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Coronavirus Business Impact: A Startup Disaster or a Big Opportunity to Innovate

The Product Coalition

How many startups will survive the COVID-19 economic crisis ? Startups that have started producing their products in China are at risk of experiencing considerable damages or disappear at all. Consequently, it may cause a slight decrease in investing startups and initiatives pitched by medium-sized companies.

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Top 10 Japanese Startups

freshtrax

This makes it a hot spot for startups in Japan because of how much potential there is to grow there. These investments stimulate entrepreneurship in Japan causing the Japanese startup scene to be hotter than ever before. Curious to know which innovative startups are successful in Japan? Related article? Market Capitalization.

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Matt LeMay: A Conversation About Clarity

Mind the Product

Start With Specifics, not the Vision. There’s always a wish to start with vision, but that to me is dangerously unconstrained, and unbounded. The most meaningful misalignments are just as likely to emerge from the way the product vision is communicated as they are from the vision itself. Clarity Over Comfort.

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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. We’ve arrived at this moment due to the collective vision, effort, and trust of each and every employee, customer, and partner we’ve been lucky enough to have on our team.

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What’s next for marketplace startups? Reinventing the $10 trillion service economy, that’s what.

Andrew Chen

Is there still room for marketplace startups to innovate? Am excited to share a vision on the past and future of the service economy, in a collaboration by my a16z colleague Li Jin. The “Uber for X” Era (2009-). [Dear readers, this essay is on the future of marketplaces. We answer, emphatically, yes!

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The Evolution of WhatsApp

The Product Coalition

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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Why We Fail: What I Learned From 5 Years with Friends, Netflix’s Social Strategy

Mind the Product

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.