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The secret to boosting your AI adoption? A culture of experimentation

Modus Create

Foundation principles for a culture of experimentation Before jumping into structure, let’s ground our experiment in the principles that shaped it: Validated learning from The Lean Startup by Eric Ries: Rather than measuring success by output, we measured it by what we learned. That’s validated learning: knowledge as a deliverable.

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Building a magical AI code editor used by over 1 million developers in four months: The untold story of Windsurf | Varun Mohan (co-founder & CEO)

Lenny Rachitsky

For inquiries about sponsoring the podcast, email podcast@lennyrachitsky.com. Lenny may be an investor in the companies discussed.

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Announcing our latest book – The Growth Handbook

Intercom, Inc.

We’ve just launched our latest book, The Growth Handbook. Whether you’re at an early stage startup contemplating life after the TechCrunch bump, or a more mature business with many millions in ARR, your company’s survival depends on finding a sustainable answer. That’s what The Growth Handbook is all about.

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TEI 290: What product managers must know about Customer Development and Lean Startup – with Steve Blank

Product Innovation Educators

In 2012 I read a book titled, Startup Owner’s Manual: The Step-by-Step Guide for Building a Great Company. Later, like many of us, I learned about Lean Startup thinking from Eric Ries and found threads to adjacent thinking that was in the Startup Owner’s Manual. Successful startups ignored that advice.

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470: Strategies for enhanced product innovation in organizations – with Andy Binns

Product Innovation Educators

Our first book was Corporate Explorer: How Corporations Beat Startups at Innovation. This sounds outrageous, but although it is challenging for corporations to innovate and get into a market ahead of a startup, it does happen far more often than we realize. Nobody listened to him, so he left and went to a startup.

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Why SaaS growth isn’t just about acquiring new customers

Intercom, Inc.

The median SaaS startup takes 11 months to make back the money spent acquiring a customer. This post was excerpted from “The Sales Handbook” The post Why SaaS growth isn’t just about acquiring new customers appeared first on Inside Intercom. The cost of selling SaaS can be pretty high.

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Startup CTO or Developer

TechEmpower - Product Management

What does it mean to be a CTO for a startup? Should a startup CTO spend their time programming? Here’s a graphic from Socal CTO that illustrates the roles as they change over time: In its earliest days, a startup’s top need is often to produce a product. What does the role demand? Exploring new technologies? It might be.