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The decade software ate the world

Intercom, Inc.

When Apple started using the catchphrase “There’s an app for that” in 2009 to convey the breadth and variety of apps available in its App Store, we could barely begin to picture just how true that would become – well over half the time spent online in the US is spent on smartphone apps. . And then there’s messaging.

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Winning product analytics

Mixpanel

In 2009, when Mixpanel was founded, the world was in a period of uncertainty and still facing the Great Recession. The data ecosystem looks nothing like it did when we got started in 2009. Amid a bleak outlook, companies like Slack, WhatsApp, and Uber were founded and began to lay the groundwork for orchestrating major paradigm shifts.

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How to be a great product manager during a recession

Product Management Unpacked

The Great Recession (December 2007- June 2009). We are no longer in growth mode, it’s not about competitive differentiation to win new deals; it is about customer retention to keep subscriptions and renewals coming in. The Iran/Energy Crisis Recession: (July 1981 – November 1982). The Great Lockdown (March 2020-?).

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5 Lessons in Designing Physical Products for Software Product Managers

Mind the Product

In 2009, I’d already had 15-year career in the tech industry, mainly as a product manager at software companies like Microsoft and Adobe. Can you make it just as cool and differentiated as your product? But that year, I decided to take the plunge into physical products, launching KOR Water with my partner Eric Barnes.

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GV’s Kate Aronowitz and Vanessa Cho on leading through design

Intercom, Inc.

Both are design partners at GV (launched as Google Ventures in 2009 as the venture capital arm of Alphabet, Inc.), Once we’ve identified that, “Yes, this is the problem that will help differentiate you,” we roll up our sleeves and work with them on the most complex problems to see how we can help them accelerate.

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Best User Retention Tools & Software to Keep More Customers

Userpilot

Here are a few of our tips for screen recording tools: Smartlook is great for differentiating between user views on different devices, OSs and browsers. Is it compatible with the other tools in your stack or are you going to be importing and exporting data to spreadsheets like it’s 1995 – let alone 2009 – all over again?

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Some (spiritual) reflections on my systemic design studies

UX Planet

Design domains (Jones and van Patter, 2009) 1.0 Differentiation has produced science, technology, and the unprecedented power of mankind to build up and to destroy its environment. But the complexity consists of integration as well as differentiation. The following figure illustrates this.