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Building What Customers Need: The Ultimate Recipe

The Product Coalition

And this is a terrifying and disturbing thought because startups and entrepreneurs invest tons of money to build these products. Building Products Customers Need Proven Methods To Build Products Customers Need Working Backward Approach Dr. Werner Vogels , CTO of Amazon.com, wrote an article about Amazon’s working backward approach in 2006.

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Launching a New Breakout Product | Jason Fried | BoS USA Online 2020

Business of Software Conference

And over the years we’ve made a name for ourselves being an independent company we’re a relatively small business intentionally. I did see a question about Jeff Bezos Yes, Jeff Bezos owns a small piece of Basecamp, which we sold him in 2006. Yeah, in 2006. we have 56 people in the company. And that was exciting.

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14 years building BoS

Business of Software Conference

And there were lots of conferences for startups and lots of conferences for people that were raising funds and IPO going and all sorts of crazy old things. While we’re reminiscing in hindsight, if you were to go even further back all the way to 2006, before your first BoS conference, what would you tell yourself? I like to learn.