Business of Software Conference

MARCH 20, 2025

At BoS Europe 2025 , were excited to feature two lightning talks that tackle some of the biggest challenges in leadership and product development. Steve and Gareth are bringing real-world insights that will challenge the way you think about product development and leadership. Grab the Early Bird rate

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The Product Bistro

JANUARY 31, 2017

Then in 2007 it all changed. On June 29 th , 2007, Apple launched the original iPhone. Agile development and Lean Startup. One of the damning aspects of traditional business is the pace of development. But agile development on its own is only half the story. Still, the second wave of web businesses began to thrive.

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The Secret PM Handbook

MAY 12, 2017

Product managers tell me – and the people managing product managers tell me – that one of their biggest challenges is communicating with the development team. People complain about: Developers being poorly motivated, or having a bad attitude about what you want them to build. Our Requirements Are Letting The Developers Down.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 22, 2017

Then in 2007, Netflix launched their streaming platform. In 2007, Netflix started to look into partnering with hardware manufacturers to get Netflix content streaming on people’s televisions. An example he uses is Amazon’s attempt to develop a mobile phone – It was an enormous failure. In 2002, Netflix went public.

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The Secret PM Handbook

MAY 12, 2017

Product managers tell me – and the people managing product managers tell me – that one of their biggest challenges is communicating with the development team. People complain about: Developers being poorly motivated, or having a bad attitude about what you want them to build. Our Requirements Are Letting The Developers Down.

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 26, 2020

A lot has changed since The 4-Hour Work Week was published in 2007. Thank you for being an Everyday Innovator and learning with me from the successes and failures of product innovators, managers, and developers. 9:59] In order to become Time Rich, what behaviors should we avoid? - attributed to Calvin Coolidge .

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

In this incredible talk from Mind the Product London 2017, Jake Knapp shared how he developed the Design Sprint, and how to do them well. At Google in 2007, the same thing was happening. Not only does this save a lot of time and money, it also results in better end products that people will love. The Genesis.

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Andrew Chen

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

This is advice I’ve been giving to people for years, and it’s shaped by my own experience — after all, I moved to the Bay Area in 2007 and it completely changed my life. I asked everyone about this topic, and began to develop my own ideas that I would share freely. There were people building robots and hardware.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 18, 2019

Tech billionaire Marc Andreessen has been credited with bringing the term “product/market fit” into the mainstream lexicon in 2007. Through a series of build-measure-learn iterations, it is discovered and developed during a process rather than a single Eureka moment. Companies with strong traction almost always exceeded that threshold.

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Modus Create

JANUARY 9, 2025

From iPhone to AI By Patrick Sheridan Posted in Digital Transformation , Product Published on: January 9, 2025 Last update: January 9, 2025 How lessons from the mobile boom can help navigate the new era of software development Were going to make some history together today. Within a week of the launch, Apple sold 1 million iPhones.

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Sachin Rekhi

AUGUST 23, 2022

In 2007 I founded my first startup, Anywhere.FM, which developed a web music player that allowed you to upload your entire music collection to the web and then stream it from anywhere. Influenced by being an early Y Combinator company, we leveraged the emerging Lean Startup methodology popularized by Eric Ries.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 22, 2018

Mobile-phone based payment system M-Pesa first launched in Kenya in 2007. Chris was part of the development team when M-Pesa launched, he then moved on to run its architecture and redesigned the system to support 400,000 transactions per second. The Story of M-Pesa and M-Shwari. Be Passionate. It’s a simple as that.

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TurnKey Labs

JANUARY 8, 2024

Nowadays, there is no doubt that mobile app development is a thriving industry. Perhaps on June 29, 2007, when the first iPhone was introduced, few people in the world realized what a huge billion-dollar industry mobile apps were turning into.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 14, 2019

The market is saturated with hundreds of FinTech software development companies, so it can be challenging to choose the one that best fits your business. Are you looking for the best FinTech developer to build a robust payment app, personal accounting app, or banking application?

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Mind the Product

APRIL 27, 2018

A Twitter user used it in 2007 as a way to track conversations when he tweeted at some of his friends. FourSquare, for example, saw that people were checking into venues on Twitter, and developed a business model around that. They decided to develop an SMS-based service to get something up and running quickly. The Project.

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TurnKey Labs

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Nowadays, there is no doubt that mobile app development is a thriving industry. Perhaps on June 29, 2007, when the first iPhone was introduced, few people in the world realized what a huge billion-dollar industry mobile apps were turning into.

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Business of Software Conference

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

IDR Solutions is a small IT software company that helps developers worldwide from companies such as Adobe to work with PDF documents. BoS has a distinct environment that promotes mutual trust and curiosity, making it possible for organic conversations to develop beyond simple networking. Grab the Early Bird rate

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Melissa Perri

MAY 13, 2016

In 2007 I joined an innovation swat team at Cornell in the Johnson Graduate School of Business. To understand these needs, you have to also understand the timing of 2007. Innovation has to be woven into all your product development teams. I want to know what people expect from me. Execution is 9/10th of the battle.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 28, 2018

When I moved to Silicon Valley in 2007, self-serve software was all the rage. Ten years later, there’s still a sense that startups can simply develop a product, lean back, and let the software do all the work. The people you hire provide just as much value as your product. Everyone wanted to create products that sold themselves.

