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. and let it go.
UX Planet
JANUARY 23, 2024
Even in 2005, Facebook only succeeded because it fulfilled a practical need for its users. Messages sent from anything other than an iPhone are depicted as green speech balloons while those from an iPhone are blue. Ridiculous as it sounds, there is a social stigma around your messages coming through as green. It’s not “cool”.
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Intercom, Inc.
JANUARY 24, 2019
It’s now so inexpensive to go to market that having a great tech vision and product isn’t enough. 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. Marc is always wanting more. It’s like: “Okay, great.
Mixpanel
OCTOBER 20, 2020
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.
Intercom, Inc.
FEBRUARY 4, 2021
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.
Andrew Chen
NOVEMBER 26, 2018
Am excited to share a vision on the past and future of the service economy, in a collaboration by my a16z colleague Li Jin. Angie’s List, a home services site founded in 2005, carves off Craigslist’s household services category. [Dear readers, this essay is on the future of marketplaces. We answer, emphatically, yes!
Mixpanel
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
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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