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Salesforce’s Mike Kreaden on how to build a platform to drive growth

Intercom, Inc.

Machine learning can get the right message or recommendation out in a responsive way – not just from the customer’s next best action, but from the sales perspective, too. So in 2005 when we announced the AppExchange, we actually had at that point 70 applications that would then be ready for launch in January.

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What 14 startup investors and advisors taught us about chasing (and finding) product-market fit

Mixpanel

There’s a reason, after all, that Y Combinator chose the slogan “make something people want” shortly after they were founded in 2005. It’s not only the frequency that matters but also the definition of what ‘active’ means: if I’m a Slack user and only read messages but never send any, am I considered active?