2 September 2024
This week's additions focus on mindset, strategy, and marketing, with new digests from Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth, EOS Worldwide, and TK Kader. Highlights include Carving out 2M users let LinkedIn rebuild the feed without breaking everything. Building a $10M business already makes you a hero.
Showing 36 digests for 2 September 2024.
AI strategy & adoption
Podcast
How LinkedIn transformed its feed into a destination product
Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth
September 8, 2024
AI strategy & adoption
9
Product-market fit
7
Vision & mission
6
Carving out 2M users let LinkedIn rebuild the feed without breaking everything.
AI is the matchmaker; most product leaders hand away the steering paddles.
Clarity of execution matters more than being right — confusion kills organisations.
Long-term planning
YouTube
Should you scale your business beyond hero status?
EOS Worldwide
September 8, 2024
Long-term planning
8
Identity & self-belief
5
Building a $10M business already makes you a hero.
Act three — the biggest leap — is optional, not inevitable.
The real question: do you want to risk it all again?
AI tools & automation
YouTube
Six micro-SaaS ideas using AI for niche software products
TK Kader
September 8, 2024
AI tools & automation
9
MVP & prototyping
7
Niche selection
6
One ICP + one feature + 10X differentiation is the only formula that matters
AI layered onto any niche tool is the fastest path to 10X differentiation today
Validate before building — most founders waste months on products nobody wants
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Always try to do it the hard way
The Daily Stoic
September 8, 2024
Resilience & grit
9
Productivity & habits
6
Growth comes from deliberately choosing the harder path over comfort.
Small daily choices—walking farther, hard conversations—compound into capability.
Deep preparation and modeling challenge teach resilience to yourself and others.
Enterprise is now the dominant factor of production in the digital economy
KeyPersonOfInfluence
September 8, 2024
Niche selection
9
Identity & self-belief
7
Digital age shifts economic power from capital and labor to enterprise.
30-person teams with under $1M can build global, AI-driven businesses.
Job security is obsolete; entrepreneurial security is the replacement.
How CEOs use a vivid vision to align teams and attract talent
Cameron Herold
September 7, 2024
Vision & mission
10
Culture building
6
Business operating systems
5
A 4–5 page future description replaces the useless mission statement
Sharing the vision causes the wrong people to self-select out fast
Banks and customers bet on companies whose futures they can clearly see
Five steps to make executive communication effortless
Dr. Grace Lee
September 7, 2024
Communication
9
Identity & self-belief
7
You already have the content — the skill is getting it out
Wrong beliefs about yourself block progress more than lack of knowledge
Communicating at all four learning levels separates leaders from presenters
Why blockchains are the antidote to internet consolidation
EO
September 7, 2024
Business models
9
AI strategy & adoption
6
Five companies now capture 95%+ of internet traffic and revenue.
Blockchains give users ownership of followers, data, and assets.
AI will destroy creator business models without a new ownership layer.
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
13 business rules that build lasting wealth
Dan Martell
September 6, 2024
Identity & self-belief
8
Long-term planning
7
Delegation
6
Charging from day one is the only real proof of a business
Incompetence is a superpower — it forces your team to own things
Wealth is creation mindset; staying broke is protection mindset
Resilience & grit
YouTube
Mindset habits that sustain long-term entrepreneurial success
Silicon Valley Girl
September 6, 2024
Resilience & grit
9
Motivation
8
Delegation
5
Fall in love with the problem, not the shiny outcome.
Networking time should grow as your seniority grows.
One meeting that felt pointless changed the startup's trajectory.
Li Lu's investing philosophy: study Buffett and Munger, then do it
Founders
September 6, 2024
Valuation
9
Resilience & grit
8
Competitive analysis
6
Only ~5% of investors have the temperament to truly practise value investing
Extreme preparation unlocks conviction to bet a shitload on rare great opportunities
Charlie Munger: Munger family money given to an outside manager exactly once in 95 years
How Y Combinator was built: origin stories and founding DNA
Y Combinator
September 6, 2024
Origin stories
10
Fundraising & VC
6
Why YC's batch model and weekly dinners were the product, not perks.
Standardised legal docs and small checks made founding accessible in 2005.
Yuri Milner's surprise $150K-for-everyone deal changed startup confidence overnight.
Product-market fit
Podcast
How to find product-market fit and build a growth engine with Sean Ellis
Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth
September 5, 2024
Product-market fit
9
Growth hacking
8
Customer discovery
7
Why 40% 'very disappointed' is a signal to understand, not just celebrate
Fix activation before scaling acquisition — LogMeIn grew 100x by doing this
Referral programs accelerate existing word-of-mouth; they cannot create it
Founder interviews
Podcast
Alli Webb on building Drybar, selling at the right time, and starting again
Masters of Scale
September 5, 2024
Founder interviews
10
Business models
6
Selling the product line weeks before COVID saved the business
Doing one thing better than anyone beats expanding into everything
Running franchise and company-owned stores in parallel is harder than it looks
How to build a topic cluster strategy for SEO authority
Semrush
September 5, 2024
SEO
9
AI tools & automation
6
Pillar pages and interlinked articles build topical authority search engines reward
Semrush's tool auto-generates keyword clusters from just five seed keywords
Personal keyword difficulty scores tailor clusters to your domain's ranking ability