5 August 2024
This week's additions focus on mindset, leadership, and marketing, with new digests from TK Kader, KeyPersonOfInfluence, and Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth. Highlights include Start with market and jobs-to-be-done — never code first. Most founders are stuck at level one — daily AI use only.
Showing 33 digests for 5 August 2024.
Saalt CEO on selling freedom and confidence to women
EOS Worldwide
August 7, 2024
Case studies
9
Design thinking
6
Branding
5
Absorbent underwear replaces panty liners without feeling like a diaper
Bladder leaks are common for mothers but rarely spoken about openly
Saalt's mission: sell freedom and confidence, not just a product
The Nobel family: how Ludwig and Alfred built Russia's oil empire
Founders
August 7, 2024
Case studies
10
Business models
7
Processes & SOPs
6
Ludwig Nobel invented the oil tanker and built Russia's entire petroleum industry.
Bankruptcy lessons from their father made Ludwig and Alfred obsessive cost controllers.
The Bolsheviks destroyed in days what took the Nobels 80 years to build.
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
Self-awareness is the real key to making money
GaryVee
August 7, 2024
Identity & self-belief
9
Bootstrapping
5
Copying others' money paths fails — know your own archetype first
Community college debt in 2024 rarely pays off the way people expect
Money turns toxic the moment it controls you instead of freeing you
Work-life balance
Podcast
Adam Grant on burnout: causes, recovery, and prevention strategies
How I Work
August 7, 2024
Work-life balance
9
Productivity & habits
8
Culture building
6
Burnout experts burn out too — knowledge doesn't make you immune
Afternoons for admin, mornings for deep work: the maker/manager split
Frequent short vacations restore more than rare long ones
Founder interviews
Podcast
Midi Health CEO on closing the menopause care gap
Masters of Scale
August 6, 2024
Founder interviews
10
Fundraising & VC
6
Physical health & longevity
5
A 2001 study wrongly halted hormone therapy for 20 years
10% of women quit their jobs because of untreated menopause symptoms
Women founders undersell scale — pitch the billion-dollar story first
Building effective business dashboards and scoreboards
Bill Gallagher
August 6, 2024
Processes & SOPs
8
Business operating systems
5
Cap your top-level dashboard at 10 numbers maximum
Red, green, yellow beats brand colors every time
Distributed ownership keeps dashboards alive — not automation
17 rules of success used by the top 0.01% of earners
Dan Martell
August 6, 2024
Motivation
9
Long-term planning
8
Goal setting
7
The results you want are hidden in the work you're avoiding.
Simple scales, complex fails — cut 60–70% and profit more.
Be a river: give ideas away free, charge for implementation.
SEO, freemium, and brand strategy for bootstrapped SaaS founders
Startups For the Rest of Us
August 6, 2024
Niche selection
9
SEO
8
Pricing strategy
6
Freemium delays revenue bootstrappers can't afford without a real growth loop
Brand is built by running a good business, not brand activities
Generic SEO content is dying; community presence and unique tools survive AI
How to monetise your expertise and build a legacy online business
Sunny Lenarduzzi
August 6, 2024
Business models
9
Email marketing
7
Identity & self-belief
5
Your income ceiling breaks when you stop selling time
AI handles information — human expertise creates real transformation
Own your audience with email; social platforms can vanish overnight
Long-term planning
YouTube
How to conduct a gap analysis to close organisational shortfalls
HR Party of One
August 6, 2024
Long-term planning
9
Processes & SOPs
7
Gaps found after deadlines are gaps you can no longer fix
Four gap types: market, strategic, profit, and skills
A four-step process turns findings into a concrete action plan
Prospecting & outreach
YouTube
English Teacher to Six-Figure Copywriter: Niche Passion, Client Stacking, Email Strategy
Matthew Volkwyn
August 5, 2024
Prospecting & outreach
8
Email marketing
8
Identity & self-belief
6
Cheap niche-aligned samples unlocked a seven-figure influencer client later.
Text-based founder emails outperform branded HTML; one email made $73K.
Over-discounting trains subscribers to wait, eroding brand loyalty over time.
Scaling a family remodeling business past eight figures
Cameron Herold
August 5, 2024
Delegation
8
Processes & SOPs
7
Identity & self-belief
6
Why surrounding yourself with entrepreneurs is a growth prerequisite
Delegate anything below your effective hourly rate divided by four
Systems belong to your managers — your job is to skill them up
Using your top strengths to lead through challenges
Coaching for Leaders
August 5, 2024
Management
9
Delegation
7
Your strengths feel easy — that's exactly why they're powerful
One team member's strength realignment freed the whole team's capacity
Delegation without a strengths lens silently blocks people's development
Automation & tools
YouTube
Automate social media reporting with Semrush Social Analytics
Semrush
August 5, 2024
Automation & tools
8
Social media
6
One dashboard unifies Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn metrics instantly.
Schedule recurring PDF reports delivered to your inbox in two clicks.
Colour-coded indicators make performance changes impossible to miss.
Productivity & habits
Podcast
Five core productivity strategies for knowledge workers
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
August 5, 2024
Productivity & habits
9
Deep work & focus
7
Why busyness and optimisation are both the wrong productivity goals
One to three active projects at a time eliminates overwhelming administrative overhead
A daily shutdown ritual is what makes cognitive recovery after work possible