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Lessons from 1,000+ YC startups: Pivoting, resilience, avoiding tar pit ideas, more | Dalton Caldwell (Y Combinator, Managing Director)

Lenny Rachitsky

Brought to you by: • Eppo —Run reliable, impactful experiments • Vanta —Automate compliance. During his time at YC, he’s advised more than 35 YC unicorns, including DoorDash, Amplitude, Webflow, and Retool, and has worked across 21 different YC batches.

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429: Innovation practices of the best companies – with Sally Kay

Product Innovation Educators

The award started in 1988, and in 2004 the OCI committee was asked to write a chapter for the PDMA Handbook of New Product Development about the OCI award. From 1988-2004, winners were early adopters of Stage-Gate, cross-functional teams, and voice-of-the-customer. Innovation strategy is critical. They had tremendous success.

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6 Things I Learned About PLG and Customer Success

Gainsight

Have you ever heard the one about the client that “was a little different than your other customers?” In the Customer Success world, this scenario has become a bit of a joke. So when a Customer Success leader, as one of OUR clients, tells us about how different they are, it’s reasonable to be a bit skeptical.