversion rates
KeyPersonOfInfluence
June 23, 2024
Closing techniques
9
Objection handling
6
Sharing expertise before pitching is the step most salespeople skip
Permission-based discovery removes pressure and builds trust fast
End every meeting professionally — prioritise relationship over transaction
Leading with curiosity and authenticity: lessons from Ami Vora
Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth
June 23, 2024
Management
9
Customer discovery
7
Identity & self-belief
5
Responding to disagreement with genuine curiosity tears down walls faster than argument.
Execution beats strategy — customers see the product, never the whiteboard.
Senior leaders only face unsolvable problems; visible decisions are always suboptimal.
Hiring & recruitment
YouTube
Low-cost strategies to scale a service business: hiring, margins, and growth
Cameron Herold
June 22, 2024
Hiring & recruitment
9
Unit economics
8
Business models
7
Pay at the 85th percentile or keep losing candidates to competitors
Bill every minute of labour — insurance companies only pay what you itemise
Acquire 60-year-old competitors with no money down instead of greenfielding
How Castmagic grew an AI app from zero to $120K MRR in ten months
Starter Story
June 22, 2024
Case studies
9
Bootstrapping
7
Influencer & partnerships
6
AppSumo lifetime deal generated $350K and 10,000 users in days
Keep marketing spend under 20% of revenue to stay profitable
Workflow platforms beat point tools — ChatGPT can't replace end-to-end solutions
Resilience & grit
YouTube
Attention, accountability, and patience: Gary Vaynerchuk on what actually drives success
GaryVee
June 22, 2024
Resilience & grit
9
Identity & self-belief
8
Motivation
7
True accountability — owning your outcomes — is the path to happiness.
Impatience almost always traces back to insecurity, not ambition.
TikTokification means content quality now beats follower count.
Content marketing
YouTube
Building a LinkedIn presence to break into marketing with no experience
Semrush
June 21, 2024
Content marketing
10
Branding
7
Identity & self-belief
5
Posting content about your target niche replaces a CV for many hires.
Recruiters only see your photo and first 10 headline words — make them count.
A top-100 dream people list built on personalised outreach compounds your network.
How to build a $1M business that runs without you
Dan Martell
June 21, 2024
Management
9
Delegation
7
Processes & SOPs
6
Know your team's dreams — great people need a vision big enough to hold their goals.
High effectiveness, low values = remove immediately; no exceptions.
List every team frustration, then build a 60-minute training for each one.
Outsourcing & delegation
YouTube
How to hire a benefits broker for your business
HR Party of One
June 21, 2024
Outsourcing & delegation
9
Cash flow management
6
Bad brokers appear once a year — only at open enrollment
Benefits are your biggest expense after payroll; broker choice matters
Great brokers provide year-round service, HR consulting, and technology
Founder interviews
Podcast
How Noah Kagan built AppSumo to $100M without Silicon Valley rules
Masters of Scale
June 20, 2024
Founder interviews
10
Bootstrapping
8
Business models
7
Why slow, organic growth outperformed every hypergrowth attempt at AppSumo
Calculate your 'freedom number' before you quit your job — not after
One Dropbox giveaway drove 250K signups by noon — worth $50M in acquisition
AI tools & automation
YouTube
Nine AI tools a content creator uses daily to save time and money
Silicon Valley Girl
June 20, 2024
AI tools & automation
9
Automation & tools
7
Opus Clip cuts your long video into ranked short clips automatically
Custom GPTs can reply to brand emails in your own voice
HeyGen clones your avatar to produce multilingual videos without re-recording
Business operating systems
YouTube
AI, attention, and why most companies are already behind
GaryVee
June 20, 2024
Business operating systems
8
AI strategy & adoption
8
Social media
6
Brands will replace human influencers with cheaper, controllable AI versions
Execution roles in creative are already being automated — idea people survive
Organic social is the most underpriced marketing channel most companies ignore