Lenny Rachitsky

APRIL 11, 2024

Prior to Dropbox, Todd led product management for Twitter’s Content and Discovery teams after selling his startup, Cover, to Twitter in 2014. Before moving into venture capital, he played a crucial role as VP of Product and Design at Dropbox, guiding the company until its IPO in 2018.

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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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Lenny Rachitsky

MAY 14, 2024

In part one , I shared the largest-ever data set of startup pivots. ” —Aaron Levie, co-founder and CEO Discord: “We soft-launched Fates Forever in the fall of 2013 and, after months of testing, had a hunch it wasn’t going to be a hit, but we released it anyway in the spring of 2014 to confirm.

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Despite the flourishing landscape of fintech startups in recent years, competing against established giants in the banking sector remains a formidable challenge.

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Business of Software Conference

APRIL 7, 2021

Joel Gascoigne speaking at BoS USA 2014. 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. He is focused on the lean startup approach, user happiness, transparency, and company culture. A decade of transitions and decisions.

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The Review by First Round

JUNE 17, 2021

Today’s episode is with Waseem Daher, co-founder and CEO of Pilot, a company that specializes in bookkeeping, tax prep, and CFO services for high-growth startups. Product pros also won’t want to miss learning from Waseem’s playbook honed over the course of building three companies. You can follow Waseem on Twitter at @waseem.

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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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UX Studio

DECEMBER 14, 2023

2014: Product design course As knowledge sharing was a driving force across the team from the early days, we started our Product Design course early on. We facilitated 13 courses in a row, one in each semester starting in 2014 Autumn, up until the Pandemic interrupted our nice sequence in 2020.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 14, 2019

S-PRO Headquarters: Kyiv, Ukraine Founded in: 2014 Employees: 150+ Minimum project size: $25 000 Hourly rates: $25–49 Contact details: hi@s-pro.io Since 2014, the company has been a trusted partner for more than 50 startups and global brands like Pepsi, Vimeo, Barbarian, etc.

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Innovatemap

JANUARY 26, 2021

The agency serves high-growth SaaS startups and scaleups through excellence in product management, product marketing, product design, and brand. The growth is in direct correlation to the accelerated trend of startups and scaleups investing in a stronger digital presence for their brand and for product-led growth strategies.

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The Accidental Product Manager

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

So way back in 2014, the folks over at Facebook shelled out US$22B to buy the startup app maker WhatsApp. Its popularity made it an attractive investment opportunity for Facebook who purchased the company in 2014 for a great deal of money. This is why Facebook was willing to spend $22B to purchase the company in 2014.

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freshtrax

AUGUST 6, 2019

From internship to startup. Before btrax Japan opened, a few eager Japanese entrepreneurs and students joined btrax in San Francisco to gain experience working for a startup in Silicon Valley. btrax has organized multiple startup events since 2010 including Japan Night and Asian Night to foster entrepreneurs from overseas.

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ProductBoard

OCTOBER 13, 2020

We set our original values back in 2014, when Productboard was just starting its journey as a tiny startup. They are the principles that underpin our processes, shape our culture, and help us pursue our collective mission in the right way. A lot has changed since those early days. Just this year alone, we’ve doubled our.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Let’s consider the benefits of MVP development : MVPs Allow Businesses to Test Ideas In Markets In 2014, Hailo mobile app for calling a taxi failed. MVPs Save Time And Money In 2022, the Protonn business startup platform closed after 6 months of operation.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 3, 2023

By understanding the basics of Scrum and how it works in practice, you can get started on your own Agile journey as a product manager. Citations: Schwaber, K. Scrum guide. Sutherland, J. Scrum: The art of doing twice the work in half the time. Crown Business. You can also check out this course on Coursera to learn more about the Agile process.

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Gainsight

APRIL 12, 2023

Mistake #2: On the other hand … not betting on the team that got me there “Everything will be fine once we get a new head of [X]” – every startup CEO ever (also me, frequently) When you launch a company, the initial team is usually whoever you can get. To run a startup, you have to make bets. Teammates and clients will leave.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 2, 2024

That’s why product leaders like Stefan Röse of the insights automation startup Quantilope focus on providing researchers with high-quality data as quickly as possible. Stefan Röse Stefan is the Senior Director, Strategic Accounts EMEA at Quantilope, a German-founded company established in 2014.

