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Top 10 Japanese Startups

freshtrax

This makes it a hot spot for startups in Japan because of how much potential there is to grow there. These investments stimulate entrepreneurship in Japan causing the Japanese startup scene to be hotter than ever before. Curious to know which innovative startups are successful in Japan? Related article? Market Capitalization.

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What 14 startup investors and advisors taught us about chasing (and finding) product-market fit

Mixpanel

It’s been a long-held notion in startup circles that lack of product-market fit will doom even the scrappiest of teams to fail. There’s a reason, after all, that Y Combinator chose the slogan “make something people want” shortly after they were founded in 2005. ” Credit: The Lean Startup Playbook. In short, yes.

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Product Failure is An Opportunity

The Product Coalition

Odeo was a small podcasting startup in 2005. It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, or a relationship is over?—?and For smaller companies it’s typically competitors who pose the largest threat. A product should be cut when a product’s purpose is met by a similar product of higher growth potential.

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What’s next for marketplace startups? Reinventing the $10 trillion service economy, that’s what.

Andrew Chen

Is there still room for marketplace startups to innovate? Am excited to share a vision on the past and future of the service economy, in a collaboration by my a16z colleague Li Jin. Angie’s List, a home services site founded in 2005, carves off Craigslist’s household services category. We answer, emphatically, yes!

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When You Should Not Listen to Your Customers

The Product Coalition

For instance, when a startup called Kajako incorporated the 5 Whys into their feedback loops, they ended up solving more problems with less work. In fact, Steve Jobs had a hard time convincing the rest of the organisation because the data did not support his vision. This examination helps to reveal the problem behind the solution.

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Salesforce’s Mike Kreaden on how to build a platform to drive growth

Intercom, Inc.

Mike has been in and around startups for the better part of three decades: as a consultant, as a co-founder and now as the Managing Director of Salesforce Incubator, which propels new startups into the marketplace. He joined me for a chat that ranged from the role of AI to how they choose startups to incubate. Short on time?

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Business Development vs. Product Management

The Product Guy

He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations. From head of product at an early stage startup to managing global web properties at American Express, his career has taken him to the UK, France and back to New York.