Lenny Rachitsky

APRIL 18, 2024

Prior to YC, he was the co-founder and CEO of imeem (acquired by MySpace in 2009) and the co-founder and CEO of App.net. They possess an unwavering conviction in their startup’s potential, even in the face of daunting obstacles. Refusing to accept failure, they persuade others of their inevitable success.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 25, 2020

Today, businesses starting from small startups to large enterprises create 2D animated commercials and explainer videos to boost their marketing campaigns. Since 2009, the company has served many SMBs, startups, and big businesses with a single purpose?—?to The 2D animation may help you do it more effectively.

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bpma ProductHub

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Keith has spent the last 15 years helping grow Boston’s vibrant technology and startup communities. Keith later founded VentureFizz in 2009 to tell the stories of Boston’s successful leaders and fast-growing organizations, and help people make connections through the VentureFizz Job Board.

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bpma ProductHub

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Keith has spent the last 15 years helping grow Boston’s vibrant technology and startup communities. Keith later founded VentureFizz in 2009 to tell the stories of Boston’s successful leaders and fast-growing organizations, and help people make connections through the VentureFizz Job Board.

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Andrew Chen

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Is there still room for marketplace startups to innovate? Marketplace startups have done incredibly well over the first few decades of the internet, reinventing the way we shop for goods, but have been less successful services. The “Uber for X” Era (2009-). [Dear readers, this essay is on the future of marketplaces.

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Mixpanel

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

In 2009, when Mixpanel was founded, the world was in a period of uncertainty and still facing the Great Recession. Some of the most innovating companies, including fast-growing startups, as well as household enterprise companies who are undergoing digital transformation, have chosen Mixpanel to help them grow.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 4, 2024

The Beginning: Redefining Communication WhatsApp’s journey began in 2009 when two former Yahoo employees, Brian Acton and Jan Koum , envisioned a platform that would provide a simple and reliable way for people to stay connected. On February 24, 2009, Koum completed the development of the iOS application and established “WhatsApp Inc.”

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Mind the Product

APRIL 27, 2018

Josh refers to a quote by Eric Ries: “The unit of progress for lean startups is validated learning.” It caught on among other users, and in 2009 Twitter added official support to the hashtag. So, during a startup sprint once the client engagement had ended, Neo explored the idea. The client, however, wasn’t interested.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

When his band broke up in 2009, Matt decided he should work in a different industry, one where he could make a living. He comments: “There is a shorter distance for messages to travel in a startup, but each step of the journey looks largely the same. So much of our communication is driven by basic human emotion and habit.”.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 21, 2018

Whether you’re at an early-stage startup that’s just made its first sales hires, or part of a fast-moving sales team in a large organization, the key to success often comes down to efficiency. But I couldn’t raise the money for the startup; this was 2009, right after the recession. Starting sales from scratch.

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Userpilot

MARCH 7, 2024

So I talked to several female leaders in SaaS – about their experience with breaking into leadership positions in tech startups – what challenges they’ve faced, and how they managed to overcome them. Sima Banijamali : “I started in tech in 2009, and in 2010 I moved to Sweden from Iran and started studying. Melissa : “I did.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

In 2009, Jake and his team decided they wanted to change this so they could prototype a product more effectively, to test demand and help them make better decisions. Startups move from Idea to Launch in much more iterative fashion than other businesses. At Google in 2007, the same thing was happening. Design Sprints are Born.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Affiliate programs are sometimes liberating to be a part of; therefore, you don’t have to be compelled to worry about high startup prices. It wasn’t till 2009 that illustrious affiliate vendor Pat Flynn stony-broke down the various sorts of affiliate marketers into 3 teams. Affiliates perpetually carry a small amount of mystery?

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 4, 2018

I often highlight that half of Netflix’s high-level product strategies fail in order to help product leaders to understand how hard it is to launch and grow startups. In 2009, we faced a revolt when we removed Profiles, a feature that allowed members to manage multiple queues, even though only 2% of members used this feature.

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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

JULY 17, 2019

That was where I found myself in 2009?giving Imagine this: You’re sitting in a boardroom across from a major investor. You’ve just finished your pitch, and now you’re sweating a bit, waiting for the response. Sound familiar? giving it my best shot in Birmingham, Alabama, as I asked for a significant influx of capital to back.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 7, 2020

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. Flashback to 2009. Turns out, it was.

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Sachin Rekhi

JANUARY 7, 2009

So here is my list of the top underhyped platforms that I hope to see many entrepreneurs build on in 2009. Mail, with over 250M users , has announced its application platform , launched a few white listed applications (Xoopit, Wordpress), and plans on opening up more broadly in 2009. Webmail Platforms: Yahoo! Mail, Gmail.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 20, 2020

Startups and big businesses all over the globe use explainer videos to introduce their products, services, or tell about their brands creatively. Explain Ninja has become a choice of startups and world-famous brands, such as Pipedrive, Codio, MyTaxi, Swiss Fin Lab, Boostation, Plato, Young Alfred, and plenty of others.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2019

In companies without a design DNA , Jeff recommends creating an “in-house startup,” where a small design team innovates around a challenge and proves its worth by positively impacting customers. We miss the startup days when we could just make decisions more quickly, and we could react in a more nimble fashion’”.

