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The Demo goes badly

The Product Bistro

A recent story about the original iPhone demo at Moscone center in SF, in early 2007 from the point of view of the engineers in the audience is particularly illuminating. Every product development project has a crucial milestone, the official demonstration.

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Ignoring Innovation: Lessons from Kodak

Melissa Perri

In 2007 I joined an innovation swat team at Cornell in the Johnson Graduate School of Business. It was called the Business, Science, and Technology Initiative (known to the cool kids as BSTI). We were working with Kodak to come up with a completely new product that would appeal to our age group, the early 20s.

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AARRR vs RARRA: Pirate Metrics Explained

Mind the Product

First presented by Dave McClure in his presentation “Startup Metrics for Pirates” in 2007, the AARRR method was originally meant for tracking product marketing and management and focused on acquisition. Pirates metrics have become a popular model for business growth — but what are they and do they actually lead you to that buried treasure?

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How to break into Silicon Valley

Andrew Chen

This is advice I’ve been giving to people for years, and it’s shaped by my own experience — after all, I moved to the Bay Area in 2007 and it completely changed my life. In 2007 this was cutting edge at a time when product success was often measured by vanity metrics such as the total registrations for a product.

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Mastering the Problem Space for Product/Market Fit by Dan Olsen

Mind the Product

The term Product/Market Fit was coined by Marc Andreesen back in 2007 and it’s been a key goal for any new product or startup ever since. But like any buzzword, it is often oversimplified and misunderstood.

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Gibson Biddle – Wicked Hard Decisions at Netflix

Mind the Product

Then in 2007, Netflix launched their streaming platform. In 2007, Netflix started to look into partnering with hardware manufacturers to get Netflix content streaming on people’s televisions. In 2002, Netflix went public. While they had around 600,000 subscribers at launch, they had a challenge to face.

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What is a Digital Product?

Roman Pichler

The ancestor of Windows 10, Windows NT, was launched in 1993, and iOS was introduced with the first iPhone in 2007, for example. But products have a different life cycle and typically exist for longer. Similarly, products have different success criteria compared to projects.