Mind the Product

APRIL 8, 2019

In 2008, he had to decide whether Shopify would remain the lifestyle business he set out to build or shift towards a growth company. Performance will improve when there’s a greater degree of autonomy and teams have more creative control over the product. With venture capital implications, it warranted thoughtful consideration.[1].

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Mind the Product

JULY 29, 2019

The banking industry changed significantly after the 2008 financial crisis. She discusses the challenges involved in starting a bank and how to succeed in a highly regulated industry. The Product Experience gap in Banking. More rules and regulations were put in place with banks facing heavy fines for breaches in compliance.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

You joined YouTube back in 2008, and you helped guide the company through hypergrowth after its acquisition by Google. When I got to YouTube in 2008, we had amazing growth in lots of different ways. When I showed up in 2008, YouTube was basically seen as a big mistake. This was 2008. I think that’s strong.

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First Round Review

MARCH 17, 2020

Bob Moore's first brush with life as a founder started in 2008—three days before Lehman Brothers collapsed. Since he cut his teeth as a first-time founder in turbulent times, he's gone on to build two other companies.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 13, 2020

However, as we could see it during the global economic crisis in 2008–2009, the numbers of angel investors may not go down but remain the same or even increase. Consequently, it may cause a slight decrease in investing startups and initiatives pitched by medium-sized companies. What will decrease indeed is the size of investments.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 26, 2021

an unbeatable value proposition Started during the 2008 crisis, it doesn’t need any introduction. Because according to their customer research the added value of this action is marginal and doesn’t justify the extra personnel cost for CM. shows technology, space efficiency and the multiskilled Ambassadors Airbnb?—?an

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 18, 2016

In 2008 25m people watched American Idol twice a week, with great audience engagement. She proposed a new strategy to the BBC “BBC out of home” which became its mobile strategy. This is a story as much about force of will as product management, says Cagan – today more than 50m people a week use BBC mobile products. Apple iTunes.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 1, 2018

I’ve been working with my co-founders since 2007-2008. 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. The nature of traction itself has changed quite a bit in that period.

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

chelsea green publishing, 2008. System Dynamics Review: The Journal of the System Dynamics Society, v. 345–358, 2007. MEADOWS, Donella H. Thinking in systems: A primer.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 7, 2021

It was established in 2008 in Poznan. The company has collaborated with hundreds of businesses worldwide, including brands like InterCars, Deloitte Digital, DHL, LUX MED (Bupa Group), Top Secret, Makro C&C, Rossmann, Sodexo, Bank BPH, and many others. Today, the company operates in 5 local offices in Warsaw, Kraków, Wroc?aw, sk and Bia?ystok.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 11, 2017

Published in 2008, Cagan continues Cooper’s work by instructing his readers to focus on their customer’s misery, rather than technical solutions. Like a cool breeze on a hot day, this seminal work by Marty Cagan from Silicon Valley Product Group is an easy-to-read primer on the role of a modern Product Manager.

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freshtrax

AUGUST 6, 2019

freshtrax published its first article in 2008. As we saw a need to provide services that complemented our design expertise, we also started offering marketing and branding services in 2008. Learn more about Startup Fukuoka here. Post-it sticky notes. Can you guess how many sticky notes btrax uses in a year? Major shifts in the company.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 26, 2019

When he joined Enomaly in 2008, Richard found himself at a company that was at the forefront of cloud computing having created the category when it was still nascent. It needs to be the right time to offer that solution and customers must be willing to spend money on it now as opposed to in the future.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 3, 2023

2009 was not easy after the 2008 crash, but we all lived through it in one piece. Even if someone was to say that Amazon failed Product, we need to recognize that they’ve learned their lesson at least in part. 2023 will, most likely, be a tough year.

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Sachin Rekhi

JANUARY 16, 2009

2008 definitely saw a rise in media APIs across the major media content types with ProgrammableWeb cataloging 38 music, 42 video, and 37 photo APIs. YouTube finally launched its own video APIs in a big way in March 2008, quickly becoming the default video API of choice. Media APIs. Browsing Experience.

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ProductCraft

AUGUST 1, 2019

If you had told me, a fresh 2008 graduate with a master’s degree in social work, that I’d eventually be working at a fast-growing tech startup as a product manager, I’d have laughed. To me, and probably to most people, they are two completely unrelated things. Coming from a small town in Georgia, I didn’t.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 16, 2022

Feels like 2008 to me. I remember major tech downturns in 1985, 1992, 2001 and 2008.  Especially COVID, global supply chain issues, war in Ukraine, inflation, energy supply disruptions, virtual currency meltdown… pick your precipitating event.  A  To pay it forward.*  To be a mensch.**

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Andrew Chen

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Nivi, half of the Venture Hacks blog, wrote back in 2008: The pitch is the perfect tool for fans who are spreading the word about your company. Third, it makes it easy for the people passionate about what you’re doing — your employees, investors, and customers — to spread the news about what you’re doing.

