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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. If your venture struggles and innovative strategies are exhausted, consider pivoting.

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

Product Innovation Educators

Innovation strategy is critical. One of their key tactics was to develop an innovation strategy. When I visited Corning, it didn’t matter whether we were visiting engineering, marketing, or sales—everybody could quote the innovation strategy. 21:48] How do winners resource front-end innovation?

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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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10 SaaS Knowledge Base Examples and Best Tools to Build Yours

Userpilot

A knowledge base, also known as help centers , describes a collection of resources that helps answer your customers’ questions. Good knowledge bases share common attributes: they help users find their own answers, they have strong search functionality, they are user-friendly, and offer multiple types of resources.

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The Korean Game Market: A Comprehensive Overview

The Product Coalition

As for genres, in Korea RPG s are number one (57.9%), followed by strategy (12.2%) and action (8.4%). In fact, in H1 of 2020, none of the top mobile games in South Korea were casual, while RPG, strategy, action, simulation, and sports were in the top 5 spots. Your best option is to combine crowdsourcing and professional localization.

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Maximize Engagement as a Remote Product Leader

ProductPlan

And crowdsource ideas for future activities and let the team vote for their top picks via a poll to ensure that as many people as possible are excited about participating. This also plants the seeds for frank conversations with stakeholders to discover what other methods to utilize to maximize the utilization of these key resources.

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

DISQO

In short, market research is extraordinarily effective for sensing broad marketplace changes and informing the organization about what markets to enter and what go-to-market strategies to deploy. Integrated together, market research and experimentation can enable organizations to allocate resources intelligently and efficiently.