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 7, 2021

The company has collaborated with startups, small businesses, medium-sized ventures and global names like Google, Huawei, Bolt, MyTaxi, Pipedrive, ZoomEngage, Atlassian, and Codio. Fireart ranks as the leader among Top Mobile App Development Companies for Startups on MobileAppDaily on a global scale. sk and Bia?ystok.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 24, 2019

Mike has been in and around startups for the better part of three decades: as a consultant, as a co-founder and now as the Managing Director of Salesforce Incubator, which propels new startups into the marketplace. He joined me for a chat that ranged from the role of AI to how they choose startups to incubate. Short on time?

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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. The Lean Startup. Actually you could easily estimate that The Lean Startup is responsible for launching millions of experiments. by Eric Ries.

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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. Origin of Lean Thinking. Thiel starts by sharing the origin story of lean thinking.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

How has that transition been for you, going from the giant company that is Google back to the early-stage startup that is Coda? 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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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Once upon a time there was a group of founders who ran a small startup. But that same resolution is terrible for startups, or companies of any size for that matter. If you invested $1,000 in Starbucks at its low point in 2008, that investment would currently be worth over $14,000. So, how does this translate to our world?

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 1, 2018

I’ve been working with my co-founders since 2007-2008. The biggest thing I find myself beating into the heads of either startups who I chat with or new folks who start at Intercom is this idea that if you’re doing things right, you’re going to ship a lot. You can check out the slides and video below.

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freshtrax

AUGUST 6, 2019

From internship to startup. Before btrax Japan opened, a few eager Japanese entrepreneurs and students joined btrax in San Francisco to gain experience working for a startup in Silicon Valley. btrax has organized multiple startup events since 2010 including Japan Night and Asian Night to foster entrepreneurs from overseas.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 3, 2023

Quoting Eric Ries, from “the lean startup”: “The only way to win is to learn faster than anyone else” You test and iterate to learn the best way to do business in a way “that our customers love and yet work for our business”, as Marty Cagan would say. 2009 was not easy after the 2008 crash, but we all lived through it in one piece.

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freshtrax

AUGUST 3, 2021

Gender gap in various industries has been a topic of discussion with there being a huge gap in the percentage of women who are startup entrepreneurs. This is especially true in Japan, where the gender gap in the startup community is even wider than the U.S. The startup world is completely male dominated. tomochinski.

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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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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. Media API Mashups. Browsing Experience.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

The job title only came into David Norris ’ vocabulary in about 2008. Early Stage Startup Product Managers are Founders. In an early stage startup, the Product Manager is the founder – burning through their own cash to make it happen. Once a startup is funded, then you will usually hire your first Product Manager.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 16, 2022

 I don’t know how long it will last, or how deep it will go, but over the last few weeks many companies announced staff cuts or closed startups. Feels like 2008 to me. I remember major tech downturns in 1985, 1992, 2001 and 2008.  Especially  Especially 2001.  I

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Business of Software Conference

AUGUST 5, 2019

What could he learn if his computer could run 1,000 different startups in minutes, not years? Matt Wensing (Founder, Riskpulse) – 1 Startup In 10 Years vs 1,000 Startups in 10 Minutes from Business of Software Conference. So what if we had a simulation for startup-land – what would that look like? Transcript.

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Andrew Chen

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

and finally, what happens when my “X for Y” startup idea is taken? People love describing startups as “X for Y” — why? ” In fact, Marketwatch did an analysis of startup company descriptions and found that startups often compared themselves to other companies in their descriptions.

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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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Mind the Product

MAY 29, 2018

His startup career includes Tumbleweed, Timestamp, WildPackets, inCode, and many others. Christina has helped to grow companies like LinkedIn, Yahoo, Zynga, and the New York Times, as well as numerous startups throughout Silicon Valley. He has experienced IPO, acquisition, rapid growth, and crushing failure. Get your tickets.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 14, 2019

Since 2014, the company has been a trusted partner for more than 50 startups and global brands like Pepsi, Vimeo, Barbarian, etc. A B2B ranking platform App Development Companies has recognized Sidebench as one of the top 10 app development companies for startups. DCFS (foster care), American Heart Association, and many more.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 8, 2019

“In early startup life, it’s great to have remote folks who are around the world for the follow-the-sun model” I became one of the first support people at Twitter, working part-time, remotely, from New Zealand. This was 2008, and by the time I left, I think there were 3,000 employees.

