26 August 2024
This week's additions focus on strategy, leadership, and founder stories, with new digests from Rob Walling, Ryan Deiss, and Starter Story. Highlights include Growth is a multiplier: founder quality times market quality equals outcome. The more indispensable you are, the less valuable your business is
Showing 32 digests for 26 August 2024.
AI tools & automation
YouTube
How to build custom GPTs that save time on repetitive formatting tasks
Layla at ProcessDriven
August 29, 2024
AI tools & automation
9
Automation & tools
6
Train a bot on your own past emails, not a generic style guide.
Always require the bot to itemize every change it makes.
One 20-minute setup replaced a weekly 20-minute task indefinitely.
Product-market fit
YouTube
How to measure and improve cohort retention for your startup
Y Combinator
August 29, 2024
Product-market fit
9
Iteration & feedback loops
7
Data & analytics
5
Flat retention curves signal product-market fit — the absolute number barely matters.
Widening your time period or picking a shallow action quietly lies to you.
Slicing cohorts by segment reveals which users your product actually works for.
AI tools & automation
YouTube
Using AI tools practically in branding and small business work
Bill Gallagher
August 28, 2024
AI tools & automation
9
Branding
7
AI is strongest compressing content, weakest generating it from scratch
Generative fill and image tools replace work that was never worth outsourcing
Humans still catch AI errors — judgment and creativity remain irreplaceable
How to track content campaigns using UTM parameters for free
Semrush
August 28, 2024
UTMs reveal exactly which link or channel drove each conversion
Inconsistent capitalisation silently splits your data into duplicate sources
Use campaign term to isolate a single post's performance in GA4
Story Protocol: building the programmable IP layer for the AI age
EO
August 28, 2024
Business models
9
AI strategy & adoption
7
Pricing strategy
6
AI destroys creator revenue models — blockchain restores them
IP encoded as Lego bricks: composable, licensable, royalty-paying
Video games embraced remixing and grew 7x; music didn't and stagnated
How Trav's Outfitter used EOS to scale from chaos to repeatable growth
EOS Worldwide
August 28, 2024
Case studies
9
Business operating systems
8
Rapid growth without structure forces founders to make every decision themselves
Visionaries must genuinely let go — or EOS will not work
Half-implemented EOS consistently fails to deliver the promised results
How Campus is fixing community college with online live instruction
Masters of Scale
August 27, 2024
Business models
9
Origin stories
7
Fundraising & VC
6
68% of community college students drop out — Campus fixes that
Better graduation rates raise revenue, making student support self-funding
Sam Altman closed a deal in four days; Shaq has a doctorate
How to run effective quarterly planning sessions
Bill Gallagher
August 27, 2024
Processes & SOPs
8
Long-term planning
6
Always hold planning sessions offsite — location shifts thinking
Review wins and misses, then focus on two or three key issues
A one-page vision summary connects strategy to each department
How Iran Galperin bootstrapped Gymdesk to a $32.5M exit
Startups For the Rest of Us
August 27, 2024
Case studies
9
SEO
7
Bootstrapping
6
Eight years of focus beats launching ten things and moving on
Self-serve UX and SEO beat incumbents' heavy sales playbook
The acquisition process causes insomnia — even with a great outcome ahead
How to build a knowledge-based online business to $100k in six months
Sunny Lenarduzzi
August 27, 2024
Business models
9
Prospecting & outreach
8
Funnels
6
One offer beats a value ladder — focus beats horizontal scaling every time
Sell to people in pain, not beginners; prescription programs convert far higher
Direct conversations with 50 people generated $90k in three weeks with no audience
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
Five traits that drive success in business and life
GaryVee
August 27, 2024
Identity & self-belief
9
Resilience & grit
7
Motivation
6
Fear — not circumstance — is the reason most people stay professionally stuck.
Courage's only real regret is the jump you never took.
Free social media distribution is a closing window; not using it will sting.
Video ad scriptwriting as a high-value, untapped copywriting skill
Matthew Volkwyn
August 26, 2024
Copywriting
9
Prospecting & outreach
7
Business models
6
Bolt video ad scripts onto email retainers to double income with existing clients
Skilled video ad copywriters are scarce — demand is growing fast
Outcome independence closes more deals than any sales script
Hiring & recruitment
YouTube
How to get the most value out of a COO
Cameron Herold
August 26, 2024
Hiring & recruitment
8
Delegation
8
Outsourcing & delegation
5
Break COO salary into weekly cost — then ask what they generate
A-players won't tolerate test projects; fix your interviewing instead
COO profile that built to $100M rarely fits the $100M–$600M climb
How team collaboration shapes a culture of growth mindset
Coaching for Leaders
August 26, 2024
Culture building
9
Management
7
Growth mindset is a continuum shaped by environment, not a fixed trait
Internal competition — even well-intentioned — triggers fixed mindset in teams
Cultures of growth outperform on innovation, revenue, and resilience
Deep work & focus
Podcast
The surprising math of doing less: why fewer projects produce more value
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
August 26, 2024
Deep work & focus
9
Productivity & habits
8
Identity & self-belief
6
Value production peaks early — adding obligations actively reduces output
Nonlinear returns mean deep focus on one thing beats splitting time across many
Discipline is an identity built through keystone habits, not willpower alone