Noah Kagan Marketing & Business Blog

Hola, I am the Chief Sumo at Sumo.com and AppSumo.com, where we help entrepreneurs kick more ass. Before that I was a cubicle monkey at Intel, #30 at Facebook and #4 at Mint. These are my stories on marketing, starting a business, personal improvement and productivity tips.

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7 Life Thoughts

Recently, I went to an epic leadership retreat in Israel. I met a TON of neat people, and had some time to sit down and really think… Am I happy with what I’m doing? What am I not doing well? What do I want to change? I want to share the the life thoughts I...

16 Leadership Activities from Israel

2 years ago, I was at a dinner party when someone told me about a free business trip to Israel. Free?! Your boy couldn’t wait to sign up. 🙂 The business trip was called the Schusterman REALITY Tech trip. It’s a one-week trip to Israel with 50 other people who applied, and I got accepted...

A Conversation with One of America’s Best Chefs — Tyson Cole

Listen on Apple Podcasts - Listen on Overcast - Download mp3 BONUS: Another story from a world-class restaurant How do you succeed in one of the most competitive industries in the world? The restaurant industry is the perfect example: Tons of competition Margins are super low Failure rate is very high Tyson Cole has defied...

5 Tips to Get 195,000 YouTube Views per Month

A few years back, my friend Brian Dean from Backlinko created his YouTube channel. He assumed he could just post in-depth videos and the results would magically happen... But the results never came. Despite hours of hard work, Brian’s video views and subscribers barely budged. So Brian started to experiment: Trying different styles of titles Testing different...