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Announcing our latest book – The Growth Handbook

Intercom, Inc.

We’ve just launched our latest book, The Growth Handbook. Whether you’re at an early stage startup contemplating life after the TechCrunch bump, or a more mature business with many millions in ARR, your company’s survival depends on finding a sustainable answer. That’s what The Growth Handbook is all about.

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Startup CTO or Developer

TechEmpower - Product Management

What does it mean to be a CTO for a startup? Should a startup CTO spend their time programming? Here’s a graphic from Socal CTO that illustrates the roles as they change over time: In its earliest days, a startup’s top need is often to produce a product. What does the role demand? Exploring new technologies? It might be.

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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

They possess an unwavering conviction in their startup’s potential, even in the face of daunting obstacles. Understanding the distinction between a genuinely innovative startup idea and one that merely garners initial enthusiasm can save founders time, resources, and energy in the long run, steering them toward more promising ventures.

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470: Strategies for enhanced product innovation in organizations – with Andy Binns

Product Innovation Educators

Our first book was Corporate Explorer: How Corporations Beat Startups at Innovation. This sounds outrageous, but although it is challenging for corporations to innovate and get into a market ahead of a startup, it does happen far more often than we realize. Nobody listened to him, so he left and went to a startup.

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5 strategies to drive your next wave of growth

Intercom, Inc.

Over the years, I’ve learned a lot through both successes and failures, and these are my top 5 strategies in scaling SaaS businesses from $1M to $500M in revenue: Expand your market. Find product market fit again and again. Then apply Lean Startup Principles to hiring by putting people in the role. Which could you solve well?

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Billion dollar failures, and billion dollar success | Tom Conrad (Quibi, Pandora, Pets.com, Snap, Zero)

Lenny Rachitsky

Davis on Peacock: [link] • Watchmen on HBO: [link] • Lost on Hulu: [link] • Eartune replacement tips: [link] • Charles Eames’s quote: [link] • Compuserve: [link] • Steve Wilhite: [link] Production and marketing by [link]. For inquiries about sponsoring the podcast, email podcast@lennyrachitsky.com.

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The Best of Everything Handpicked for PMs

The Product Cafe

💜 Welcome to this week's edition of Product Café, your weekly cup of coffee for everything product management, startups, AI, and more. Renowned for her practical approach to aligning product, marketing, and sales strategies. Kyle Poyar An authority in product-led growth, pricing, and SaaS market strategies.