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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

Prior to YC, he was the co-founder and CEO of imeem (acquired by MySpace in 2009) and the co-founder and CEO of App.net. Beware of “tar pit ideas”: ideas that receive initial positive feedback but may lead to long-term challenges. Refusing to accept failure, they persuade others of their inevitable success.

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What Can You Expect From Today’s Customer Analytics Landscape?

Indicative

Experts predict the Customer Analytics market will top $24 billion by 2025. Organizations need customer data to provide the empathetic, personalized experiences customer demand—and to stay competitive. Organizations need customer data to provide the empathetic, personalized experiences customer demand—and to stay competitive.

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A Guide to Customer Retention: 14 Proven Strategies to Retain More SaaS Customers

Userpilot

If you’re doing your job correctly as a product manager, customer retention should be the first thing you think about when you start your workday and the last thing you think about when you clock out. Allow us to walk you through the best strategies on the market right now for retaining customers. What is Customer Retention?

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What Is A SaaS Product Growth Strategy? [Examples Included]

Userpilot

A product growth manager is in charge of your product growth strategy: they are concerned with realistic KPI metrics and can achieve these by researching customer feedback and data, identifying opportunities for revenues, and testing products and features. a new customer segment (this can be demographic, behavioral, or psychological).

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Developing Product Management Confidence

bpma ProductHub

It’s the expectation of a positive outcome”. But how do you develop the confidence required to lead a team of stakeholders to a positive outcome? Alyssa Dver is here to deliver some insights in how to achieve that confidence. These words couldn’t be more relevant to product management.

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Onboarding Gamification – a 4 Step Formula to Gamify Your User Onboarding and Double Your Activation Without Coding

Userpilot

SaaS products took note – and started using the same principles to encourage their users to adopt their tools. Well, the $10 invested in getting the new user to complete the video tutorial will likely result in a much higher LTV. And their secret weapon for user growth, retention and feature adoption can be yours too.

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Will the economic downturn spark a new and better era of SaaS?

Gainsight

Here’s why SaaS, in particular, is uniquely positioned to help us change the recession narrative. In this new normal, success is all about the trifecta of efficient, durable growth anchored in customer lifetime value and profitability. In other words, with digital customer success, we can all easily do more with less.