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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

They possess an unwavering conviction in their startup’s potential, even in the face of daunting obstacles. Beware of “tar pit ideas”: ideas that receive initial positive feedback but may lead to long-term challenges. Refusing to accept failure, they persuade others of their inevitable success.

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Bending the universe in your favor | Claire Vo (LaunchDarkly, Color, Optimizely, ChatPRD)

Lenny Rachitsky

Brought to you by: • Orb —The flexible billing engine for modern pricing • Dovetail —Bring your customer into every decision • Vanta —Automate compliance. Normalize feedback: Create a culture where giving and receiving feedback is encouraged and valued.

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9 Best Onboarding Platforms for SaaS Companies

Userpilot

Do you need it to support customer or employee onboarding processes? TL;DR Onboarding platforms allow organizations to design personalized onboarding experiences that enable new users to realize the product value. They also offer feedback features and analytics to support data-driven decision-making. What’s your budget?

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2018 on Inside Intercom

Intercom, Inc.

Intercom, the product, continued to develop at a fast pace with hundreds of new features big and small – from an entirely reimagined Messenger to a thriving Intercom App Store to next generation chatbots, Custom Bots and Answer Bot. Putting $125M to work for you, our customers. Lessons learned from scaling a team. Eoghan McCabe, CEO.

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The Best of Everything Handpicked for PMs

The Product Cafe

💜 Welcome to this week's edition of Product Café, your weekly cup of coffee for everything product management, startups, AI, and more. We've been following them for a long time and are really grateful for their unique insights. He is a key advisor and speaker known for his product strategy insights.

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11 Books To Read As A Product Manager

Bain Public

Here are our top 11 best books to read as a product manager: The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You by Julie Zhuo This handbook is about the perfect book for those new to the job and want to learn how to become the manager you’ve always wanted. Writing Is Designing: Words and the User Experience by Michael J.

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The 13 Proven Customer Retention Strategies For SaaS Companies [A Guide]

Userpilot

A successful customer retention strategy requires constant iteration and innovation to keep up with an ever-changing SaaS market environment. It’s also not like customer retention is the business of only one department. We have also asked experts from each department about their Customer Retention Strategy – so let’s dive in!