Andrew Chen

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Starting in April, I’m returning to my roots to invest in and help grow the next generation of startups. I’ll be focused on consumer startups, bottoms up SaaS, marketplaces, and more – utilizing my expertise in growth to launch and scale new companies. Incredibly excited.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 11, 2020

So I want to share my take when to suggest for monolithic and when to suggest for microservices from several aspects: Product Phases When our product are still on proof of concept / MVP phase, I strongly suggest to use monolithic architecture , since there is no guarantee that the product would be used often.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 13, 2021

Educating the market is hard enough as is, but there is one thing without which you cannot succeed. It was Friday, November 16th, 2007. This point is so important that I want to emphasize it once more: you can educate the market to use your product if the potential customers have a strong unmet need that your product can answer.

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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. Step 3 to implement pirate metrics in your SaaS: use a product adoption tool and A/B test in-product experiences to drive those metrics up. What are Pirate Metrics?

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 18, 2019

In late 2007, a pair of roommates found themselves scraping their wallets to come up with enough cash to cover their exorbitant San Francisco rent. This is episode six of Scale , a brand new podcast series on moving from startup to scale up. Focus on people, not just product. Why do most startups fail?

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Andrew Chen

MARCH 18, 2019

What distribution channels should a new consumer internet startup consider in 2019? What is your advice for startup CEOs? All of that said, beyond the obvious things (team, market, product, etc.) First, it’s interesting when a startup using a new platform or a new technology in a clever way.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 29, 2022

You can then use that score to make product improvements, find patterns in user behavior, and send relevant in-app messages to specific segments. One of the most well-known (and original) examples of engineering as marketing is HubSpot’s Website Grader. Why is engineering as marketing important?

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Andrew Chen

JANUARY 9, 2020

Fascinating discussion about what it’s like for a serial entrepreneur to raise money, operate a startup, lessons learned, etc. Why startups are hard – the math of venture capital tells the story. Why startups are hard – the math of venture capital tells the story. Is your startup idea already taken?

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Bain Public

MARCH 20, 2021

FITC Toronto 2008, Canada FITC Toronto 2007, Canada Flash Belt 2007, Minneapolis, U.S. Flash Forward 2007, Boston, U.S. Flash Belt 2008, Minneapolis, U.S. Flash Forward 2008, San Francisco, U.S. FITC Winnipeg 2006, Canada FITC Toronto 2006, Canada FITC Toronto 2005, Canada Flash Forward 2005, New York, U.S.

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Userpilot

JULY 5, 2022

Small but regular improvements are a more reliable way to achieve product-market fit. Disruptive innovation is what many SaaS startups aspire to. They enter the market at its bottom, challenge existing business or product norms and work their way up. Achieve product-market fit faster… and keep it.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

As many of you know, I'm a huge proponent of on-demand computing as I believe it's the best starting point for most early stage web startups. At my previous startup Anywhere.FM , we were an early adopter of Amazon Web Services in 2007.

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The Basics of Product Management

JULY 21, 2020

It is all a question about timing and finding the right product market fit. Apple products are known to possess a certain style element that captures the user’s imagination. This holds true for all the recent Apple product categories. The Apple iPhone was a game changer in 2007. Well, yes and no.

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The Product Cafe

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Hello, all you product-loving folks! 🥰 Welcome to this week's edition of Product Café, your weekly cup of coffee for everything product management, startups, and more. ☕ Thank you for reading Product Café’s newsletter ☕️ Subscribe for free to receive new posts every week!

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Andrew Chen

MARCH 18, 2019

What distribution channels should a new consumer internet startup consider in 2019? What is your advice for startup CEOs? All of that said, beyond the obvious things (team, market, product, etc.) First, it’s interesting when a startup using a new platform or a new technology in a clever way.

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Business of Software Conference

APRIL 17, 2020

Having founded Doist in 2007, Amir Salihefendic is the CEO and founder of the company behind Todoist and Twist. So, we are creators of two tools; One is a task manager app that I started actually in 2007. And I kind of find like a product market fit todoist. And I needed to hire people.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 11, 2020

Currently, he’s co-founder and CEO of Drift, a startup that’s making it easier for businesses to talk to their customers. Previously, he was at HubSpot as Chief Product Officer after they acquired his company Performable. David Cancel // CEO & Co-founder, Drift. ML : Fantastic. What was the first company? E-commerce is dead.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Tim Barker has established three startups and has seen the ups and downs of the startup journey, from his first business being acquired by Salesforce – where he spent five years in the formative age of cloud computing – to his current company DataSift being acquired by Meltwater in 2018. Tim Barker, CEO, DataSift.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 30, 2021

And there were lots of conferences for startups and lots of conferences for people that were raising funds and IPO going and all sorts of crazy old things. So you’ve come in and you’ve been running annual conferences since 2007, and then bi annual conferences since 2014, when you launched the EU as well as the US conference.

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Sachin Rekhi

JUNE 25, 2017

Another incredibly important aspect for product managers to master is defining and iterating on your product's strategy. A compelling strategy details exactly how you'll dominate your market and is constantly refined until you find product/market fit. Design is the third critical dimension of product management.

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Sachin Rekhi

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Marc Andreessen initially introduced the concept of product/market fit in this post published in 2007. It was an incredibly helpful notion to explain why startup products were failing left & right as well as provided a guiding north star on what you ultimately needed to achieve to build a successful startup.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 24, 2021

And then you end up building multiple products over a number of years, we launched in 2004, we launch Basecamp, and 2005, we launch Ta-da list, and then we launched Backpack in the same year in 2006, we launched Campfire. In 2007, we launched Highrise; we launched a new product every year for like four or five years, basically.

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 26, 2016

Matt Wensing: 1 Startup In 10 Years vs 1,000 Startups in 10 Minutes. Rahul Vohra: The Product-Market Fit Engine. Claire Suellentrop: Get Out Of The Echo Chamber: How To Use JTBD To Perfect Your Product’s Messaging. Nilan Peiris: Building A High-Growth Startup Sustainably. Eric Ries: The Startup Way.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 28, 2025

We’d met a couple of years earlier, in 2007, when Google bought their startup. The three of us started talking about an idea for a new product: video conferencing software that could run in a web browser. If I asked a team what differentiated their product from the competition, I got a 60-minute debate.

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