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Sachin Rekhi

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

And then in 2007 he launched the SEOMoz Pro Membership subscription product to an existing audience of 10,000 marketers specifically interested in SEO. Next time you find yourself in the middle of deep initial product development, think about whether such a blog strategy makes sense to create an audience well before your product launch.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

In 2007, the company launched its streaming service, allowing subscribers to instantly watch a vast library of movies and TV shows online. However, with the rise of streaming technology, Netflix introduced its streaming service in 2007, initially bundled with DVD rental subscriptions at no extra cost.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Paul Kenny has been a regular attendee at Business of Software Conference since it started in 2007 and has spoken several times before, and for good reason. Over the last 25 years, he has helped to develop salespeople and sales managers working in media, technology and the professional services sectors. Paul Kenny // Ocean Learning.

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Sachin Rekhi

JANUARY 6, 2013

The meteoric rise of developer platforms over the last seven years has been impressive to watch and a major boon to the social and mobile ecosystems. In developing Connected, I saw some third-party APIs that had well functioning API ecosystems, while many certainly did not. Platform competes directly with existing applications.

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Product Talk

MARCH 30, 2016

As a Product Talk reader, you already know that interviewing can be an effective way to develop a deeper understanding of your customer’s world. Back in 2007, I worked on a product that helped big company recruiters recruit candidates. As long as your brain can summon a compelling story, it will feel like the truth—even if it isn’t.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

She joined the company in 2007 back when it was just 30 people and has been instrumental in helping the company scale both its team and its market share over the years. Developing a customer-centric team. Gainsight research backs this up. Ultimately, customer success can’t be the focus of a single team.

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 12, 2017

The Strategy Canvas was developed by Kim and Mauborgne, the authors of Blue Ocean Theory. The dark one represents the value curve of the smartphone industry in 2007; the light one the first iPhone. The Strategy Canvas. It was originally intended as a business strategy tool to discover new markets.

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Arkenea

JANUARY 1, 2025

Like Arkenea, that’s been in existence for over 10 years and is rated as the top custom healthcare software development company. How apps became such a vital part of our lives and how they went through a dramatic change and development. “Developers canreach every single iPhone user through App Store.”

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

His work led to the development of System Dynamics, a quantitative method for modeling and simulating complex systems. Strategic Stakeholder Management Mapping all relevant stakeholders and developing systemic strategies to meet their needs and manage relationships. 345–358, 2007. FORRESTER, Jay Wright. MEADOWS, Donella H.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 17, 2018

to find this year’s top app development agencies. After reading a bunch of content from other app development professionals, journalists, tech bloggers and the like, we realized that there are many good companies out there, and that everyone has a different favorite. It develops for Android and iOS, but also for the web.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 1, 2018

I’ve been working with my co-founders since 2007-2008. We developed all these tips and tricks that would help us optimize what happens when they land. You can check out the slides and video below. Would you prefer a written account? What follows is a lightly edited transcript of the presentation. This was around 2010.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2021

Most of all, use it to stop sales driven development from derailing delivery. When Amazon started planning to release the Kindle in 2007, it didn’t start with a fully formed plan. In part two of this article , you’ll work with your development team to add potential projects to the roadmap. Framework Step 1?—?Vision

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The Product Coalition

MAY 11, 2020

The benefit to using microservices is that development teams are able to rapidly build new components of apps to meet changing business needs. [2] It is easier to develop and build as well. Thus, makes the strategy and development roadmap different from each other. This architecture are pretty straightforward.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 7, 2022

Mark, Parker, Frank, and Dave were developing their prototype in a one-bedroom rental apartment in San Francisco’s Telegraph Hill – they wore Hawaiian print shirts, brought their dogs to work, and had a poster of the Dalai Lama from one of Apple’s campaigns encouraging them to “think different.” We even developed products.

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freshtrax

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Let’s look at five of the most influential developments in design and innovation from the past 20 years. Smartphones & Touch Screen (2007-Present) Apple’s iPhone launch in 2007 marked a turning point in technology and design. It’s exciting to imagine what developments may be coming next.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 29, 2022

It’s a free tool that HubSpot launched in 2007 that scores your website based on factors like speed, SEO, mobile-friendliness, and security. Engineering as marketing is the practice of using your engineering time to develop complementary free tools that provide value to your target audience and generate leads for your main product.

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Userpilot

JULY 8, 2021

Invented in 2007 by Dave McClure, pirate metrics is a framework that is still used by businesses to measure and optimize customer interaction across their lifecycle. The pirate metrics framework was developed by Dave McClure from 500 Startups and introduced in his 2007, presentation entitled “Startup Metrics for Pirates.”.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JULY 7, 2024

Develop non-consensus and right insights: Form insights about how to leverage inflection points that are both non-consensus and right. Disagreeableness: Founders who challenge the status quo often appear disagreeable because they defy conventional norms.

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