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The Accidental Product Manager

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

It is estimated that Americans over 55 will account for half of all domestic consumer-spending growth from 2008 to 2030. Older consumers have power in numbers: in 2018, there were 52 million Americans over the age of 65, a figure that will nearly double to 95 million by 2060.

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Userpilot

JULY 6, 2021

When Dropbox was first launched in 2008, software storage was relatively new, as was the market, and Dropbox had to convince its audience that they were better than physical storage. But surprisingly, they spend next to nothing on advertising. How did they become so successful?

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

How it all started For over a decade the definitions I adopted were based on the ultimate guru every PM (including myself) worships: Marty Cagan.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Back in 2008, I was a product manager at a startup that operated online communities for university alumni associations. It’s a bit hard to explain outside the context of a specific product challenge, so I’m going to start by sharing a story that I think will resonate with many of you, and then we’ll get into the tool itself.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

2008 saw an explosion in virtual currencies and their associated virtual goods all across the internet. To top it off, over $580 million was invested in virtual goods related startups in 2008. monthly active users on Facebook , respectively.

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Mironov Consulting

APRIL 19, 2017

I share three personal vignettes from 2001, 2008 and 2016 to highlight why face-to-face networking is so important — and ways we can all Pay It Forward to build an even stronger product community. This short talk is about Paying It Forward and the important of personal networking in the product management community.

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DevelopmentCorporate

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Will the impending recession in 2020 prompt another version of the infamous Sequoia 2008 RIP Good Times presentation? The post Will 2020 Be Sequoia’s RIP Good Times Redux? appeared first on Development Corporate.

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UX Studio: Product Management

MARCH 5, 2021

Dead Space (2008). It is fun because the UI is part of the narrative but also beneficial as user interface design is part of the core development. Simulators, by nature, often implement this idea, but diegetic UI shines the brightest in story-driven games like Dead Space. .

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

If you invested $1,000 in Starbucks at its low point in 2008, that investment would currently be worth over $14,000. In a period where analysts were calling for Starbucks to be dismantled and sold for parts, the company found a way to cut costs and remain true to one of their fundamental values of investing in their employees.

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DevelopmentCorporate

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

After surviving the DotCom bubble of 2000, the housing bubble (2008), and the Bitcoin bubble of 2018 are we witnessing the start of an NFT bubble? NFTs have been around since 2014. It is estimated that there were $25 billion of NFT sales in 2021.

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Sachin Rekhi

JANUARY 5, 2009

Based on what I've seen, there are three music verticals that I am bullish about and 5 exciting startups that have started to pursue them in 2008 and expect to see much more from them in the new year. In 2008 we started to see what the next generation of music gaming will look like. Music Gaming.

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Sachin Rekhi

MAY 7, 2022

The Lean Startup methodology, first described in 2008 by Eric Ries, has taken the startup world by storm. His 2011 book, The Lean Startup , has become a New York Times best seller, selling millions of copies to aspirational entrepreneurs.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

The job title only came into David Norris ’ vocabulary in about 2008. I had no idea what I was doing, but then no one else did. You just made it up as you went along in 2000. Before that he’d been through numerous roles that had been doing that job without realising it – Production Manager, Producer, Operations Manager are all examples.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

In a heartfelt testimony, Rebecca recalls how her little brother came down with a rare autoimmune brain disorder back in 2008. Helen Egger — launched Little Otter. The company means a great deal to both of them.

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Business of Software Conference

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Ben and some of the Mailchimp leadership have been regulars since it began in 2008. $1B I still remember enjoying your BoS talk waaaay back in 2008. I knew exactly where he would be on those dates. At Business of Software Conference. Was it the “12 flaming hoops of VC?” It all worked out in the end!

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Imaginary Cloud - Design

JULY 8, 2021

Apartamento Magazine is an interiors magazine that started in Spain (2008) and soon conquered worldwide attention for documenting " the everyday charm of the humble home " It features people, their homes, and how they live inside those homes. A cool design does not need to try to be cool; it simply is.

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NextBigWhat

OCTOBER 4, 2020

In 2008 Facebook’s user growth hit a wall at 80M and we were having serious debates about whether any social network could ever reach 100M users. We barely grew users or revenue in 2008. I thought he would last a month, but he never missed a single day all year. And the company executed like hell.”

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Imaginary Cloud - Design

APRIL 16, 2020

Look at the example of the world-wide famous Starbucks when expanding to Australia: the northern american chain decided to open their business in Australia in 2000 and by 2008, it had 87 open stores. Don't underestimate user research.

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Rich is the author of “The Art of Product Management” (2008), and founded the first Product Camp. Rich has been the “product guy” at six Silicon Valley start-ups, and his long-running blog covers software, start-ups, product strategies, and the inner life of product managers.

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