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. To help speed up bigger decisions, he now tries as far ahead as he can in terms of vision and where the company is heading. With venture capital implications, it warranted thoughtful consideration.[1].

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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. Thiel describes four specific lessons that Silicon Valley learned from the dot com crash that came to dominate business thinking: Make incremental advances — “Grand visions inflated the bubble, so they should not be indulged.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Up until now, I’ve been avoiding using the word “vision.” And many of you have probably realized that I’m describing “story” in much the same way as one might describe “vision.” Vision, on the other hand, is just a snapshot. ” But to me there is a fundamental difference.

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BrainMates

APRIL 2, 2019

But first, Product Managers need to demonstrate to founders or executives that progress is happening, so that founders can trust that their vision is being nurtured. A Product vision is key to delivering great products. The folks at Aha describe a Product vision as: “ the core essence of its product or product line.

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Mind the Product

JULY 29, 2019

The banking industry changed significantly after the 2008 financial crisis. When developing a product it is important to have key product principles that you believe will ultimately deliver your vision. She discusses the challenges involved in starting a bank and how to succeed in a highly regulated industry.

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

By unpacking Amazon’s product strategy, we endeavored to see whether or not the company stayed true to its core vision and mission when put to the ultimate test. In 2008, millions shifted to billions with $19.1 Amazon’s mission and vision statements guide both the company’s product strategies and business goals. It’s the same.

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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 teamed up with the CTO to create prototypes, which she then used to articulate her vision and get support from key executives and crucial teams. She proposed a new strategy to the BBC “BBC out of home” which became its mobile strategy.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 6, 2020

Created in 2008 as a question and answer site by Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky, it has grown to become one of the primary technology communities on the web, and by far the largest corner of the Stack Exchange Network of sites, which collectively has more than 120 million monthly users.

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Gainsight

JUNE 18, 2020

OneCause, formerly BidPal, revolutionized charitable fundraising with the launch of their mobile bidding solution in 2008, helping nonprofits replace manual giving and raise more revenue through technology. The company had a vision of delivering the cutting-edge technology that its customers were demanding.

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Mind the Product

MAY 29, 2018

Prior to Benchmark, Sarah was a Partner at Greylock Partners, and a Product Lead for search, recommendations, machine vision, and pin quality at Pinterest. At Benchmark, Sarah invests in consumer businesses and the consumerization of IT.

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Userzoom

APRIL 6, 2020

I’ve been working online since 2008, initially in content, but I began to notice that a lot of visitors struggle with using websites, and this sparked my interest in UX research. ” What is your future vision for UX or research within Betsson? Tell us a little bit about your background. How did you get into UX research?

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

The first edition of Inspired was hugely successful when it was published in 2008. Every member of the team understands their purpose and the product vision and is passionate about solving the problems assigned to them in ways that their users and customers love, yet work for their business.” For two reasons.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

“Make sure you have the discipline of being an API-first company” The first thing we did to become a platform company was back in 2008, when we said, let’s open up our APIs to third-parties to integrate with us. And the last thing is just thinking: “What is the vision that you are driving for?

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 24, 2019

It’s now so inexpensive to go to market that having a great tech vision and product isn’t enough. And I remember Marc [Benioff] interviewing me, like he did every employee, and painting the vision for what the platform would be. Can you take us back to the early days of Accelerate and what the original vision was?

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 24, 2019

Vision provides guidance in the gaps, but people need to be empowered to make decisions outside of a specified plan. [15:10] One example of this was the housing crisis in 2008. Vision provides guidance in the gaps, but people need to be empowered to make decisions outside of a specified plan. [15:10]

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Amplitude

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

They have ideas, theories, visions, but they question everything and are always open to changing their minds upon seeing new evidence. ”I Why science? Where is the intersection of art and science when it comes to product management? Holly: I think the best product managers are like scientists. Ah, the perennial question. And you know what?

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Good Product Manager

DECEMBER 4, 2016

Looking back over the past ten years, I’m gratified to see that I’ve been able to follow through on that early vision (and quite frankly pretty surprised at how accurately, too). 1 “spinoff” site: Ask A Good Product Manager (2008-2012) 1 design (in need of an upgrade/overhaul, I know). Nearly 850,000 sessions.

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Good Product Manager

DECEMBER 4, 2016

Looking back over the past ten years, I’m gratified to see that I’ve been able to follow through on that early vision (and quite frankly pretty surprised at how accurately, too). 1 “spinoff” site: Ask A Good Product Manager (2008-2012) 1 design (in need of an upgrade/overhaul, I know). Nearly 850,000 sessions.

