15 July 2024
This week's additions focus on mindset, strategy, and leadership, with new digests from Rob Walling, Ryan Deiss, and Dylan Davis. Highlights include Pricing is the biggest lever — one number change can unlock overnight growth. Three hidden spend categories quietly drain cash as companies scale
Showing 34 digests for 15 July 2024.
How pattern-breaking founders identify inflections and build movements
Masters of Scale
July 18, 2024
Niche selection
9
Founder interviews
8
Identity & self-belief
6
Inflections are the founder's weapon — not just a threat to incumbents.
Force a choice, not a comparison: polarising ideas beat universally liked ones.
AI is a sea change to mass cognition, but most startups lack structural insight.
Mastering public speaking by confronting fear and putting in the reps
Brendon Burchard
July 18, 2024
Public speaking
9
Resilience & grit
7
Fear of public speaking shrinks only through repeated exposure, not insight.
Burchard compressed a full speech down to five words on an index card.
Celebrating the act of doing it — not the outcome — is what builds momentum.
13 years of business lessons every first-time founder needs
Silicon Valley Girl
July 18, 2024
Goal setting
9
Long-term planning
8
Prospecting & outreach
6
Know your founder type — passion-driven or idea-iterating — before you start.
Set a concrete stop metric upfront so you know when to quit or continue.
Delegate too late and you stay stuck in execution instead of strategy.
Business operating systems
YouTube
Managing quarterly priorities with EOS One
EOS Worldwide
July 18, 2024
Business operating systems
9
Processes & SOPs
6
One platform for company, department, and individual 90-day Rocks
Built-in blocker flagging keeps teams from stalling mid-quarter
Meeting-integrated tracking builds a culture of traction
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
How to build a creator career: platform agnostic, message first
GaryVee
July 18, 2024
Identity & self-belief
9
Content marketing
8
Business models
6
Your authentic interpretation of any idea is your competitive monopoly.
Social shifted from follower-reach to interest-graph — most creators haven't adapted.
Self-discipline is the only parenting lever that actually works.
Resilience & grit
YouTube
Building mental resilience to turn personal adversity into business strength
Bill Gallagher
July 17, 2024
Resilience & grit
9
Identity & self-belief
7
Motivation
6
Trying to restore the status quo after crisis guarantees a second crisis.
Be neutral about current problems; get emotionally invested in future goals.
Simultaneous cancer diagnoses — son and self — navigated through radical openness.
How to use emojis in marketing without hurting your brand
Semrush
July 17, 2024
Wrong emoji can make a professional brand look tone-deaf instantly.
Emoji meanings shift by country, culture, and generation — research first.
Google ignores emojis for SEO, but A/B tests show click-rate gains.
Conflict resolution
YouTube
How EOS helps nonprofits build a culture of honest communication
EOS Worldwide
July 17, 2024
Conflict resolution
9
Business operating systems
6
EOS turns conflict avoidance into structured, healthy team dialogue.
Sky High for Kids CEO shares how hard conversations became a strength.
Open, honest communication in the moment as a practiced discipline.
How to track priorities objectively using counts and punch lists
Bill Gallagher
July 16, 2024
Processes & SOPs
8
Management
6
Subjective % complete and colour status are almost always wrong
Count actions or check off milestones for objective progress tracking
Design tracking upfront — a peer or coach accelerates this
Five micro-SaaS businesses reaching $100k/month with AI and no-code
Brett Malinowski
July 16, 2024
Case studies
10
Business models
7
AI tools & automation
6
Presell before building to validate demand and eliminate risk
Find content that already goes viral, then build the product it shows
Creator partnerships can deliver instant product-market fit at launch
How Astalti reached seven-figure ARR in 18 months with vertical SaaS
Startups For the Rest of Us
July 16, 2024
Case studies
10
Pricing strategy
8
MVP & prototyping
7
Developer plus domain-expert co-founder is the ideal vertical SaaS founding team.
Free Chrome extension and free CRM tier built pipeline before any paid launch.
Quiet tier launch converted 30% of existing users at higher price within a week.
Cash flow management
YouTube
What bad debt is and how to manage it in your business
HR Party of One
July 16, 2024
Cash flow management
9
Compliance & regulation
6
Bad debt is unavoidable — but deductible if you act correctly
IRS splits bad debt into business and non-business categories
Proactive AR monitoring cuts losses before they compound
Identity & self-belief
Podcast
Rewriting the stories that hold you back: the Mind Your Mindset framework
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
July 15, 2024
Identity & self-belief
9
Resilience & grit
6
Your brain runs a narrator that mistakes its stories for facts
Three-step process: identify, interrogate, then rewrite the story
Neuroplasticity means no negative thought pattern is permanent
Starbucks' simplified situational leadership model for managers
Cameron Herold
July 15, 2024
Management
9
Delegation
5
Why the same person needs different leadership on different tasks
A 15-minute model that replaces days of situational leadership training
Praising a high-performer feels patronising — here's when to stop
Work-life balance
YouTube
Spending down your wealth before you die: Bill Perkins on living fully
Noah Kagan
July 15, 2024
Work-life balance
9
Founder interviews
7
Bootstrapping
5
Saving money on autopilot guarantees a wasted life
Health gates experience — spend while your body can deliver full value
Fame is 1000x more powerful than money, and destroys freedom