The Product Coalition
FEBRUARY 1, 2022
The messaging feature “Slack” quickly became more successful than the game, and Glitch was cut in 2012. Odeo was a small podcasting startup in 2005. It allowed users to call a phone number to leave a message, which automatically created a web-based podcast. A great example is Tiny Spec, a former gaming company.
BrainMates
MARCH 6, 2018
Part of my journey was 6 startups. My recent experience is more with startups, and I tend toward enterprise rather than consumer. I observe, certainly in startups but also in really big companies and everything in between, most of the folks are incented to think about the current quarter. They want the message.
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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. Angie’s List, a home services site founded in 2005, carves off Craigslist’s household services category.
Intercom, Inc.
JANUARY 24, 2019
Mike has been in and around startups for the better part of three decades: as a consultant, as a co-founder and now as the Managing Director of Salesforce Incubator, which propels new startups into the marketplace. He joined me for a chat that ranged from the role of AI to how they choose startups to incubate. Short on time?
Mixpanel
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
It’s been a long-held notion in startup circles that lack of product-market fit will doom even the scrappiest of teams to fail. There’s a reason, after all, that Y Combinator chose the slogan “make something people want” shortly after they were founded in 2005. ” Credit: The Lean Startup Playbook. In short, yes.
Intercom, Inc.
FEBRUARY 4, 2021
We got the idea from about 2005, a friend of mine became obsessed with climate change. And even now we set up new companies, we set up a new startup in COVID actually, in lockdown, and we’ve taken that. And so we really learned that the messaging and the product had to do a different thing for every person in the organization.
Aptrinsic
JANUARY 2, 2018
Since its founding in 2005, Box has made it easier for people to securely share ideas, collaborate and get work done faster. Teams of engineers get misdirected, product marketing goes out with the wrong message, sales sells the wrong thing and customer success faces escalation issues. Chief Product Officer for Box?—?on
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