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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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. Before that, I was at Palantir and at a few startups doing various things. The rush of a startup. Liam: How did you find the startup experience or the startup life? Liam: For sure.

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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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The Product Cafe

MARCH 22, 2023

💜 Welcome to this week's edition of Product Café, your weekly cup of coffee for everything product management, startups, and more. Hello, all you product-loving folks! ☕ Thanks for reading ProductCafé Newsletter ☕️! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.

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Sachin Rekhi

JANUARY 5, 2009

Over the past year I've had the opportunity to work with a variety of music startups. Not only with the two music startups I've been directly involved with ( Anywhere.FM and imeem ), but also countless music startups looking to leverage the imeem Media Platform APIs I manage at imeem. Music Gaming. Rock Legends! Topspin Media.

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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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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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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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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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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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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.

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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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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UX Studio: Product Management

JULY 9, 2021

We work with companies of any size from many industries: Growing startups to well-known companies such as HBO, Google, Netflix, or the United Nations World Food Programme. Super User Studio was founded in 2008 by two professionals with previous experience working in the digital field. Super User Studio.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Customers could churn due to one of the following reasons: Product-market fit failure: This is one of the biggest reasons for churn and something that most startups deal with. Users want SaaS products that are as intuitive as possible; no one wants to struggle to use a piece of software as if they’re living in 2008.

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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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Crafty CTO

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Herter’s, The Business In 1937, George Herter launched his disruptive startup—a mail-order outdoor-sports business—in the spare rooms over his father’s Waseca, Minnesota dry goods store. So, yes, a disruptive startup it was. Disruptive? In 1937, mail order was as innovative and disruptive as e-commerce in 1999.

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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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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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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

The first edition of Inspired was hugely successful when it was published in 2008. When revisiting the book for a second edition, you thought you’d only need to modify 10–20 per cent of the content but realised it needed a complete rewrite. For two reasons.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

It precisely describes the core of the concept and partly explains the startup curve model. After that, the startup is pushed to get outside the building and understand the necessity of real customer feedback management for product managers who try to improve the product. They keep the whole process secret, which is a big mistake?

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Andrew Chen

AUGUST 8, 2022

It seems as though every consumer app has implemented some form of a referral program, though I argue it really kicked off in ~2008, which is when Dropbox’s innovative referral program was rolled out. Why did this make sense for them?

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 4, 2019

The original Peek Pronto designed solely for email was refreshing and innovative when it came to market in 2008. John Carreyrou, Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup What can we learn? Twitter Peek by Peek A $200 portable device designed solely for Twitter. Someone is going to get killed.”

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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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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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Nulab

JULY 18, 2019

Are companies simply getting bigger, or are startups continuously sprouting and sticking around? While a lack of experience and issues bringing in capital are sure to bring down a business, they are not the only reasons that startups fail. However, each of these states has a substantial amount of startups. by the 24th year.

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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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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

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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UX Studio: Product Management

JULY 12, 2021

Based on their Clutch profile, their partners are mainly startups or mid-sized companies, who are ready to spend an hourly fee starting from $150 with a minimum project size of $10,000. Neuralab is a design agency, founded in 2008 in Zagreb, Croatia. An eCommerce web design company turning ideas into products people use and love.

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