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Melissa Perri

MAY 5, 2016

A Successful Start I learned about Minimum Viable Products like 99% of other Product Managers - through The Lean Startup by Eric Ries. Someone picked up The Lean Startup , had their mind blown, and said “We should do that here!” In the beginning, we talked about this concept as something to validate startup ideas.

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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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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 30, 2018

Both are design partners at GV (launched as Google Ventures in 2009 as the venture capital arm of Alphabet, Inc.), where they help a robust portfolio of startups find their way. I did a little bit of consulting along the way and was also at startup called Wealthfront for a while. I’ve been at GV now for about a year.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 22, 2021

In the startup world, making software user-friendly and easy to use has become a real trend lately. Purrweb’s main goal as a UI/UX design agency is to help startups quickly, but without any loss of quality, create mobile apps, websites, or desktop apps. So, it’s no wonder that they provide a discount to the startups they believe in.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 6, 2020

Fireart Studio has already delivered more than 700 successful projects for startups and global enterprises, like Google, Rolls Royce, Codio, Atlassian, My Taxi, Bolt, and others. hourly rates: $150–199 Employees: 10–49 Founded: 2009 Headquarters: USA Red Foundry is another app development industry leader. Red Foundry Min.

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Sachin Rekhi

DECEMBER 17, 2015

He espoused that the reason so many startups failed was they were too focused on product development without an equal focus on customer development. And yet despite all of this innovation in the startup process, we haven't seen a substantial increase in successful large-scale startup outcomes. So why is that?

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Sachin Rekhi

JANUARY 18, 2010

As many of you know, I spent the better half of 2009 as an Entrepreneur -in- Residence at Trinity Ventures. Given that I've spent most of my entrepreneurial career in scrappy startup environments, I developed a valuable new perspective on evaluating opportunities. Venture Funding is not for Every Startup. Failed Startups.

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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. The team mainly partners with startups or mid-sized companies with a few enterprises in their portfolio.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 17, 2018

Dom & Tom About the agency: Dom & Tom was founded in 2009 by Dominic and Tom Tancredi. Motto: We’re a product agency that helps Fortune 500 companies and next generation startups build the future of digital. The company has more than 250 employees, has been around since 2009, and develops apps for both Android and iOS.

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Sachin Rekhi

MAY 13, 2009

In a departure from my usual focus on startups, I thought I would take a moment to reflect on my most recent experience in jury duty. The murder occurred Nov 4, 2005 and only today on May 13, 2009 was the defendant tried and convicted of murder. And now back to our regularly scheduled startup discussions :) Trial Timeline.

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Sachin Rekhi

JANUARY 16, 2009

We are already starting to see categories of resulting mashups emerging, including startups seeking to innovate on the browsing, personalization, and social aspects of experiencing media. We saw a variety of startups in 2008 evolving the user experience of browsing and consuming media content. Media API Mashups. Browsing Experience.

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Bain Public

JUNE 17, 2020

Over the last year, through ongoing giving to Canadian accelerators, we’ve contributed over 700 hours of pro bono work for young up and coming startups and entrepreneurs. The standout component is our one-on-one time with the startup founders. Running a startup is not easy work.

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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? One of my favorite examples is if you hit flag on a YouTube video back in 2008 or 2009, it would create a row in a spreadsheet on an ops person’s desk. Then I left Google in 2014 to start Coda.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 23, 2018

If you run a startup or a small- to mid-size company, you probably can’t justify hiring a full-time chief financial officer (an oft-cited benchmark for when to hire a full-time CFO is annual sales of at least $10 million, but it can be a lot higher for a low-complexity business).

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

It is a leading programming house providing a comprehensive suite of mobile app development services for startups and global companies since 2009. Swag Soft Swag Soft was featured as a Top App Developer in Singapore for 2019 by AppFutura.

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Sachin Rekhi

DECEMBER 26, 2019

What I came to realize is that this blog had it's humble beginning in 2009, meaning I've now been writing for over a decade! In 2015, I saw a disturbing trend where startups were shunning business plans and launching MVPs instead. This year, as we roll past the end of the decade, I've found myself taking it in as a whole.

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Business of Software Conference

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Cohen starts his presentation by telling a story about how he started blogging in 2009. Here’s the analogy: None of those things are going to make or break the startup either’, he explains. But you’re not an expert in any of those things that you’re going to have to do in a startup. None of them made or broke the blog.

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