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.
The real cost of undocumented business processes
EOS Worldwide
September 5, 2024
Processes & SOPs
9
Business operating systems
6
Undocumented processes cost companies $50K–$1M+ per year
Leadership commitment must come before documentation can stick
Three steps: commit, document, enforce followed-by-all compliance
Compliance & regulation
YouTube
How to conduct an HR investigation: eight steps to compliance
HR Party of One
September 5, 2024
Compliance & regulation
10
You must act on harassment complaints immediately — no waiting.
Open-ended questions protect objectivity; leading questions undermine it.
Burlington Northern v. White: retaliation after a complaint can reach the Supreme Court.
Scaling food brands: lessons from MOD Pizza founders
How I Built This with Guy Raz
September 5, 2024
Niche selection
9
Supply chain
7
Branding
5
Saturate your home market before expansion — depth beats breadth.
Mission-driven brands must educate consumers before charging a premium.
Store-level EBITDA of 20%+ and 2-3x revenue-to-build ratio are key benchmarks.
Identity & self-belief
Podcast
Stoic philosophy across time: knowing yourself and finding balance
The Daily Stoic
September 5, 2024
Identity & self-belief
8
Work-life balance
7
Mental health & wellbeing
5
Stoicism was already ancient when Marcus Aurelius practiced it
Marcus and Epictetus reached the same wisdom from opposite ends of society
Work-life balance is perpetual recalibration, not a fixed achievement
How to Digitize Customer Orders in Four Steps
Layla at ProcessDriven
September 5, 2024
Processes & SOPs
9
Automation & tools
7
Separate structured fields from freestyle notes before building anything.
Digital orders unlock automation, sorting, and real-time collaboration paper cannot.
Go live on new orders only — never back-fill historical paperwork.
AI strategy & adoption
YouTube
How to integrate AI into enterprise workflows using lean methods
Lean Startup Co.
September 5, 2024
AI strategy & adoption
9
MVP & prototyping
7
Observe users with mockups and videos before writing any code
Productivity is the base KPI; time saved compounds across user base
Train-the-trainer enablement closes the gap from pilot to adoption
Testing zero-star Fiverr SEO gigs to rank on Google
Ahrefs
September 4, 2024
SEO
8
Outsourcing & delegation
7
Case studies
6
Zero-star Fiverr SEO gigs are no worse than five-star ones.
Skipping competitor analysis doomed the campaign from the start.
Rewriting content yourself outperformed every freelancer combined.
Proactive mental health as a corporate performance strategy
Bill Gallagher
September 4, 2024
Culture building
8
Work-life balance
6
Processes & SOPs
5
Reactive EAPs fail — daily proactive engagement cuts burnout and turnover.
Walgreens quadrupled adoption by embedding mental health into payroll clock-ins.
Leaders who hide their own struggles undermine the culture they want to build.
Founder interviews
YouTube
Social media, books, and accountability: Gary Vee's advice for CEOs
GaryVee
September 4, 2024
Founder interviews
10
Content marketing
8
Hiring & recruitment
7
Books and social media work together — neither alone is enough.
Radical accountability: every business problem is the leader's fault.
CEOs must master organic social to drive customer acquisition.
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Recognising atypical burnout and resetting stress with Dr Aditi Nerurkar
How I Work
September 4, 2024
Resilience & grit
9
Physical & cognitive performance
7
Always-on and unable to disconnect? That's modern burnout.
Your breath is the fastest switch from stress to calm.
Only two new habits at a time — your brain can't handle more.
The 4D weekly meeting framework for team execution
Bill Gallagher
September 3, 2024
Copywriting
9
Conversion rate optimisation
7
A four-step structure turns any weekly meeting into real decisions
Discover broadly, then discuss only one or two issues that matter
Every team level needs its own 4D meeting, linked vertically
Eight time rules for high-output CEOs without sacrificing personal life
Dan Martell
September 3, 2024
Time management
10
Processes & SOPs
6
Your calendar and bank account reveal your real priorities, not your words.
Batch, chunk, and sequence work to cut context-switching time by two-thirds.
Output = Time × Leverage — the four C's multiply what one person can produce.
Nine lessons from investing in 170+ B2B SaaS companies
Startups For the Rest of Us
September 3, 2024
Bootstrapping
8
Niche selection
7
Fundraising & VC
6
43% of exited or shut-down Tiny Seed founders are now millionaires
Vertical and orthogonal SaaS grows faster with less churn than horizontal
Ruined cap tables have blocked many fundable companies from raising
What seed and Series A investors actually look for
EO
September 3, 2024
Fundraising & VC
9
Business models
6
Seed is a team and a dream; Series A demands real traction
Early hiring mistakes are recoverable — repeated ones aren't
Superior products, not activism, drive climate adoption
How to build a $5M/yr online course business from scratch
Sunny Lenarduzzi
September 3, 2024
Business models
9
Funnels
8
Prospecting & outreach
7
Why information-dump courses fail — and what a transformational offer looks like.
Run 50+ research interviews before building anything; pre-sell to founding clients.
Proof beats ads: client results are the engine behind consistent $5M/yr revenue.