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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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10 SaaS Knowledge Base Examples and Best Tools to Build Yours

Userpilot

A particularly nice touch is including an ‘Ask the community’ option, effectively crowdsourcing customer support amongst your users. FigJam’s knowledge base is a fantastic example of a resource that helps users navigate resources while reinforcing their product positioning. Get a demo to see how.

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Black Women’s Business Collective founder Zanade Mann on advocating for your peers

Intercom, Inc.

What began as a crowdsourcing initiative quickly evolved into an ecosystem where women can access funding, business training, and community building to help their businesses scale. Use your position to open the door to people with little access , share resources, and good opportunities.

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Humans Are Awesome/Terrible At Risk Management | Andy Ellis, Akamai | BoS USA 2019

Business of Software Conference

Nothing really happened positively here. This is actually crowdsourced words I didn’t even come up with these on my own. We’ve all heard that before and I posit that we use the word bad or synonyms because we’re fundamentally polite human beings. This wasn’t a good conversation. Those of you from the UK?