28 July 2025
This week's additions focus on mindset, leadership, and strategy, with new digests from Rob Walling, Ryan Deiss, and Superwall. Highlights include Past wins don't transfer — every product-market fit search starts over. Gut-feel leadership stops working around $2–4M revenue.
Showing 48 digests for 28 July 2025.
Founder interviews
YouTube
Six founder mistakes Rob Walling made across 20 years
Rob Walling
August 3, 2025
Founder interviews
10
Resilience & grit
8
Hiring & recruitment
6
Past wins don't transfer — every product-market fit search starts over.
Staying solopreneur too long becomes a hard ceiling on growth.
Unacknowledged anxiety makes success feel miserable even when it's real.
Three skills founders need to scale from $1M to $10M
Ryan Deiss
August 3, 2025
Management
9
Cash flow management
8
Processes & SOPs
7
Gut-feel leadership stops working around $2–4M revenue.
Delegate high-impact tasks first, not the easy low-value ones.
Five-account cash waterfall prevents profitable companies going broke.
How a two-person team built a $2M ARR AI job application app
Superwall
August 3, 2025
Paid ads
9
Growth hacking
8
Prospecting & outreach
6
Waitlists almost never convert — get people paying from day one
Wrong audience kills revenue even with 11 million views
80% copy proven viral formats; 20% experiment
Three B2B SaaS sales funnel strategies that actually work today
TK Kader
August 3, 2025
B2B sales
9
Funnels
8
Content marketing
5
Spray-and-pray outbound is dead — retargeting is what makes it work now
Weak messaging silently kills all three funnels, no matter how much activity you run
Inbound close rates should hit 40–50%; below that, money is being left on the table
How to prioritise when everything feels important
How I Work
August 3, 2025
Time management
8
Work-life balance
7
Identity & self-belief
5
Why even skilled leaders fail at prioritisation consistently
Paying customer first: the fastest way to cut through ambiguity
Unfocused work hours directly cost you time with family
Prospecting & outreach
YouTube
Why entrepreneurs struggle with sales and how to fix it
KeyPersonOfInfluence
August 3, 2025
Prospecting & outreach
9
Closing techniques
8
Entrepreneurship is demand generation — sales is the core skill
A weekly LAPS rhythm beats unpredictable feast-and-famine cycles
One repeatable conversation pattern closes more deals every time
Founder interviews
Podcast
Age, Wisdom, and Thriving in Tech: Lessons from Chip Conley
Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth
August 3, 2025
Founder interviews
10
Culture building
6
Resilience & grit
5
Older brains connect dots; younger brains execute fast—intergenerational teams compound when both work together.
Ageism in tech is real, but energy, curiosity, and visible impact matter more than wrinkles.
Midlife is not crisis but chrysalis—a metamorphosis where happiness climbs and wisdom crystallizes if you lean in.
Creativity is a choice: turning ideas into action
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
August 2, 2025
Motivation
9
Resilience & grit
7
Deep work & focus
6
Creativity isn't inspiration — it's a continuous series of decisions.
Constraints produce more original outcomes than total freedom.
53% of successful problem-solvers' time goes to reframing the problem.
Cash flow management
YouTube
Cutting waste by saying no far more often than yes
Cameron Herold
August 2, 2025
Cash flow management
8
Vision & mission
6
Chasing more revenue often just funds expenses you never needed.
Saying no is a learnable skill every manager must develop.
Zero-based budgeting and Pareto analysis expose hidden waste fast.
MVP & prototyping
YouTube
How Abhishek Built an $11K/Month SaaS by Copying a Big Competitor
Starter Story
August 2, 2025
MVP & prototyping
9
Niche selection
8
Growth hacking
7
Copy a validated market; find gaps incumbents leave behind.
UForm hit $11K MRR with a two-week MVP and no original idea.
Search Reddit and Twitter for complaints before writing any code.
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
Rewiring your mindset from hard worker to strategic CEO
Dr. Grace Lee
August 2, 2025
Identity & self-belief
9
Productivity & habits
7
Delegation
6
Busyness and control-hoarding are symptoms of a scarcity mindset
Strategic CEOs create new opportunities rather than competing for existing ones
Identity must change before goals can be sustainably achieved
Founder interviews
Podcast
Winning is a muscle: Candace Parker on greatness, passion, and identity
The Daily Stoic
August 2, 2025
Founder interviews
10
Resilience & grit
7
Identity & self-belief
6
You don't choose your calling — only how fully you pursue it
Winning is a muscle; not building it early cost Parker championships
The cheat code: getting paid for what you'd do for free anyway
Prospecting & outreach
YouTube
Using ChatGPT to make $100 cold-calling as a complete stranger
Dan Martell
August 1, 2025
Prospecting & outreach
9
AI tools & automation
7
MVP & prototyping
5
Text outreach beats cold calls — prospects stall on the phone every time
A working demo closes deals faster than any GPT-written sales script
AI listing video tools all fail end-to-end — a wide-open market gap
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Nine books that will make you healthier, wealthier, and wiser
The Daily Stoic
August 1, 2025
Resilience & grit
9
Identity & self-belief
8
Motivation
7
People show you who they are — stop expecting to be the exception.
The 48 Laws of Power matters most to those most repulsed by it.
Stoic philosophy tested under torture: Stockdale's seven years in Hanoi.
How Known blends data science and creativity to reinvent marketing
Masters of Scale
July 31, 2025
Case studies
9
Business models
7
Culture building
5
Reuniting fragmented marketing silos is itself a competitive advantage.
A $30M client collapse forced a smarter, faster business model.
Giving clients direct access to your proprietary tools builds deeper trust.