Million Dollar Weekend: Illustrated Book Summary

How to build your million dollar business this weekend

Million Dollar Weekend:

Noah Kagan is the founder of AppSumo and was employee #30 at Facebook.

He is a New York Times bestselling author and is known for making business easy through his YouTube channel and podcast. This book contains his biggest lessons.

My summary breaks down the key ideas from the book and from Noah’s most impactful articles. If you’re looking for a step-by-step playbook, I’d recommend reading the book cover to cover.

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Contents:

1. Bias Towards Action

2. Paradox of Failure

3. Scattergun Approach

4. Explore & Exploit

5. 1-Minute Business Plan

6. Breakthrough Principle

7. Quality-Driven Demand

8. Feedback Loops

9. Freedom Number

10. Revenue Dials

11. North Star Metric

12. The Fun Factor

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Bias Towards Action:

A good idea made real is better than a great idea that only exists in the mind.

Don’t dwell on things for too long. Planning is rarely the rate-limiting step.

Remember: It is easier to steer a moving ship than to start a stationary one.

Think now, not how.

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Paradox of Failure:

Get used to failure — in fact, seek it out.

Very few (if any) people will succeed without ever having failed.

Before eventually finding success in business, Noah was fired from Facebook and had 20+ startup failures.

“The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried“

— Stephen McCranie

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