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

Mixpanel

Depending on your budget, the size of your technical team, and the vision for the future of your data, you can choose the solution that feels the best for you. In 2005, fresh off of an IPO the previous year, Google analyzed how it could invest its war chest in a forward-looking manner. You know it as Google Analytics.

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Norman Crowley on uncovering the business opportunities in tackling climate change

Intercom, Inc.

We are delighted to chat with you about your work at Crowley Carbon and your wider vision for making global companies more sustainable. We got the idea from about 2005, a friend of mine became obsessed with climate change. Not the retiring type. Dee: Hi, Norman. So you are very welcome along to Inside Intercom today.

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

Andrew Chen

Am excited to share a vision on the past and future of the service economy, in a collaboration by my a16z colleague Li Jin. Even the names of services can vary: what one home cleaning service calls a “deep clean” can be different from another provider’s definition. [Dear readers, this essay is on the future of marketplaces.

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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.