9 September 2024
This week's additions focus on mindset, leadership, and strategy, with new digests from Rob Walling, Ryan Deiss, and Silicon Valley Girl. Highlights include Freemium is a marketing strategy — your price is literally zero Your default founder type is probably the wrong one right now
Showing 33 digests for 9 September 2024.
Prospecting & outreach
YouTube
How to write cold emails that convert customers
Y Combinator
September 12, 2024
Prospecting & outreach
10
Copywriting
6
Landing one customer typically requires sending 800 emails.
Targeting beats copy — wrong audience makes great emails worthless.
Seven principles separate top-5% emails from instant deletes.
Resilience & grit
YouTube
Going slow to go fast: search and rescue lessons for founders
Bill Gallagher
September 11, 2024
Resilience & grit
8
Deep work & focus
6
Culture building
5
Rushing to a rescue victim 30 seconds faster can create two casualties.
Leaning into fear — not away from it — is where survival happens.
A failed startup sale to AT&T became a 15-year growth anchor.
Long-term planning
Podcast
Risk, Intuition, and the Edge Between Prudence and Boldness
The Daily Stoic
September 11, 2024
Long-term planning
8
Resilience & grit
6
Winner's tilt after success is as dangerous as tilt after losses.
Intuition is powerful — but only when you have genuine experience to draw on.
Being right about one contrarian bet can corrupt your judgment permanently.
Long-term planning
Podcast
Why the decisions we make today will shape humanity for centuries
Masters of Scale
September 10, 2024
Long-term planning
9
Resilience & grit
6
Decision-making
5
Your brain treats your future self like a stranger.
AI is being built for ads, not planetary flourishing.
Three practices that make long-term thinking a daily habit.
Start every meeting with good news to shift team energy
Bill Gallagher
September 10, 2024
Meetings that skip wins make teams feel like they're always losing.
Celebrate before problem-solving — even tiny wins count.
Struggling to celebrate is a personal pattern worth fixing.
Leadership principles from 53 years of practice with John Maxwell
Dan Martell
September 10, 2024
Management
9
Productivity & habits
7
Founder interviews
6
Consistency only compounds when paired with daily intentional improvement.
Pick five lanes at 28, spend 60 years going deeper — not wider.
Real-time feedback beats quarterly reviews: solve problems the moment you see them.
Nine online business ideas anyone can start with minimal capital
Silicon Valley Girl
September 10, 2024
Business models
9
Bootstrapping
6
Influencer & partnerships
6
Earn $150–$300 per video as a brand creator — no audience needed.
Creator economy roles like sales manager pay 10–20% commission.
Print on demand and paid communities generate near-passive recurring income.
MVP & prototyping
Podcast
SaaS Launchpad: Rob Walling's course for early-stage SaaS founders
Startups For the Rest of Us
September 10, 2024
MVP & prototyping
9
Copywriting
6
Market research
6
Paying for a course creates skin in the game — free content doesn't.
The 2-2-20-200 framework gives early founders a repeatable validation process.
Six months with no traction is Rob's signal to seriously consider quitting.
How Nick Sleep and Qais Zaharia built Nomad Investment Partnership
Founders
September 10, 2024
Case studies
10
Business models
8
Unit economics
6
Why ignoring all market noise was core to a 10x fund return
One business model — scale economies shared — explains Costco, Amazon, Walmart
Concentrated bets held for decades beat diversified trading every time
Content marketing
YouTube
How to monetise YouTube from day one by selling your expertise
Sunny Lenarduzzi
September 10, 2024
Content marketing
9
Funnels
8
Pricing strategy
5
Under 1,000 subscribers can generate $10K/month with the right funnel.
Sell a transformation-based online course — AdSense pays pennies per view.
Your email list, not the algorithm, is your most durable business asset.
Why creative is the only variable that matters in modern marketing
GaryVee
September 10, 2024
Growth hacking
9
Branding
7
Management
6
Platform AI now measures creative quality better than any agency pre-test.
Single organic social videos have sold out products across entire retail chains.
Bonus structures — not knowledge gaps — keep brands spending the wrong way.
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Stoicism is not dark: Marcus Aurelius on duty, joy, and action
The Daily Stoic
September 10, 2024
Resilience & grit
8
Motivation
8
Stoicism is a joyful, empowering philosophy — not cold or depressing.
Happiness ensues from serving others, not from pursuing pleasure.
Stop booing the situation; do the thing you actually control.
Founder interviews
YouTube
From Copywriter to Six-Figure Agency Owner in One Year
Matthew Volkwyn
September 9, 2024
Founder interviews
10
Copywriting
7
Resilience & grit
6
Jasmine built a multi-six-figure agency after four years of copywriting, agency work, and a marketing director role with seven-figure fitness coach Brian Mark.
Ideal clients have 200K+ followers, multiple six-figure revenue, and quality existing content — high standards signal they already value great copy.
Over-communication via Slack and weekly reports eliminates meeting overload; proactive systems beat passive compliance every time.
How great COOs grow people, break silos, and lead globally
Cameron Herold
September 9, 2024
Delegation
9
Management
8
Identity & self-belief
5
The COO's job is growing people, not doing the work
Flipping the org chart puts leaders in a support role
Hiring globally and leveraging AI now separate scalable companies
Cash flow management
YouTube
How to set expense ratios and guarantee profit in your business
Ryan Deiss
September 9, 2024
Cash flow management
9
Business operating systems
7
Profit must be decided before expenses, not calculated after
A $10M business can drop nothing to the bottom line without this
Five-step ratio system to find and reallocate hidden cash in your business