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Collection, Analysis, Action: A Beginner’s Guide to the Product Stack

Mixpanel

In 2005, fresh off of an IPO the previous year, Google analyzed how it could invest its war chest in a forward-looking manner. The power of free—and what is actually a really good tool—meant that, for many years, Google Analytics was the only name in town for those who didn’t have an enterprise-level analytics budgets.

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Norman Crowley on uncovering the business opportunities in tackling climate change

Intercom, Inc.

We got the idea from about 2005, a friend of mine became obsessed with climate change. Dee: Your website boasts some serious logos, you’ve got General Electric, Johnson & Johnson, Intel, and that’s just to name but a few. And we sold that to Rupert Murdoch in 2011 for about 80 million bucks. that’s our website.

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Web or app Development – Which is Better?

Mind the Product

A domain name and a website for your brand is a good start, but not enough. And beyond the lock screen, for instance, in WhatsApp, you can rely on the smart notifications response function to reply to an incoming message without launching the app. So, which platform should you adopt for a new digital service, mobile app or the web?

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Japanese Emoji Meanings: How the Correct Use Can Lead to Successful Marketing

freshtrax

But with over 3,000 emoji characters in the Unicode Standard to choose from, how do you know you’re choosing the right one to support your messaging? This emoji actually means: Name badge or name tag. Kindergarteners wear this tulip-shaped name badge to show their name, class, and, sometimes, a phone number.

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

Andrew Chen

Even the names of services can vary: what one home cleaning service calls a “deep clean” can be different from another provider’s definition. Angie’s List, a home services site founded in 2005, carves off Craigslist’s household services category.

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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?

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Seeing Around Corners | Rita McGrath | BoS USA 2019

Business of Software Conference

When Sears and Kmart merged in 2005. So, Eddie Lampert bought into Sears I think in 2005. Now the other interesting thing about Eddie Lampert story is there were other players in the areas served by a company like Sears namely Home Depot, Lowe’s Sears was a big provider to home hobbyists. Lampert rarely speaks publicly.