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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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What is Engineering as Marketing and How Can It Help You Drive Product Growth

Userpilot

What is engineering as marketing and how can it help you drive product growth and boost your authority in your industry? In this article, we’re going to cover everything you need to know about engineering as marketing, including: What is engineering as marketing? Best practices for implementing it. Let’s get started.

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New Course: Finding Product/Market Fit

Sachin Rekhi

I've dedicated my entire career to five such hunts across the three startups I co-founded as well as the new products I built at LinkedIn and Microsoft. In 2007 I founded my first startup, Anywhere.FM, which developed a web music player that allowed you to upload your entire music collection to the web and then stream it from anywhere.

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Top 10 Japanese Startups

freshtrax

This makes it a hot spot for startups in Japan because of how much potential there is to grow there. These investments stimulate entrepreneurship in Japan causing the Japanese startup scene to be hotter than ever before. Curious to know which innovative startups are successful in Japan? Related article? Market Capitalization.

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The Best Custom Software Development Companies in Poland

The Product Coalition

Since its establishment in 2013, it has been providing best-in-class website development, web app development, and mobile app development services for startups, small businesses, and enterprises worldwide. Fireart software engineers are highly skilled in Angular, React, Node, Vue, and other Javascript frameworks. El Passion Min.

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10 years in the Bay Area – what I’ve learned

Andrew Chen

January 2007. It was 2007, and the iPhone hadn’t been released yet, YCombinator was just getting started, and MySpace was still bigger than Facebook. I barely knew anyone when I first arrived here, so I had a simple goal in 2007: Meet 5 new people per day, every day. Startup romanticism. People are the secret sauce.

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Monolithic vs Microservices from Product Manager Perspective

The Product Coalition

Let’s say that you want to create an all-in-one service to create payment system to vendor, and since you are too eager to scale it up you instantly suggest engineers to create a microservices and then struggle heavily because in the end it’s too powerful and didn’t even get enough usage from stakeholder to be considered success.