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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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Innovatemap

JANUARY 26, 2022

The city has a concentration of DTC and B2C startups and scale-ups with product needs. The advantage a founder has when working with us is that they get a team of product experts who have experience with hundreds of startups and scaleups. It’s experience that individual product hires won’t typically have.

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Sachin Rekhi

JANUARY 22, 2019

I've had the opportunity to mentor a breadth of product managers through the years as well as entrepreneurs through my work as an advisor to early-stage startups. And in doing so I've spent countless hours working through product challenges, startup challenges, and everything in between. I noticed it as soon as you walked in.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Inspired by Andreessen’s maxim, in 2014 Benedict Evans coined the phrase “ Mobile is eating the world ,” which in retrospect feels like it downplayed just how much our daily lives have become consumed by our smartphones. . It is very possible that no other company has done as much to shape our decade as Jeff Bezos’s behemoth. Rise of mobile.

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The Basics of Product Management

JULY 12, 2020

Roposo was launched in 2014 and has seen a steady growth in popularity since then. This app has also been around since 2014. Every change in the startup or app ecosystem acts as a catalyst for new innovation. Google Play Review Count – ?842,980. Google Play Rating – 4.2. Apple App Store Review Count – 141,886.

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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 Review by First Round

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Bill started at Amazon in 1999, and went on to launch and run the Prime Video, Amazon Studios, and Amazon Music businesses before he left the company in 2014. Bill started at Amazon in 1999, and went on to launch and run the Prime Video, Amazon Studios, and Amazon Music businesses before he left the company in 2014.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Product School was founded in 2014, from a small coworking space in San Francisco. 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. The global product community started getting the recognition it deserved.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Several recognitions, including The Economic Times Startup Award as the 2021 Bootstrap Champ. In 2013/2014, the company began scaling rapidly and moved to India to accelerate its growth. “By 2013/2014, I realized there’s a big opportunity in this industry. 2,000+ customers. 5 products. Presently, Kovai.co

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 23, 2023

One more inspiring example of purpose in product In the dynamic world of tech startups, Tiny Speck, the company behind a game called Glitch, found themselves struggling with their product’s lackluster performance. Their commitment to their purpose paid off; upon its launch in 2014, Slack was quickly embraced by teams around the globe.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Fewer than 10% of startups survive and grow into large companies and, for every time growth is done right, there are 100 ways it could have been done wrong. I worked with a hyper-funded startup that grew too fast too soon, fixating on “fundable” metrics, and eventually had to be sold off. This learning did not come cheap.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 20, 2018

As Intercom’s customer base moved upmarket, it became increasingly obvious to us in Sales that what worked well in our product for early-stage startups didn’t for larger companies. To fix it, we had to change how we worked with our product team.

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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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Mind the Product

JULY 1, 2019

Often, startups like to say “there is no competition”, but it is rarely true in practice – customers almost always have a credible alternative (even if it’s “do nothing”). <What’s If your product disappeared tomorrow, what would your customers use to fill the gap? Generating Additional Questions.

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Business of Software Conference

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Shopify Plus was launched in 2014 to offer large & hypergrowth businesses a customizable enterprise platform without the cost of existing options. I can’t help thinking this is a way of experimenting in the greatest tradition of the Lean Startup. Breaking Into Enterprise Customers at Shopify. What do they want?

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Mixpanel

JUNE 3, 2019

In the last five years alone, we’ve seen 150 unicorns claim their place, compared to the 39 unicorns founded in the prior decade (2004-2014). The rapidity of startups reaching this status that was supposed to be rare is just one of many trends pointing to an increase in the speed of growth and innovation.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 8, 2019

“In early startup life, it’s great to have remote folks who are around the world for the follow-the-sun model” I became one of the first support people at Twitter, working part-time, remotely, from New Zealand. From Twitter, I ended up going to Slack in 2014, about six months after it launched.

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Innovatemap

JUNE 9, 2022

So, in 2014 we set up shop in the Speakeasy , a Broad Ripple co-working space for remote workers, freelancers, and startups. At surface level, it gave the founding team a physical place to go to work every day, and for a business in startup mode, that’s a huge step.

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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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Andrew Chen

JANUARY 9, 2020

Fascinating discussion about what it’s like for a serial entrepreneur to raise money, operate a startup, lessons learned, etc. Why startups are hard – the math of venture capital tells the story. Why startups are hard – the math of venture capital tells the story. Is your startup idea already taken?

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