Sachin Rekhi

DECEMBER 31, 2009

It has been exactly a year since I started this blog, as it was one of my new year's resolutions for 2009. While it's far from where I'd like to be with blogging, 2009 was a solid start. Here's a look back at the highlights: Top Five Posts from 2009 (by pageviews). My Muses for Brainstorming Startup Ideas.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 31, 2019

When Apple started using the catchphrase “There’s an app for that” in 2009 to convey the breadth and variety of apps available in its App Store, we could barely begin to picture just how true that would become – well over half the time spent online in the US is spent on smartphone apps. . And then there’s messaging.

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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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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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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 22, 2022

Through innovative, attractive, and user-friendly webflow websites, they support startups, tech firms, and sustainable businesses. Thus startups, small businesses, and entrepreneurs can make the modifications themselves on their websites. . A results-focused web design company established in 2009, Yeovil, UK. . Web Choice.

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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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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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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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The Product Cafe

MARCH 22, 2023

💜 Welcome to this week's edition of Product Café, your weekly cup of coffee for everything product management, startups, and more. Following which, to adapt to the recession wave they pivoted to a freemium model in 2009. Hello, all you product-loving folks! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.

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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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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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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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UX Studio: Product Management

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Our clients are growing startups and established brands like HBO, Google, Netflix, or Wizz air. Moreover, the company also helps creative minds build strong businesses by investing in startups. Based in Ottawa, the company works with startups and enterprises from all over the world. Fuzzy Math.

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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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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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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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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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Crafty CTO

OCTOBER 17, 2023

My father passed away in 2009, but his imprint is still palpable there on the lake—nowhere more strongly than on the bookshelves. So, yes, a disruptive startup it was. I was fortunate to be able to spend three weeks at the family lake house in northwestern Michigan in August. John’s an amazing, intuitive, creative cook.

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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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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 15, 2009

The great news is there are a variety of startups out there waiting to help you! Beyond these existing startups, there are still additional opportunities for startups to build tools to help support the virtual currency ecosystem. I expect in 2009 we will see continued growth throughout the virtual currency ecosystem.

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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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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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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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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 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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Nulab

JULY 18, 2019

Are companies simply getting bigger, or are startups continuously sprouting and sticking around? While a lack of experience and issues bringing in capital are sure to bring down a business, they are not the only reasons that startups fail. However, each of these states has a substantial amount of startups. by the 24th year.

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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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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?” It’s been an arduous one, and we wanted to share what we learned along the way.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

The author Brian Author defines technological innovation in his book “The Nature of Technology”, 2009, as the improvement to existing technologies, the creation of new ones or the act of performing old functions with fundamentally new building blocks. What really matters is what the product can do for us. What about technological innovation?

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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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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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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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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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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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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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