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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

Beware of “tar pit ideas”: ideas that receive initial positive feedback but may lead to long-term challenges. However, despite the positive feedback and validation, they can become difficult to pivot away from once their limitations become apparent.

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How we use Slack at Slack

The Product Coalition

I had to learn a new tool, and a new organization, all at once. Slack is a channel-based messaging platform We use channels to organize our work into focused, easily searchable conversations?—?for for announcements, teams, projects, culture and, of course, #pm-fun. At Slack, all work happens in channels.

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How Delta Testing Keeps the Focus on Customer Delight During Agile

Centercode

And of course, in sticking to the relentless pace of develop-test-validate-release-repeat, many teams fall into the “just ship it” mindset. So how do you generate the feedback you need to validate releases while maintaining agile speed and cadence? They’re not just crowdsourced QA testers. Avoiding the Speed Trap.

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How do market researchers add experimentation to drive better business outcomes?

DISQO

Incumbents across every industry have been put on notice: technology upstarts are taking over the Fortune 500 list at an accelerating pace. If you’re good at course correcting, being wrong may be less costly than you think, whereas being slow is going to be expensive for sure.”. No one wants to be the next Blockbuster.

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Maximize Engagement as a Remote Product Leader

ProductPlan

It also makes them feel like their input and feedback are more valued while expediting the resolution of time-sensitive issues, such as product launches. Keep your calendar updated—along with your status icons on your asynchronous messaging platform of choice—so your team can quickly see if you’re available for an impromptu interaction.

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How do market researchers add experimentation to drive better business outcomes?

DISQO

Incumbents across every industry have been put on notice: technology upstarts are taking over the Fortune 500 list at an accelerating pace. If you’re good at course correcting, being wrong may be less costly than you think, whereas being slow is going to be expensive for sure.”. No one wants to be the next Blockbuster.

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How do market researchers add experimentation to drive better business outcomes?

DISQO

Incumbents across every industry have been put on notice: technology upstarts are taking over the Fortune 500 list at an accelerating pace. If you’re good at course correcting, being wrong may be less costly than you think, whereas being slow is going to be expensive for sure.”. No one wants to be the next Blockbuster.