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Product Failure is An Opportunity

The Product Coalition

The dating platform “YouTube” rebranded as a video website and sold in 2006 to Google for USD 1.6 The messaging feature “Slack” quickly became more successful than the game, and Glitch was cut in 2012. It allowed users to call a phone number to leave a message, which automatically created a web-based podcast. and let it go.

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5 Costly Branding Mistakes

UX Planet

They believe so strongly in their vision that they assume it’s universally appealing. Different people have contrasting interpretations of the visual and messaging guidelines. Consistency usually goes beyond visuals; it extends to every aspect, from messaging to customer interactions.

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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. And that went on to become a monster, I floated it on the London Stock Exchange in 2006, exited it in 2008 for about a half a billion bucks and that brings us up to the latest bunch of companies.

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Reflecting on the Intercom journey – Karen Peacock and Des Traynor in conversation

Intercom, Inc.

And, yes, that means we have to be good for targeting, marketing, messages, and yes, it means we need to be really good at structuring thousands of inbound conversations and doing ticketing workflows and triage and all that sort of stuff. It’s unusual to have folks who have a strong vision who are also open-minded.

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Alchemer Acquires Apptentive, Market-Leading Mobile Feedback Platform

Alchemer Mobile

Founded in 2006, Alchemer helps businesses collect, analyze, and leverage customer and employee feedback to proactively drive better engagement, retention, and user experience. Alchemer is excited that the Apptentive team shares our vision to make every customer and employee voice matter.”.

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The Evolution of Modern Product Discovery

Product Talk

By 2004, Microsoft was already announcing that they didn’t want to support it anymore, and by 2006 they ended support for it. These specific tools are awesome, if you’re not familiar with them I recommend you learn about them, but here is the more important message. This is one of Microsoft’s worst products. It doesn’t matter.