29 July 2024
This week's additions focus on marketing, leadership, and mindset, with new digests from Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth, Rob Walling, and Ryan Deiss. Highlights include Why deep ops experience makes fundamentally better product leaders Your headline should state the outcome, not describe the product
Showing 31 digests for 29 July 2024.
Building product at ops-heavy companies: lessons from Uber and Opendoor
Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth
August 4, 2024
Roadmapping
9
Processes & SOPs
8
Management
6
Why deep ops experience makes fundamentally better product leaders
How to run experiments when transaction volume is too low for AB tests
Technology should only go where leverage exists — say no everywhere else
Conversion rate optimisation
YouTube
Seven essential elements every SaaS landing page needs
Rob Walling
August 4, 2024
Conversion rate optimisation
9
Copywriting
7
Your headline should state the outcome, not describe the product
Social proof works on a spectrum from logos to video testimonials
Always show a pricing link — its absence causes high-intent visitors to bounce
A four-part meeting rhythm that replaces ad hoc chaos
Ryan Deiss
August 4, 2024
Processes & SOPs
9
Communication
6
Why annual planning is too short to be strategic.
Four rules that kill pointless meetings before they start.
One weekly scorecard habit that keeps teams aligned without extra meetings.
A scalable go-to-market framework for SaaS founders
TK Kader
August 4, 2024
Growth hacking
9
Prospecting & outreach
7
Business operating systems
5
Partners won't trust you until you've proven you can sell direct
Combine inbound marketing and outbound sales before spending on ads
ICP, manifesto, and Broadway show must come before execution
Content marketing
YouTube
Stand Out in a Saturated Market Using the 7-11 Rule
KeyPersonOfInfluence
August 4, 2024
Content marketing
9
Growth hacking
7
Identity & self-belief
5
Seven hours of content plus eleven interactions builds genuine trust.
Free value, well packaged, reliably bypasses the brain's filter.
The opposite of competition is connection, not differentiation.
The 300 Spartans and the courage that comes from love
The Daily Stoic
August 4, 2024
Origin stories
8
Resilience & grit
5
300 Spartans held a mountain pass to save Western civilization
The opposite of fear is love, not fearlessness or bravery
True heroism is selfless sacrifice for strangers and future generations
Cash flow management
YouTube
How to stop giving away margin through discounts and supplier complacency
Cameron Herold
August 3, 2024
Cash flow management
8
Pricing strategy
7
A 5% early payment discount is almost always bleeding profits unnecessarily
One phone call to a supplier can unlock 30–35% cost savings instantly
Raising prices 1–2% has an outsized, often underestimated impact on net profit
AI tools & automation
YouTube
Using AI to write and reframe social media copy
Semrush
August 2, 2024
AI tools & automation
9
Copywriting
7
Rephrasing old call-to-actions with a new tone unlocks fresh copy fast
Generate, shorten, expand, or reframe posts without leaving Semrush
Currently free in beta before becoming a paid Semrush add-on
Closing techniques
YouTube
27 years of no-bullshit sales advice for founders
Dan Martell
August 2, 2024
Closing techniques
10
Retention & loyalty
6
Prospecting & outreach
5
Why 'just following up' is the fastest way to lose a deal
The doctor frame: diagnose before prescribing, or it's malpractice
One referral question after the first win can lift quota by 30%
Resilience & grit
YouTube
Finding your way: resilience, balance, and identity in your twenties
GaryVee
August 2, 2024
Resilience & grit
10
Identity & self-belief
7
Work-life balance
6
Your relationship with losing predicts how you'll navigate life
Even good traits — patience, eagerness — become liabilities in the extreme
What goes in your ears and eyes fully dictates who you become
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Stoic adaptability: working with whatever circumstances allow
The Daily Stoic
August 2, 2024
Resilience & grit
9
Identity & self-belief
6
Meditations survived because Marcus never meant anyone to read it
Exiled three times, Musonius Rufus kept teaching and doing good
Adversity doesn't remove your capacity to act — only your excuses
Founder interviews
Podcast
How Brian Grazer built a curiosity-driven network that scaled
Masters of Scale
August 1, 2024
Founder interviews
9
Communication
6
One hour with a professor beat four years of college.
Refusing to hand papers to an assistant launched a Hollywood career.
A meeting with ODB led directly to producing 8 Mile.
Founder interviews
YouTube
How a 23-year-old built three AI consumer apps to $5M revenue
Brett Malinowski
August 1, 2024
Founder interviews
10
MVP & prototyping
7
Growth hacking
7
Two $50 influencer promos generated 200K downloads and $80K MRR immediately
ChatGPT replaced a $100K custom ML model — and wrote 95% of the code
Distribution invisibility means competition that nobody knows doesn't exist
Blue ocean strategy
YouTube
Building a faceless YouTube empire using the Blue Ocean strategy
Silicon Valley Girl
August 1, 2024
Blue ocean strategy
9
Content marketing
8
Hiring & recruitment
6
Why faceless channels outlast personal brands long-term
The McDonald's system: replace yourself step-by-step without losing quality
Launching new channels with repeatable results from day one
AI strategy & adoption
YouTube
Why every HR team needs a generative AI policy now
HR Party of One
August 1, 2024
AI strategy & adoption
8
Compliance & regulation
7
Communication
5
Your employees are already using AI — without your permission.
AI errors are the human's liability, not the machine's.
Keep your policy vague on purpose: specifics go stale fast.