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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. 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.

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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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5 strategies to drive your next wave of growth

Intercom, Inc.

Over the years, I’ve learned a lot through both successes and failures, and these are my top 5 strategies in scaling SaaS businesses from $1M to $500M in revenue: Expand your market. Then apply Lean Startup Principles to hiring by putting people in the role. It turns out there is a lot more work to do. How do you keep growing?

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

Lenny Rachitsky

Document improvement: Approximately 30% of users utilize ChatPRD to enhance existing specs, PRDs, strategy docs, or roadmaps, indicating its effectiveness in refining and iterating on initial project documentation.

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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. He is a key advisor and speaker known for his product strategy insights. Renowned for her practical approach to aligning product, marketing, and sales strategies.

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2018 on Inside Intercom

Intercom, Inc.

“The journey from startup to scale-up is a fascinating story, and we thoroughly enjoy sharing our perspective, our insights and our experiences” The journey from startup to scale-up is a fascinating story, and we thoroughly enjoy sharing our perspective, our insights and our experiences as we continue on that journey.