Centercode

JANUARY 26, 2023

We’re excited to announce our partnership with Cincinnati’s nationally-ranked startup accelerator The Brandery. Centercode will be providing beta management software and guidance to The Brandery’s 2012 class of 11 promising startups as they beta test their first products.

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Business of Software Conference

MAY 10, 2024

A Success Disaster Fast forward 5 years to 2012. My favourite use case was using them as the prize for a team challenge at Business of Software Conference USA 2012 where we had pre-installed a startup disk on each device. The Raspberry Pi has just been launched to enormous excitement and I bumped into Jack in Cambridge.

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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 its inception in 2012 in Warsaw, Explain Ninja has shipped more than 700 projects for clients worldwide. The 2D animation may help you do it more effectively.

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Lenny Rachitsky

DECEMBER 27, 2023

She is a founding member of All Raise, the nonprofit organization working to accelerate the success of women in the venture-capital and VC-backed startup ecosystem. She joined Pinterest in 2012 as their first PM and launched their first search and recommendations features. Before Benchmark, Sarah was a partner at Greylock Partners.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 29, 2020

2012: Google Chrome overtakes Internet Explorer as the most used web browser ?? 2012: SpaceX’s Dragon became the first private commercial spacecraft to reach the International Space Station ?? Some have already pledged a complete shift to remote-first, and it’s something that many new startups will consider as a cost-cutting effort.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 9, 2020

Since its establishment in 2013, it has been providing best-in-class website development, web app development, and mobile app development services for startups, small businesses, and enterprises worldwide. Since 2004, the company has delivered services for startups and already world-famous brands.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

In 2012 we wanted to connect all those communities and share even bigger lessons, so we started a conference in London. Mind the Product started with a simple premise – that by coming together as a community we can all learn from each other, become better product managers, and improve our craft.

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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. His 2011 book, The Lean Startup , has become a New York Times best seller, selling millions of copies to aspirational entrepreneurs. Origin of Lean Thinking. Thiel starts by sharing the origin story of lean thinking.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 1, 2024

Our first book was Corporate Explorer: How Corporations Beat Startups at Innovation. This sounds outrageous, but although it is challenging for corporations to innovate and get into a market ahead of a startup, it does happen far more often than we realize. Nobody listened to him, so he left and went to a startup.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 14, 2019

The Sneakers Agency Headquarters: New York, USA Founded in: 2012 Employees: 49 Minimum project size: $25 000 Hourly rates: $100–149 Contact details: info@sneakersagency.com The Sneakers Agency has been listed as a top financial software developer, according to GoodFirms.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The messaging feature “Slack” quickly became more successful than the game, and Glitch was cut in 2012. Odeo was a small podcasting startup in 2005. Tiny Spec also worked on an internal communication tool and eventually made it available to outside users. Eight years later, Slack was sold to Salesforce for over USD 27 billion.

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Userpilot

MAY 1, 2024

Renowned for his tenure on Airbnb’s product team, Lenny’s professional journey truly began in 2010 when he served as the CEO of a budding startup named “Localmind.” “Localmind” experienced steady growth until Airbnb made an acquisition offer in 2012, which Lenny accepted.

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NextBigWhat

JUNE 27, 2021

If you’re a SaaS founder, you need to study Notion The growth strategies used become a $2B startup and reach 1M users after a single seed round A thread 1) Notion was founded in 2012 by Ivan Zhao. Since it’s re-launch in 2018 it’s been the fastest growing platform for teams and individuals.

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Modus Create

MARCH 14, 2023

Around 2012, Hasbro’s CEO Brian Goldner realized it was time for a change. Its stock went from $38 at the end of 2012 to $120 in seven years. In 2019, Mcdonald’s acquired two AI startups — Dynamic Yield and Apprente, specializing in voice technology. The results were incredible.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Nilan also advises a number of early-stage startups. Nicholas also plays a role in evolving tech, as an advisor to a number of promising startups. He is also mentors startups in a number of accelerators in Europe, giving him a chance to help out entrepreneurs while keeping up-to-date with market developments.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 16, 2020

While I was living and working in London in 2012, I noticed a recurring problem with paying back friends after a social activity. However, I quickly discovered that there’s too much brand risk for a trusted bank to take this type of lean startup approach.

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Business of Software Conference

APRIL 7, 2021

You will learn about coping with life as a startup founder in the early days, navigating the scale-up years, and how Joel dealt with burnout and stress. With a goal of building a transparent, remote-first company, Joel and Buffer have experienced the gamut of startup and growth company challenges and successes. What you will learn.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Alex Delivet , one of the protagonists of the Paris startup scene, has experienced this predicament first-hand. While in the early 2010s, the SaaS startup scene in France was not as developed as in the U.S., today there are plenty of VC firms, startup incubators, and events for entrepreneurs. And so I made lots of mistakes.

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Lenny Rachitsky

MAY 14, 2024

In part one , I shared the largest-ever data set of startup pivots. It might have been a neat project for a half-dozen people if we had spent a million dollars to get there, but by the end of 2012, there were 45 people working on it, we had spent many millions of dollars, and it just wasn’t ever going to scale.

