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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

Understanding the distinction between a genuinely innovative startup idea and one that merely garners initial enthusiasm can save founders time, resources, and energy in the long run, steering them toward more promising ventures. A successful pivot often entails focusing on familiar problems and refining previous solutions.

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The Korean Game Market: A Comprehensive Overview

The Product Coalition

If you want to conquer the Asian gaming market, South Korea should be on your list of countries to focus on. As the world’s fourth- largest game market, South Korea provides game developers with plenty of opportunities. In this article we’ll briefly review the Korean game market and see what kind of players prefer what kind of games.

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429: Innovation practices of the best companies – with Sally Kay

Product Innovation Educators

After working in R&D, Finance, Sales, and Marketing she focused her career on various areas of innovation and new product development. When I visited Corning, it didn’t matter whether we were visiting engineering, marketing, or sales—everybody could quote the innovation strategy. Intense front-end focus is also important.

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

Intercom, Inc.

Then, because budgets and resources are undoubtedly restricted, they must learn how to do more – with less. Clearbit , the leading marketing data engine, has reaped the rewards of automation firsthand – leveraging it for everything from identifying churn risks to closing renewals, all without human involvement.

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

DISQO

Look no further than Amazon – in a 2017 letter to shareholders , CEO Jeff Bezos, credited a decision-making model for the company’s ability to deliver value to the market faster: “Most decisions should probably be made with somewhere around 70% of the information you wish you had. It’s not a rigorous practice by any means.

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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

Next perform primary research (know your customers) and secondary research (market and environment influences). An innovation incubator that crowdsources solutions to common problems using NASA’s data is an impressive weekend hackathon. Read more at [link]. Innovation culture encompasses how employees feel about the work they do.

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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

I have personally been expanding my knowledge of online marketing and in the process have discovered tools and concepts that help me as a product manager. 2) Crowdsourcing ideas frequently. (3) Read about this and the other two characteristics at [link]. A quick example of retargeting – something product managers should know.