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. Test your assumptions, always. Focus on outcomes over output. They say: ‘We miss the old days when we were smaller.

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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. Testing products before you build them? This idea was prime for testing. Someone picked up The Lean Startup , had their mind blown, and said “We should do that here!” What a novel idea!

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 15, 2009

The great news is there are a variety of startups out there waiting to help you! Given that there are already so many different offer providers and more coming, a solution is needed to easily A/B test them to select which work best for your site in each country. So are you thinking about adding a virtual economy to your app or website?

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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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UX Studio: Product Management

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

The company’s core services include software and mobile development, blockchain solutions, testing, and quality assurance. The top projects worth mentioning are OTP bank mobile application testing, Microsoft Sharepoint benchmarking tool development, and mobile application creation for Starbucks Russia. UX studio. .

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UX Planet

APRIL 12, 2024

Typically, and I remember interviewing for these roles in 2009/2010, the hiring manager would typically ask me: would you consider yourself a generalist, or do you specialize in particular field. I personally started using this term for Product Designers, originally when I first worked with Startups (going back to 2014).

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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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The Product Coalition

MAY 6, 2020

The company offers full-cycle app development, including initial market research, UI/UX design, prototyping, development, user testing, launch, and maintenance. 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.

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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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Userpilot

JANUARY 7, 2021

The company exploded in 2009 around the premise of rewarding users points for each new place they visited. As many companies copied their success since the foursquare boom in 2009, silly titles or badges may have lost some of their initial appeal…but onboarding gamification is still all the rage. Wonder why?

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Mixpanel

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Back in 2009, we asked ourselves a question many early stage companies do when they’re trying to figure out what to charge for something that didn’t exist a few hours prior: “What’s an easy-to-measure metric that correlates with our cost?” Event volume didn’t pass the test. Test early. A quick coming of age tale.

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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

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Atari also elected to skip audience testing due to the time constraints, trusting instead that the popularity of the IP and a timely seasonal release would boost sales. Thanks to the success of the original Peek, TwitterPeek was released shortly after in 2009 receiving a much frostier reception. What went wrong?

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UX Studio: Product Management

JANUARY 8, 2021

Ramotion is a small design agency located in San Francisco, USA, that works with growing startups and enterprises. . Since 2009, they have worked with many notable companies such as Netflix, Adobe, Salesforce, Opera, and Avast, just to name a few. The company claims they work with small clients and startups.

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Nulab

JULY 27, 2022

In 2009, two friends founded a company called Airbnb with the aim of providing an alternative to traditional hotel accommodations. Essentially, it’s a pared-back prototype of your product or service, which you create cheaply and test on a small audience. But what about disruptive and radical? What is disruptive innovation?

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Business of Software Conference

MAY 7, 2020

You will learn: how to map the exploration of new business ideas and test them in a simple and practical way. But what intrigued my co-author myself each year is that somehow despite all of the efforts of the tools we build, others build, lean startup, etc it doesn’t seem like companies are getting better at innovation.

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 29, 2020

Finally we’re not going to just look at those solutions and be like ‘that one looks good’, we’re going to run experiments, we’re going to use rapid prototyping, we’re going to test our assumptions, we’re going to look at how do we evaluate these solutions to ensure that we’re pursuing the most valuable one.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Tim Barker has established three startups and has seen the ups and downs of the startup journey, from his first business being acquired by Salesforce – where he spent five years in the formative age of cloud computing – to his current company DataSift being acquired by Meltwater in 2018. Tim Barker, CEO, DataSift.

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 6, 2020

Previously, in 2009, he co-founded Evidity, a healthcare data analytics firm serving the physician market. Don’t quit your job, do it part time and work overnight’, ‘you got to iterate and test’ and ‘lean startup! Lean Startup! Lean Startup!’ Why are we doing this – lean startup! Lean Startup!

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Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 28, 2025

For more: Lennybot | Podcast | Courses | Hiring | Swag Subscribe now Everyone working in product today knows about the Design Sprint—a five-day method for teams to design, prototype, and test new products. The Stockholm solution In January 2009, I took a weeklong business trip to Stockholm. A year and a half went by.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

When to give into demands to demo (“I haven't tested!”) The company was a startup and strapped for cash, enough people, everything.). In 2009, after an inner ear hemorrhage , I have several handicaps: constant vertigo, and single-sided deafness. The design reviews were about the integrity of the product and the code.

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