The three signals Lubetzky looks for in a founder — and the order he learned them in.

Daniel Lubetzky on School of Hard Knocks (full episode) · School of Hard Knocks Podcast

Define the exact customer you can best serve so you stop wasting time on the rest

The New Strategic Selling · Robert B. Miller, Stephen E. Heiman, and Tad Tuleja

Three-element structure that separates real strategy from fluffy goals and slogans

Good Strategy Bad Strategy · Richard Rumelt

Identify how systems purposefully transfer prosperity from young to old

How the US Is Destroying Young Peoples Future · Scott Galloway

Is your system limited by its weakest element or elevated by its strongest?

My Little Hundred Million - Revisionist History S1E6 · Malcolm Gladwell

An iterative loop of goals, problems, diagnosis, design, and doing that drives personal evolution and achievement

Principles: Life and Work · Ray Dalio

Concentrate effort on pivotal moments where focused action creates outsized impact

Good Strategy/Bad Strategy:The difference and why it matters · Rumelt, Richard

Read your strategy's health from the shape of your value curve

Blue Ocean Strategy From Theory to Practice - W Chan Kim, Renée Mauborgne · W. Chan Kim, Renee Mauborgne

Recognize the recurring structural patterns behind chronic problems

The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook · Peter Senge

Exploit rivals' inability to change; combat your own organizational decay

Good Strategy/Bad Strategy: The difference and why it matters · Richard Rumelt

Every real strategy has three elements: diagnosis, guiding policy, action

Good Strategy/Bad Strategy: The difference and why it matters · Richard Rumelt