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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. They possess an unwavering conviction in their startup’s potential, even in the face of daunting obstacles.

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Top Data Labeling Tools for Machine Learning Projects

The Product Coalition

Amazon Mechanical Turk Also known as MTurk, Amazon Mechanical Turk is a popular crowdsourcing marketplace commonly used for data labeling. Furthermore, MTurk places a heavy project management burden on requesters to design tasks and recruit workers themselves.

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What we learned moving sales and product upmarket together

Intercom, Inc.

As Intercom’s customer base moved upmarket, it became increasingly obvious to us in Sales that what worked well in our product for early-stage startups didn’t for larger companies. To fix it, we had to change how we worked with our product team. But in doing that, our suggestions became far too broad.

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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. 3 characteristics of great product managers. (1) Product managers need others to create products and this means having influence, which starts with relationships. 2) Curiosity.

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Product Mindset: Encouraging Ownership in a Scrum Team

The Product Coalition

The trick to avoiding this fate is to start including the Development Team as early as possible in Product Backlog management which requires a product mindset. To dive into the question of the business model, we utilize either the business model canvas or its cousin, the Lean canvas, if you are working for a startup.

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

DISQO

In an effort to get closer to Amazon’s benchmark of having 70% of the information needed, some product managers even go to nearby Starbucks to generate feedback from random patrons. DE Shaw incubated a startup and validated an initial offering 3x faster than usual. It’s not a rigorous practice by any means.

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

DISQO

In an effort to get closer to Amazon’s benchmark of having 70% of the information needed, some product managers even go to nearby Starbucks to generate feedback from random patrons. DE Shaw incubated a startup and validated an initial offering 3x faster than usual. It’s not a rigorous practice by any means.