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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. Beware of “tar pit ideas”: ideas that receive initial positive feedback but may lead to long-term challenges.

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Clearbit’s VP of Customer Success on turning economic headwinds into a growth opportunity

Intercom, Inc.

First, as the economy is buffeted by turbulent seas, companies must batten down the hatches and devote their time and attention to their current customers. Then, because budgets and resources are undoubtedly restricted, they must learn how to do more – with less. Automation has become a colossal aid for accomplishing both.

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Customer needs with JTBD–and other innovation insights for product managers July 15, 2016 - The Everyday Innovator – Resources for Product Managers and Innovators

Product Innovation Educators

Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers, developers, and innovators be heroes. Defining customer needs with jobs-to-be-done theory. New product development frequently begins by having keener insights into customers’ needs than competitors do.

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Business model first–and other innovation insights for product managers Aug 19, 2016 - The Everyday Innovator – Resources for Product Managers and Innovators

Product Innovation Educators

Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers, developers, and innovators be heroes. Products (wrongly) get created this way – product first, customer second, revenue third. How product managers can create new ideas. Should product managers be technical?

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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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How we use Slack at Slack

The Product Coalition

Our Customer Experience team sends every tweet to @SlackHQ into a channel to review and discuss (we have #love-tweets and #beef-tweets). The engineering team relies on PagerDuty, GitHub and other tools connected to Slack for incident management, making it faster to get the right people working on an incident.

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Crowdtesting – all you need to know

Usersnap

The customer finding it could damage your reputation. Negative online feedback is just a finger’s swipe away. It’s nice to have your customers testing the application. Crowdtesting is simply user testing through broader groups of people. Let’s look at the primary “Crowdsourcing” concept first. Let’s explore more.