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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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Technology Gets Old One Day at a Time: Broken Blog Feeds and What You Missed

Johanna Rothman

When I started to blog in 2003, I used Blogger. In 2006 or 2007, a little too late, I moved to WordPress. ” I had to hire someone to move my Blogger blog and HTML site from old technology to new technology. If you happen to look at the first couple of years of posts for my blog, you'll notice there are no comments.

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Upcoming Speaking Engagements

Bain Public

FITC Toronto 2008, Canada FITC Toronto 2007, Canada Flash Belt 2007, Minneapolis, U.S. Flash Forward 2007, Boston, U.S. We offer a variety of blog posts , e-books and approaches designed to help you understand your digital strategies and establish elements of the product roadmap in the fabric of your business.

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How To Screw Up The Launch Of A New Drug

The Accidental Product Manager

Biogen licensed the rights to Aduhelm back in 2007. Instead, they jumped to the final stage of testing which is much more expensive. They now have a partially approved drug that requires more testing. Hopefully, they’ll go back and do the required testing so that people will know if they can trust this new drug.

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The Only Leading Metric to Measure Product-Market Fit and How to Use It

The Product Coalition

Even when I search for “how to find product market fit,” I find vague articles describing how you should understand your target persona, test prototypes, etc., Marc Andreessen describes PMF in his 2007 blog post : “You can always feel when product/market fit is not happening. but nothing around how to measure it.

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Pirate Metrics For Product-Led SaaS-How Does The AARRR Framework Look Like In SaaS

Userpilot

Invented in 2007 by Dave McClure, pirate metrics is a framework that is still used by businesses to measure and optimize customer interaction across their lifecycle. Step 3 to implement pirate metrics in your SaaS: use a product adoption tool and A/B test in-product experiences to drive those metrics up. What are Pirate Metrics?

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How to Use Incremental Innovation to Build and Grow SaaS Products

Userpilot

In-app surveys , usability and prototype testing , or user interviews and focus groups can help you understand your customers’ requirements. Riskiest Assumption Testing (RAT) and Fake Door Testing are good ways of validating ideas before you commit to developing them. Test assumptions before building.