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Seven Tips for Building a Business in a Recession From Someone Who Did Exactly That in 2008

The Product Coalition

Seven Tips for Building A Business in A Recession From Someone Who Did Exactly That in 2008 Even amid chaos, there’s a chance for opportunity Ashish Toshniwal, CEO and Co-founder at YML Calm seas never made a great sailor, and in March 2009, I unintentionally broached into a tsunami. from a familiar name. Let me know if we can help.”

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Coda’s Shishir Mehrotra on rethinking docs from scratch

Intercom, Inc.

How do you name an all-in-one solution for a plethora of problems, which – until now – have required individual tools? 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.

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15 Fun Facts About btrax

freshtrax

Have you ever wondered where the name “btrax” comes from? freshtrax published its first article in 2008. The current btrax office has 7 meeting rooms, each named after a typeface. Since typography is such a crucial factor in design, it’s only fitting that each room is named after one. You can read about the launch here.

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The 5 Most Trusted Mobile App Development Companies in Poland for 2021

The Product Coalition

The company has collaborated with startups, small businesses, medium-sized ventures and global names like Google, Huawei, Bolt, MyTaxi, Pipedrive, ZoomEngage, Atlassian, and Codio. It was established in 2008 in Poznan. Netguru Netguru is one of the leading product design and software development companies in Poland. sk and Bia?ystok.

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The Six Essential Books that Every Product Manager Should Read

Mind the Product

Relevant, applicable, and funny, I regularly name Inmates as the first book any product team member should read to understand what we’re trying to accomplish and why. Published in 2008, Cagan continues Cooper’s work by instructing his readers to focus on their customer’s misery, rather than technical solutions.

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Sorry Marty, I love you but I don’t use your definitions of Product anymore

The Product Coalition

Product management is not just that, it’s a key business function (also known as company function) the same way engineering, finance, sales and human resources are, to name a few. 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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Paying It Forward

Mironov Consulting

Feels like 2008 to me. I remember major tech downturns in 1985, 1992, 2001 and 2008.  Especially  For the first time, I was asking for help rather than offering it, which was new and strange and deeply humbling for a name-brand MBA.  But Tech will recover, but layoffs can be catastrophic for those individuals.  So