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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

If your venture struggles and innovative strategies are exhausted, consider pivoting. Companies like Brex and Segment thrived after significant pivots that drew on founders’ prior experiences and insights gained from initial concepts. But if there are still untapped ideas, persevere and try them first.

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6 Things I Learned About PLG and Customer Success

Gainsight

Yet, one cohort of CS leaders exists that I’ve found to truly be special snowflakes: Customer Success teams in companies that employ Product-led Growth strategies. Finally, for the main event, we asked the group to crowdsource a list of things that make Customer Success in the PLG world different. Here are the top 6 insights: 1.

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Crowdtesting – all you need to know

Usersnap

Let’s look at the primary “Crowdsourcing” concept first. The collation of inputs from large groups is called crowdsourcing. Crowdsourcing happens online. According to the 2017-18 World Quality Report , 34% of organizations in the software industry have used crowdsourced solution as a way to increase testing bandwidth.

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Connect Product Strategy to Execution in ProductPlan

ProductPlan

Finally, a place for strategy in ProductPlan. More recently, we’ve helped you crowdsource new ideas from customers and stakeholders alike , and create a consistent GTM process for every new launch. Now, we want to help you capture your product strategy. The Open Beta for Strategy will last through the end of August.

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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. You’ve got a decent set of customization options (although only on the Enterprise Plan), and while the drag and drop interface takes some getting used to it is fairly intuitive.

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Connect Product Strategy to Execution in ProductPlan

ProductPlan

Finally, a place for strategy in ProductPlan. More recently, we’ve helped you crowdsource new ideas from customers and stakeholders alike , and create a consistent GTM process for every new launch. Now, we want to help you capture your product strategy. The Open Beta for Strategy will last through the end of August.

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Isn't corporate Library due for Disruption?

SidsAvenue

The enterprise of today boasts of thousands of books on varied topics in its corporate library. I believe in the new avatar, the library should Be more personalized, more interactive and more aligned to the corporate culture and strategy. In the digital age, everything is expected to transform. To the employee satisfaction.