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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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Sachin Rekhi

JANUARY 25, 2009

This very simple statement serves as a guiding principle for a startup, helping to focus it on this core goal early on: to ensure that its product provides compelling value to its target audience. It also de-emphasizes many secondary issues that, while important, are not likely to be an early cause of failure for a startup.

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Sachin Rekhi

JANUARY 7, 2009

2008 was definitely a year of open platforms with the continued growth of the Facebook and OpenSocial communities, the unveiling of the iPhone and Android app stores, and the countless Twitter clients and mashups. Cloud Platforms: Amazon Web Services, Google App Engine, Windows Azure. Got your own thoughts on an underhyped platform?

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svpg

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

So when Microsoft released the most "full-featured word processor ever for the Mac" that crawled on their Macs -- we're talking literally two minutes to startup-- the community immediately started posting in newsgroups that Microsoft was actually trying to "kill the Mac.". The title is not important; the work they do is.

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All About Product Management

DECEMBER 10, 2008

Lessons from a Silicon Valley Innovator by Rich Mironov This book compiles some of Rich's most popular columns from 2002 to 2008. Rich Mironov is a software product strategist and veteran of four high-tech startups. Collected into a single volume, it paints a picture of a typical interrupt-driven day.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

With any hot topic in the startup world, it’s helpful to start by establishing terms. Adam: Box was quite large at the time it made this transition, but for a smaller startup, looking around the corner, how do they know that they’re both a good fit, and ready for a platform play? Ceci Stallsmith on how to define a platform.

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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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Amplitude

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

When I was working for the first time in a pre-market startup back in 2008, we had some team members, trained in academia, who would seek the beautiful, perfect solution, over the pragmatic, good enough ones. That startup didn’t survive. Ah, the perennial question. And you know what?

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BrainMates

APRIL 2, 2019

As early as 2008, Marty Cagan wrote: “In a very real sense, every product manager is in the risk management business. At some point in this process, the Product Manager has to make a calculated risk, to choose which opportunity to pursue, to choose which features to add, which bugs to fix, to make trade-offs.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 19, 2009

Despite the over 200 music startups that launched in 2008 , I am disappointed with the lack of startup innovation in the space. When developing a startup, figuring out a viable business model is as important as producing a compelling product.

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Mironov Consulting

AUGUST 7, 2018

He has worked for a wide variety of companies, ranging in size from Fortune 500 status to growth-stage startups. Rich Mironov – A seasoned tech executive and serial entrepreneur, Rich has been the “product guy” at six startups including as CEO and VP Product Management.

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Brian Balfour

JULY 5, 2017

In 2008 I co-founded a company called Viximo. I remember sitting in one of our first board meetings saying something similar to: This probably seems like a reasonable statement to many (I hear it all the time in startup pitches), but there’s one serious problem with it. There are two primary ways that the market changes for a startup.

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Business of Software Conference

MAY 10, 2024

I organised a small dinner for Cambridge entrepreneurs in 2008 where Jack was one of the invitees. My favourite use case was using them as the prize for a team challenge at Business of Software Conference USA 2012 where we had pre-installed a startup disk on each device. He was a one off. Mad and off the wall.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 6, 2020

Facebook emerged stronger from the 2008 recession. I’ve been a proponent of GIST ever since I started using it at Google, and over the years have helped numerous companies, from startups to corporations, implement it. Think of GIST as a pragmatic, actionable framework to introduce Lean and Agile principles across your organization.

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The Accidental Product Manager

MARCH 16, 2020

This increase is despite the face that the market is facing new competition from sources such as Airbnb and other startups. This is exactly what they did back in 2008 when the financial crisis hit. The good news about the furnished-rental housing market is that it has been growing. Over the past decade there has been new demand.

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Userpilot

JULY 28, 2023

First popularised by Eris Reis in the seminal book ‘The Lean Startup’, the idea is to quickly validate a product idea by providing something that can be used by early adopters – who can then provide valuable feedback for future product development. . #7 Many startups have used this model to get off the ground.

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