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The Review by First Round

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Here at First Round, we first came to know Dave when we invested in Upstart’s seed round back in 2012, and we’ve found him to be one of the most tenacious and focused founders we’ve ever backed. In today’s conversation, Dave gives us an inside look at how the business was built and what other startups can learn from its early days.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Too often, startup founders spend time hoping for a miracle. In her 2012 BoS Talk, ‘How to negotiate the Long, Slow, SaaS Ramp of Death’, Goodman lays out the most common hurdles software founders face and how to overcome them. But that’s not the reality for most software entrepreneurs.

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Product Management Unpacked

JANUARY 28, 2019

In 2012, she became President and CEO of Yahoo, where she doubled the search engine’s stock price, recharged the brand, had a baby, and topped Fortune’s “40 Under 40” list in her first year. She is one of only a handful of African-American women ever to raise more than $1 million to grow a startup.

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Mind the Product

MAY 25, 2018

In 2012, when I was working as part of the JustGiving team responsible for innovative products and disruptive business models, we decided to test how people could raise money for non-charitable good causes. 2012 – the Inception. The MVP in 2012 (and the world’s first fully responsive crowdfunding website).

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NextBigWhat

OCTOBER 23, 2021

Of all the startups that launched in the last few months, I believe Clubhouse is the one that’s most disruptive and most irrelevant (now). People who are at max 2-3 years senior in the career/startup/life ladder and the ones with whom you wanted to network – you don’t talk to them on Clubhouse. What’s up with Clubhouse? Your community.

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 22, 2020

Jake joined the team at Google Ventures in 2012, and we started running Design Sprints. Like a startup incubator, we wanted to help startups prove the validity of their business model quickly. Like everyone else, startups struggle to focus their time. Like everyone else, startups struggle to focus their time.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 2, 2021

He’s co-founder/CEO of his fourth startup, Thread. million customers before being acquired in 2012. Kieran is probably a serial entrepreneur – he founded his first business aged 15, (sold age 19 for $1.25m), his second and third were also acquired. He’s a member of the Forbes, Drapers and Financial Times 30 Under 30 lists. Video below.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 10, 2018

Then, when I began using Lean Startup techniques in my role in 2012, Chris encouraged me to start a class on Skillshare to teach others. After learning more about my domain, I became influenced by adjacent areas like Agile, Lean, Lean UX, and Lean Startup. He inspired me to try new things and learn as much as I could.

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Generation Focus

OCTOBER 31, 2017

A/B testing is a crucial element in any startup foundation. For example, in 2012, a Microsoft employee working on Bing came up with an idea for how to display ad headlines. For startups, every penny counts, even if you’ve secured your VC funding. Even the big dogs on the block use it.

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The Product HQ

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

He worked on projects with MetaLab on the side starting in 2012 and officially joined the team in 2015 where his formal title is Project Manager, which at MetaLab includes product management as a focus. He’s worked on and launched products for Fortune 10 companies and startups. What design principles did they fight for?

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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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Mixpanel

JANUARY 13, 2021

In 2012, we launched a Messages & Experiments add-on (called “Engage” at the time), to make it simple to send emails, push notifications, and A/B tests to users based on their actions. Since the early days of Mixpanel, customers have relied on the product to understand their users’ behaviors and needs.

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Business of Software Conference

DECEMBER 14, 2023

As Gail Goodman said in her 2012 BoS talk, ‘ The Long, Slow SaaS Ramp of Death ’, these are all just mirages along the pathway to software company profitability. Here’s the analogy: None of those things are going to make or break the startup either’, he explains. Your startup will be stronger for it in the long run.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

The story of how I landed my first product role is far from trailblazing: I started with my old company in 2012 as a business analyst when my boss decided that we needed “one of these product managers”. I also always recommend reading Marty Cagan’s Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love to see how top product companies work.

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The Product HQ

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

He worked on projects with MetaLab on the side starting in 2012 and officially joined the team in 2015 where his formal title is Project Manager, which at MetaLab includes product management as a focus. He’s worked on and launched products for Fortune 10 companies and startups. What design principles did they fight for?

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UX Studio: Product Management

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Our journey has led us to partner with startups and enterprises in more than 250 projects worldwide. The digital design company has collaborated with tech startups, software development companies, and various businesses and brands to bring ideas to life. They also provide custom artwork through illustration and engaging motion design.

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Gainsight

JULY 11, 2023

A few years later, in 2012, my company was acquired by SPS Commerce (NASDAQ SPSC), and as part of that acquisition, I joined their leadership team. Within several months, I noticed they had the same problem I had in my startup but at a significantly greater scale and cost. Neither were viable solutions for us.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

The story of how I landed my first product role is far from trailblazing: I started with my old company in 2012 as a business analyst when my boss decided that we needed “one of these product managers”. I also always recommend reading Marty Cagan’s Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love to see how top product companies work.

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