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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

Simplify security • Coda —The all-in-one collaborative workspace — Dalton Caldwell is Managing Director and Group Partner at Y Combinator. If your venture struggles and innovative strategies are exhausted, consider pivoting. But if there are still untapped ideas, persevere and try them first.

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

Product Innovation Educators

Lessons for product managers from PDMA’s Outstanding Corporate Innovators Award Every year the Product Management and Development Association (PDMA) recognizes an organization with the Outstanding Corporate Innovators Award (OCI). Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers [3:04] Why was the OCI award created?

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6 Things I Learned About PLG and Customer Success

Gainsight

Yet, one cohort of CS leaders exists that I’ve found to truly be special snowflakes: Customer Success teams in companies that employ Product-led Growth strategies. Because the product is so technical, the CS team includes the traditional CSM role as well as Technical Account Managers and Solutions Architects.