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Gainsight

JUNE 23, 2020

My career in events started back in 2008 as a sales associate supporting sponsorship fulfillment. After a week of demos, we found the vendor that would help bring our vision to life. Intellum didn’t back down or get overwhelmed by our big ideas and visions. They were ready to dive in and give us their all.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

It can be as simple as adding an option to increase the text size within your app for those with low vision, or adding subtitles to video/audio content on your website. If your product is aimed at a wide variety of people, it should also be accessible for a wide variety of bodies.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JULY 9, 2021

Super User Studio was founded in 2008 by two professionals with previous experience working in the digital field. The packages include short one-week sprints for defining visions and validating them with quick prototyping and longer packages for research services, branding, or design maturity audits. Super User Studio.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

every organization needs to acquire a holistic understanding of an agile product creation process: A vision leads to a strategy that (probably) results in a portfolio of products (and services). Do you remember the origins of the financial crisis from 2008? To prevail in today’s game of an accelerated innovation-based competition?—?software

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Business of Software Conference

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The usual playbook on Twitter when these deals go down is a flurry of hot takes and congratulations to the founder and team from investors who by law have to include a line that somehow reflects well on the investors foresight, vision or investment thesis – even when they did not invest. I knew exactly where he would be on those dates.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 4, 2019

The developer refused, sticking to his original vision. The original Peek Pronto designed solely for email was refreshing and innovative when it came to market in 2008. He only admitted after the game was universally panned that Spielberg’s idea would probably have been better. What can we learn? Time is everything.

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svpg

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Kate would be the first to credit a pretty amazing team, including some exceptional engineers, and the vision and courage of the founders, but I would argue that without a Kate driving for the technology-based solutions that could actually power this business, there’s a good chance Netflix as we know it never would have happened.

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Product Solving

AUGUST 26, 2020

Until it all came tumbling down in 2008. Go back to your product goals Assuming you have your overall product vision and goals in place, you should be using these to determine priority of removing friction. Each individual person thought they were only impacting themselves. so they thought. Go back to your product goals, 2.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

We are delighted to chat with you about your work at Crowley Carbon and your wider vision for making global companies more sustainable. And that went on to become a monster, I floated it on the London Stock Exchange in 2006, exited it in 2008 for about a half a billion bucks and that brings us up to the latest bunch of companies.

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 3, 2019

And I think that’s because there are less people taking the risk; it’s different than it was in 2008 because there was this opportunity to capture new markets and a lot of opportunity for venture-backed startups to be acquired by Apple, Facebook, Yahoo, Microsoft, etc. I would love to see more new entrepreneurs within the community.

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 3, 2019

And I think that’s because there are less people taking the risk; it’s different than it was in 2008 because there was this opportunity to capture new markets and a lot of opportunity for venture-backed startups to be acquired by Apple, Facebook, Yahoo, Microsoft, etc. I would love to see more new entrepreneurs within the community.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

It is tightly connected with the Lean Startup concept created by Eric Reis in 2008. After reading it, you clearly grasp the vision and main objectives of the company, even if you’re not a person who works there. Create Your Mission Let’s have a look at PayPal’s mission statement?—?“ And that’s exactly what you should be after.

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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 4, 2024

In 2008, the Boomer generation reached an age where there was some decline in preference for beer. We didn’t see ourselves in the economy segment; that didn’t make sense with the vision of a premium perspective. The challenge of product managers is how we translate that PowerPoint vision into reality.

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UX Studio

MARCH 11, 2024

I think it was on the rise because when I started my university in 2008, I never heard about UX or HCI or design. You’re not expected to come up with the whole plan and the vision and the strategy that’s probably being done for you because you’re hired as a junior. Karthik: Yeah. I don’t know.

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Amplitude

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Eight years later, Safi was named the 2008 Biotech/Pharmaceutical Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst & Young. From setting your product vision to prioritizing which features to build next, you’ll need to know how to apply Justin is an expert on all things product-related, from product management to data-informed product decision-making.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 7, 2019

Bruno actually had his first Product Management experience back in 2008. This means, roughly, “I will fulfill my product vision, but I’m not talking to customers”. Bruno’s goal with Product School was to extend his insights beyond immediate concerns; he sought to gain an overall vision of the whole product challenge.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 2, 2019

in Computer Science) in 2008. The mobile team was functioning very much as a product organization where they had a roadmap and delivered features which lined up with the vision of the company. As you might have already come across stories of how people got into product roles, let me highlight that there is no single RIGHT path.

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Business of Software Conference

JANUARY 6, 2020

– NLP (natural language processing) another subset or field the AI there’s a ton more; there’s vision, there’s lots of things being done I won’t try to talk about all of them.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The Origin: A Fun Weekend In 2008 The GitHub saga commenced in 2008 when three men envisioned a platform that would democratize software development and foster collaboration on a global scale. Jacinthe Busson , who runs the site UX Timeline , has compiled a timeline of Github’s website changes from 2008 to the present.

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