1 July 2024
This week's additions focus on mindset, strategy, and leadership, with new digests from Rob Walling, Ryan Deiss, and TK Kader. Highlights include Three co-founders outgrow solo and duo teams by 2–3x on average Surplus cash in your operating account will always get spent
Showing 32 digests for 1 July 2024.
Seven surprising SaaS benchmarks from the 2024 State of Independent SaaS report
Rob Walling
July 7, 2024
Unit economics
9
Product-market fit
7
Growth hacking
6
Three co-founders outgrow solo and duo teams by 2–3x on average
No-credit-card free trials yield 2x the lifetime value despite slower initial growth
Enterprise and mid-market grow 5x faster than consumer and government segments
Cash flow management
YouTube
How to build a cashflow waterfall system for your business
Ryan Deiss
July 7, 2024
Cash flow management
10
Processes & SOPs
6
Surplus cash in your operating account will always get spent
Distribute 80% quarterly — distributions force business discipline
Fund tax savings and a 3-month emergency reserve before anything else
How to build a differentiated B2B value proposition in three steps
TK Kader
July 7, 2024
Niche selection
9
Branding
7
Customers buy outcomes, not software — lead with the result.
One sentence, one ICP, no commas: the formula that forces specificity.
Swap your name for Salesforce — if it still fits, you're not differentiated.
Four-product ecosystem framework for sustainable business profit
KeyPersonOfInfluence
July 7, 2024
Business models
9
Iteration & feedback loops
6
One product doesn't make money — a four-product ecosystem does
Porsche earns 40–50% margins on finance, not 4–5% on cars
Recurring post-purchase revenue drives valuation more than core sales
Pattern Breakers: How breakthrough startup ideas really work
Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth
July 7, 2024
Vision & mission
9
Communication
7
Founder interviews
6
Startups win by forcing a choice, not a comparison with incumbents.
Breakthrough ideas need an inflection, a non-consensus insight, and founder-future fit.
Willingness to fail is the literal prerequisite for any breakthrough success.
Five simple rules for running effective meetings
Cameron Herold
July 6, 2024
Communication
9
Processes & SOPs
6
Meetings don't suck — we've just never been trained to run them.
No agenda, no attenda: structure every meeting with purpose and time limits.
Written messages strip intonation — meetings exist to kill miscommunication.
Finding direction, meaning, and motivation when you feel lost
Dan Martell
July 6, 2024
Motivation
9
Goal setting
8
Identity & self-belief
6
Your purpose lives right next to the worst thing that happened to you.
Dark energy proves people wrong; light energy multiplies your output tenfold.
Retirement at peak wisdom is the worst time to exit the market.
ABCs for leading your team through economic uncertainty
Dr. Grace Lee
July 6, 2024
Management
9
Resilience & grit
6
Align with C-suite strategy; translate direction into team goals.
Transparency and clear accountability bolster trust and productivity.
Project calm certainty outwardly even amid unresolved internal doubts.
FURSYS: Korea's top office furniture brand enters the US market
EO
July 6, 2024
Case studies
9
Market research
7
Branding
5
US offices are built for connection, not work — brands don't matter
Second-gen CEO shifted from pure quality obsession to global marketing
IDEO research revealed hybrid work demands furniture with home-office fluidity
Productivity & habits
YouTube
Health and performance: the common enemies blocking your energy
Brendon Burchard
July 5, 2024
Productivity & habits
9
Resilience & grit
6
Most stress is self-manufactured — you can decide to stop producing it.
Seed oils in snacks silently destroy your gut, hormones, and energy.
Superiority and stubbornness block health change more than ignorance does.
Marketing in the attention economy: social, streaming, and creative truth
GaryVee
July 5, 2024
Social media
9
Content marketing
8
Market research
5
Organic social is a qualitative research tool, not just a distribution channel
Tubi ties Disney in streaming minutes with a fraction of the budget
Incumbents only change when they feel pain — disruption is inevitable
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Ron Howard on evolving your creative vision through constant change
Masters of Scale
July 4, 2024
Why constraints are leverage, not limits, for realising your vision
How a failed streaming startup directly spawned Arrested Development
Saying no to powerful partners who pull you away from your core vision
Productivity & habits
YouTube
Five productivity rules for founders balancing business and family
Silicon Valley Girl
July 4, 2024
Productivity & habits
8
Outsourcing & delegation
7
AI tools & automation
6
Batch tasks by type so context-switching costs are paid once
Hiring abroad at $10–15/hour unlocks delegation without a large budget
Forced productivity routines backfire when your constraints are non-standard
Bernard Arnault: building LVMH into the world's largest luxury empire
Founders
July 4, 2024
Case studies
10
Business models
8
Hiring & recruitment
6
How Arnault turned a bankrupt Dior into a €9.5B empire
Raising prices 4x after acquiring Tiffany — and why it worked
Owning rivals' real estate to lock them out of the best locations
Founder interviews
Podcast
Brett Schulman of CAVA gives advice to early-stage founders
How I Built This with Guy Raz
July 4, 2024
Founder interviews
9
Resilience & grit
7
Long-term planning
6
Imposter syndrome signals self-awareness, not incompetence — embrace it.
Doing fewer things better is what turns around a struggling business.
Raise capital only after defining exactly what you want the business to become.