28 October 2024
This week's additions focus on strategy, leadership, and mindset, with new digests from Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth, Ryan Deiss, and EO. Highlights include Distribution beats features — most founders ignore go-to-market strategy fatally. Why you'll earn less money at $6M than at $2M
Showing 38 digests for 28 October 2024.
Business operating systems
YouTube
How a visionary-integrator duo at Haven Creative built trust and scaled together
EOS Worldwide
October 31, 2024
Business operating systems
9
Management
7
Culture building
6
Why naming half-baked ideas 'cake batter' stopped team overwhelm
125% growth in one year after finally finding the right integrator
Hard times — not wins — are what actually build VI trust
From bankruptcy to EOS implementer: Sean Rosensteel's entrepreneurial journey
EOS Worldwide
October 31, 2024
Case studies
10
Business operating systems
7
Bankruptcy at 25 became the catalyst for three successful acquisitions in seven years
The EOS life is a byproduct of discipline — not something you can aim for directly
Visionary-integrator tension is the hardest unlock, but the highest-leverage one
Uncovering hidden workplace issues before they become HR crises
HR Party of One
October 31, 2024
Management
9
Processes & SOPs
5
Silent burnout and quiet quitting build undetected until it's too late.
Stay interviews — kept informal — can retain high performers before they leave.
A genuine open-door culture prevents issues from festering in the first place.
Founder advice on investors, scaling, and knowing when to let go
How I Built This with Guy Raz
October 31, 2024
Fundraising & VC
9
Delegation
8
Long-term planning
7
Why picking the wrong early investor can sink your business
Niche brands must plan expansion before they need it
Delegating roles you can do is how founders unlock growth
Process mapping: the one method every small business needs
Layla at ProcessDriven
October 31, 2024
Processes & SOPs
10
Automation & tools
5
Your business runs on invisible assembly lines — map them to fix them
Four symbols are all you need to diagram any workflow
Team mapping sessions expose errors and waste you didn't know existed
Four questions every PM leader should ask themselves sooner
Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth
October 31, 2024
Management
8
Roadmapping
6
Identity & self-belief
5
Real strategy collapses months of planning into days and prevents feature debt.
Build taste by shedding social proof and authority bias, not pixel-perfect intuition.
Work within your core superpower or suffer willpower drain and daily frustration.
How Astranis built a satellite company without billionaire backing
Y Combinator
October 31, 2024
Case studies
9
MVP & prototyping
8
Fundraising & VC
7
A working satellite prototype built in a San Francisco apartment in three months.
Demo day proof-of-concept unlocked one of YC's largest seed rounds at the time.
Domain expertise plus scrappy execution beats waiting for billionaire-scale capital.
How curiosity drives leadership, operations, and culture
Bill Gallagher
October 30, 2024
Culture building
9
Processes & SOPs
6
Management
5
Ego, fear, and habit are the real enemies of organisational growth.
Psychological safety — not talent — determines whether teams innovate.
Growth goals and growth mindset are not the same thing.
How Luca Netz built Pudgy Penguins into a mass-market IP brand
Brett Malinowski
October 30, 2024
Case studies
10
Growth hacking
8
Business models
7
3–4 billion monthly impressions from Giphy at $15K/month spend
Viral challenges seeded through meme pages for ~$20K — not ads
A capped NFT community of 1,000 loyalists beats 2M passive followers
Founder interviews
YouTube
How I built Starter Story in 365 days while working full-time
Starter Story
October 30, 2024
Founder interviews
10
Identity & self-belief
7
Resilience & grit
6
Letting go of control unlocks the idea only you can build
Changing one environment — a Starbucks — broke years of inaction
From zero to $3,500/month in a year, without quitting the day job
Leading through crisis: lessons from Gaza, Israel, and the builders' movement
Masters of Scale
October 29, 2024
Communication
9
Resilience & grit
7
Management
6
Why humanitarian neutrality is a strategic asset, not a moral compromise
Social media algorithms are making every one of us less open-minded
Determination, not optimism, is what sustains leaders through endless crisis
Founder interviews
YouTube
Patrick Bet-David: From Iranian Refugee to Building a Billion-Dollar Mission
Dan Martell
October 29, 2024
Founder interviews
10
Management
6
Resilience & grit
6
Refugee camp chaos became the psychological armour for handling business volatility.
Anger is a nuclear button — collateral damage almost never justifies pressing it.
The billion-dollar target is a byproduct of cause, not a personal lifestyle goal.
MicroConf Europe 2024: Key takeaways from Dubrovnik
Startups For the Rest of Us
October 29, 2024
Case studies
9
Pivoting
7
Pricing strategy
7
80–90% of companies that plateau never break through — know the cause first.
Treating your company as a product leads to costly management mistakes.
Tally reached $1.8M ARR with two founders by owning the Notion community.
Resilience & grit
Podcast
How Marcus Aurelius' Meditations transformed a life and practice
The Daily Stoic
October 29, 2024
Resilience & grit
9
Identity & self-belief
6
Calm is something you create inside chaos, not despite it.
Nothing can stop you from practicing courage, discipline, justice, wisdom.
Writing privately for yourself — not to impress — is why Meditations endures.
How Meta connected half of humanity and keeps winning
Acquired
October 28, 2024
Origin stories
10
Competitive analysis
7
Meta reaches more humans than any empire in history — and it was never an accident
Turning down $1B from Yahoo and $24B from Microsoft paid off within two years
Mobile nearly killed Facebook; necessity forced the best ad unit in company history