24 March 2025
This week's additions focus on mindset, marketing, and product, with new digests from Rob Walling, EOS Worldwide, and TK Kader. Highlights include 80% of SaaS exits go to private equity, not strategic buyers Eight seats each — how two founders used EOS to stop drowning in hats
Showing 53 digests for 24 March 2025.
Six types of business buyers and how to find them
Rob Walling
March 30, 2025
Exit strategy
10
Prospecting & outreach
6
80% of SaaS exits go to private equity, not strategic buyers
Your realistic buyer type determines your multiple before you negotiate
Four channels to find buyers, matched to your deal size
Business operating systems
YouTube
Self-implementing EOS as a two-person bootstrapped startup
EOS Worldwide
March 30, 2025
Business operating systems
10
Delegation
6
Eight seats each — how two founders used EOS to stop drowning in hats
One issues-list fix transformed their L10 productivity after a year of drift
How to get EOS purity checks without paying for an implementer
Prospecting & outreach
YouTube
Three-step go-to-market strategy to accelerate Q2 pipeline
TK Kader
March 30, 2025
Prospecting & outreach
9
Funnels
8
Closing techniques
7
You need $5 of pipeline for every $1 of revenue you want to close.
Most leads leave without a nurture process — 20% conversion is the benchmark.
Q2 lead generation directly determines your Q3 and Q4 results.
Productivity & habits
Podcast
George Raveling on winning the day and the I Have a Dream speech
The Daily Stoic
March 30, 2025
Productivity & habits
8
Motivation
7
Founder interviews
6
MLK's dream section was ad-libbed — Raveling asked for the manuscript on impulse
Raveling held the original speech secretly for over 50 years
Each morning: the only two choices are happy or very happy
Business operating systems
YouTube
How to build business frameworks that become your intellectual property
KeyPersonOfInfluence
March 30, 2025
Business operating systems
9
Processes & SOPs
6
Covey and Sinek built $400M+ businesses by documenting one framework each
One question unlocks your existing expertise into sellable intellectual property
Steps, diagram, and signature story combine into a framework clients pay for
Shape Up: A better way to plan, build, and ship products
Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth
March 30, 2025
Roadmapping
9
Processes & SOPs
7
Iteration & feedback loops
6
Six-week cycles eliminate planning meetings and reduce scope creep.
Pitches let teams present finished designs upfront for commitment.
Batch work into no-interruption periods to avoid context switching.
Customer discovery
YouTube
When to listen to customers and when to ignore them
Cameron Herold
March 29, 2025
Customer discovery
8
Customer experience
7
Objection handling
5
Absorbing customer complaints — even lies — keeps business energy positive
Individual feature requests complicate products without serving the full market
A leader's core job is to say no more often than yes
Productivity & habits
YouTube
20 productivity principles for founders who want to get more done
Dan Martell
March 29, 2025
Productivity & habits
10
Processes & SOPs
5
95% of your results come from just 5% of your work
Engineer pain and peer pressure — they outmotivate rewards every time
10X goals are easier than 2X because they force different activities
Resilience & grit
YouTube
How strategic rejection builds power and executive influence
Dr. Grace Lee
March 29, 2025
Resilience & grit
9
Identity & self-belief
8
Seeking nos — not yeses — removes emotional sting and reveals opportunity cost
Principles-level thinking outranks strategy; popularity-seeking kills influence
Transformation is directional change from within; playing it safe blocks power
Founder interviews
Podcast
How Texas Rangers third baseman Josh Jung applies stoic philosophy
The Daily Stoic
March 29, 2025
Founder interviews
10
Resilience & grit
8
Identity & self-belief
6
Losing doesn't wreck you — but you still have to hate it.
Comparison is the death of athletes: you'd have to trade the whole package.
Corrosive fuels like anger work short-term but fracture teams over time.
Prospecting & outreach
YouTube
12 client-getting strategies for freelance copywriters earning six figures
Matthew Volkwyn
March 28, 2025
Prospecting & outreach
9
Content marketing
6
Referrals beat cold outreach — ask right after delivering success.
Direct mail has almost zero competition and high conversion rates.
Targeting big clients gives better results, referrals, and easier copy.
Founder interviews
YouTube
Building LucidLink: lessons from a first-time founder at 57
EO
March 28, 2025
Founder interviews
10
Fundraising & VC
6
Resilience & grit
6
Ignored layoff advice during COVID — kept all 25 staff instead
33 VC rejections before landing the first believer at Baseline Ventures
Growth is painful; the habit of taking the harder path builds the muscle
Social media growth, B2B strategy, and self-esteem for creators
GaryVee
March 28, 2025
Social media
9
Identity & self-belief
7
Prospecting & outreach
6
Platform mismatch is a you problem, not an algorithm problem
A podcast beats cold calling for B2B lead generation every time
Insecurity — not tactics — is what stops most creators from growing
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Stoic emotions and presence: lessons from Marcus Aurelius and blackberry picking
The Daily Stoic
March 28, 2025
Resilience & grit
8
Relationships & family
7
Marcus Aurelius cried repeatedly — stoicism never meant suppressing emotion.
Feeling deeply and acting rightly are not in conflict for a stoic.
Five parenting principles hidden in a family blackberry-picking trip.
AI strategy & adoption
YouTube
How to cultivate AI use cases and avoid magical thinking in enterprise
Lean Startup Co.
March 28, 2025
AI strategy & adoption
9
Business operating systems
6
Customer discovery
5
Why 'magical thinking' about AI leads to broken promises and wasted investment
Smaller portfolio bets beat large transformation programmes for learning and ROI
A research-then-workshop method that builds stakeholder buy-in without telling people what to do