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Run Less Software

Intercom, Inc.

The same is true in software. In this battle, I’ve found a secret weapon hidden within one of our core engineering strategies, an idea called Run Less Software. As well as being a critical philosophy behind how we build software, it also represents how I feel about the software industry and technology in general.

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Top 10 Countries to Outsource Software Development in 2020

The Product Coalition

As an entrepreneur, CEO, or project manager, you might be interested in outsourcing software development to another country and getting still high-quality work done for fewer costs. Likely, we understand everything that may become your subject of concern when making a decision to hire an offshore software development company.

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How Merging Purpose With Profit Redefines Product Roadmaps And Product Success

The Product Coalition

So we got to talking about a software product we had collaborated on in the past. Founded in 2006 with a unique social mission: for every pair of shoes sold, they would donate a pair to a child in need, an initiative they called “One for One.” Let’s look first at Expensify, a business software company. And I swear it’s not.

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MarTech Stack Examples and Tools For SaaS Companies

Userpilot

TL;DR A marketing tech stack is any combination of software tools that marketing teams use to improve their campaigns. Marketing Automation Software helps automate repetitive marketing tasks such as email campaigns and lead nurturing. In this article, we examine some tools that can help your SaaS team to drive product growth.

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From PM to CEO: How Sundar Pichai’s Background in Product Paved the Way for Becoming CEO at Google

ProductPlan

But before we dissect this pivotal moment in Google’s history and how Pichai used it to propel Google into completely new markets—and himself up the corporate ladder—let’s step back and review how he even got to that position. Life before Google.

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Reflecting on the Intercom journey – Karen Peacock and Des Traynor in conversation

Intercom, Inc.

I had wanted to be in tech because I’d done a bunch of coding undergrad and engineering undergrad, and as tech started to take off in the mid to late nineties, I knew that I wanted to be in the Bay Area, in Silicon Valley. We were working together as consultants, where we basically designed and built software for other people.

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Coda’s Shishir Mehrotra on rethinking docs from scratch

Intercom, Inc.

I went from most of my day being watching other people do things, being in meetings and reviews and so on, to all of a sudden writing specs, doing designs and trying to figure out what the product was. And they would name a bunch of software, but they’d use Docs and Sheets to do just about everything. What did we build it in?