The Best Articles in Business
The most useful articles and videos in Business from around the web, curated by thought leaders and our community.
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Top 5 Business Articles
At a glance: these are the articles that have been most read, shared, and saved in Business by Refind users in 2024 so far.
Videos
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How To Find MILLION DOLLAR Business Ideas That WORK
I'm joined by Noah Kagan, CEO of AppSumo. We talk about how to build products people love, how he lost $1M for not listening to customers, how to find the be...
I Make $1.3M/Year With One Skill
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How Working Hours May Be a Recession Indicator
Employees are actually working fewer hours as hiring booms, which could be a sign of incoming layoffs—and a possible recession. The current average number of...
Is anything ever really free? FreeWater is challenging our economic model
27 million likes on TikTok. A $0.00 product. How does the ‘FreeWater’ company work?Subscribe to Freethink on YouTube ► https://freeth.ink/youtube-subscribe U...
Do Technical Founders Need Business Co-Founders?
Whether or not you need a co-founder is always a hotly debated topic — but going one level deeper, founders often wonder what kind of co-founder they need. ...
What is ...?
New to Business? These articles make an excellent introduction.
What is behind the big tech companies' job cuts?
Thousands of redundancies have been announced by some of the largest firms in the industry.
What is stopping you from starting your new idea or business? (Continued)
Part 2 of 2 on the common hurdles new founders face (a lack of time, money, confidence and focus).
How to ...?
How to Create Business Momentum
Whether you are starting a business or been at it for a while, one key to success is for your business to find momentum.
How to lose a monopoly: Microsoft, IBM and anti-trust
A big rich company, a company that dominates the market for its product, and a company that dominates the broader tech industry are three quite different things. Market cap isn’t power. IBM ruled…
How to Help a Business Thrive During an Economic Recession
It's possible to see an economic downturn (or recession) as an economic opportunity, rather than a detriment. And with the right strategies, you can help your business thrive under these conditions.
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5 Real Growth Hacking Strategies for SaaS Companies
SaaS growth hacking is alive and well. Learn these 5 low-cost tactics you can use to hack growth and drive traffic to your brand and business.
GOAT’s Path to Product-Market Fit — How a Fake Sneaker Sparked a $4B Idea
GOAT co-founder and CEO Eddy Lu sits down with First Round Partner Todd Jackson to tell the story of how a decade of middling entrepreneurial ideas finally culminated in the $4B idea for a sneaker…
Vercel’s Path to Product-Market Fit — From Open-Source Project to Billion-Dollar Business
Guillermo Rauch, raised in Buenos Aires and fascinated by computers since age 7, taught himself to code and moved to San Francisco at 18. His company, Vercel — the frontend cloud service behind open…
Great management and leadership books for the technical track
Monday, February 12, 2024In tech, we're fortunate to have separate management and technical tracks, though it's still underdeveloped. However, the path you take isn't very clear, it's not broadly…
The Importance (and Shortcomings) of a Data-Driven Approach in Venture Capital
Introduction We live in a world where the quantity and quality of data continue to compound at an exponential rate. Within asset management, data-driven or quant strategies are certainly not new yet…
Short Articles
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12 Mark Cuban mantras for success
Excerpted from How to Win at the Sport of Business: If I Can Do It, You Can Do It: 10th Anniversary Edition by Mark Cuban, available now wherever books are sold. Copyright © 2023 Mark Cuban. Printed…
The best way to unlock potential? Don’t focus on raw talent
By all accounts, Philipp Meyer is a talented writer. He has won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His novels have been compared to the pantheon of Faulkner,…
«Meyer’s story is a reminder that our cultural obsession with raw talent is misguided. To truly unlock potential — either your own or that of the people you lead and teach — you must refine your shortcomings, too.»
248. The 5 Dangers of Movement Without Progress
The difference between success and failure is making sure your movement leads to progress. You'd be surprised how often it doesn't.
«The fact that you are avoiding the most important thing that you need to do is the best example of you doing a lot of movement with no progress.»
Framestorming: How A Simple Focus Shift Saved T-Mobile (And How To Do The Same):
How T-Mobile beat giants in their own game, how Zara changed fashion, and how to use Framestorming to find the right focus for your brand:
What I Wish Someone Had Told Me
Optimism, obsession, self-belief, raw horsepower and personal connections are how things get started. Cohesive teams, the right combination of calmness and urgency, and unreasonable commitment are...
Long Articles
These are some of the most-read long-form articles in Business.
How China took over the world’s online shopping carts
Chinese e-commerce platforms like Shein, Temu, and TikTok Shop are going global with big ambitions.
How Lego builds a new Lego set
Exclusive: the $80 Lego Ideas Polaroid OneStep — and how it was made.
What makes a strategy great
Most so-called "strategies" are vague, wishful thinking, written once and never seen again. Don't do that. These are the characteristics of great strategy.
«Average players want to be left alone. Good players want to be coached. Great players want the coach to tell them the truth.»
A surprisingly radical proposal: Make people happier — not just wealthier and healthier
We finally have good data on what makes people happy. Why are we afraid to use it?
The three kinds of leverage that anchor effective strategies
Leveraging strengths -- not "fixing weaknesses" -- is how to win. Better when differentiated. Best when durable. Here's how to create leverage.
Podcasts
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Nintendo's Origins
You may think you know the Nintendo story: a plumber named Mario, a princess named Zelda… and didn’t they buy the Seattle Mariners at some point? We thought we knew it too. And then we started…
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