Andrew Chen

JANUARY 9, 2020

A really detailed 68 page analysis of the podcast market. The iPhone comes out in 2007 and changes the camera industry. Makes you ask- What’s the next product where this will happen? Magic metrics indicating a startup probably has product/market fit. The podcast ecosystem in 2019. It’s super fun.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 11, 2020

So I want to share my take when to suggest for monolithic and when to suggest for microservices from several aspects: Product Phases When our product are still on proof of concept / MVP phase, I strongly suggest to use monolithic architecture , since there is no guarantee that the product would be used often.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 29, 2022

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? One of their biggest target markets is weddings.

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UX Planet

JUNE 1, 2025

The AARRR growth framework (Acquisition, Activation, Retention, Revenue, and Referral), popularized by Dave McClure in 2007, provides a valuable structure for strategically organizing growth efforts McClure,2007. Rappi improved conversion and alignment between marketing and sales through A/B testing in the conversion funnel UXCam,2023.

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Andrew Chen

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

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. I met tons of incredible people, some of whom went on to create major products and found unicorn companies. And Burning Man people.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 25, 2022

Have you recently been invited to a product marketing manager interview? One of the best and first things you should do is review the most common product marketing interview questions and answers. Product marketing managers play a critical role in bringing new products to market.

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Andrew Chen

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

I moved to the Bay Area in 2007, as a first time founder with a lot of energy and a lot of questions. I was a first-time founder, and the real-life entrepreneurial experiences they relayed – on fundraising, finding product/market fit, hiring, and much more – proved to be insanely helpful. Incredibly excited.

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Userpilot

JULY 8, 2021

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. The pirate metrics framework was developed by Dave McClure from 500 Startups and introduced in his 2007, presentation entitled “Startup Metrics for Pirates.”.

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Andrew Chen

JANUARY 9, 2020

A really detailed 68 page analysis of the podcast market. The iPhone comes out in 2007 and changes the camera industry. Makes you ask- What’s the next product where this will happen? Magic metrics indicating a startup probably has product/market fit. The podcast ecosystem in 2019. It’s super fun.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 18, 2019

In late 2007, a pair of roommates found themselves scraping their wallets to come up with enough cash to cover their exorbitant San Francisco rent. Anthony Kennada , the Chief Marketing Officer at Gainsight , has helped navigate these tricky waters and put the Customer Success category on the map.

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Brian Balfour

JULY 12, 2017

This is part 3 in a series about the growth frameworks companies need to grow to $100M+ Part One: Introduction & Why Product Market Fit Isn't Enough. The Road to a $100M Company Doesn’t Start with Product. Which brings us to part three: Product Channel Fit. Network Makes Product Better. Paid Marketing.

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Userpilot

JULY 5, 2022

Small but regular improvements are a more reliable way to achieve product-market fit. If your customer feedback shows your product is very different from what they need, don’t wait and pivot. Closing the customer feedback loop will help your product stay relevant in the face of changing market trends and user expectations.

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Bain Public

MARCH 20, 2021

FITC Toronto 2008, Canada FITC Toronto 2007, Canada Flash Belt 2007, Minneapolis, U.S. Flash Forward 2007, Boston, U.S. Flash Belt 2008, Minneapolis, U.S. Flash Forward 2008, San Francisco, U.S. FITC Winnipeg 2006, Canada FITC Toronto 2006, Canada FITC Toronto 2005, Canada Flash Forward 2005, New York, U.S.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 19, 2019

The product manager-to-developer ratio. Another method for deciding how many product managers a company needs is to base it on the number of engineers working on the company’s products. Not having enough product managers can cause problems in several ways. Keying off revenue. Outgrowing the player-coach model.

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Andrew Chen

MARCH 18, 2019

Or big market! All of that said, beyond the obvious things (team, market, product, etc.) This used to be the case decades ago, but these days, startups fail because they don’t get traction in the market. I’m a believer in free markets, and also in thinking long-term. – successful: market for ceo pay.

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All About Product Management

AUGUST 14, 2007

So how do you (as a ScrumMaster/Product manager) broaden the influence of scrum so that all the product stakeholders have the opportunity get involved at the appropriate points in time? Make it easy for anyone ( Sales, Product Marketing , Information Architect etc.) to contribute to the product backlog.

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The Basics of Product Management

JULY 21, 2020

However, it is important to note that the market for these products is still unproven. The right product strategy is necessary to make the smart glass product a success. It is all a question about timing and finding the right product market fit. This holds true for all the recent Apple product categories.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

While it may make sense at a later stage to move to your own data center as you look to optimize costs, it rarely should be a priority in the tumultuous early days when you are still searching for product/market fit. At my previous startup Anywhere.FM , we were an early adopter of Amazon Web Services in 2007.

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The Product Cafe

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Nintendo’s first gaming console product was the Famicom which had to be called off the market only after a few months. While the Wii was a huge success, its successor, Wii U fell short, mainly due to its poor marketing strategy. Their new marketing made it clear that this was a brand-new product.

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Amplitude

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

And Amplify has something for more than just PMs—our speakers come from a host of backgrounds including growth marketing, engineering, and customer experience. Zoom is an excellent example of what it looks like to build a user-centric product that directly tackles a widespread need. Merci Grace. You can follow Merci on Twitter here.

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Andrew Chen

MARCH 18, 2019

Or big market! All of that said, beyond the obvious things (team, market, product, etc.) This used to be the case decades ago, but these days, startups fail because they don’t get traction in the market. I’m a believer in free markets, and also in thinking long-term. – successful: market for ceo pay.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 14, 2016

It might be tempting to say, something we can market or sell. But when it comes to digital products, this definition has only limited applicability. Is that a product? Or is the entire website the product? And how would others, including people from development, marketing, and sales, answer this question?

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Sachin Rekhi

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Marc Andreessen initially introduced the concept of product/market fit in this post published in 2007. It was an incredibly helpful notion to explain why startup products were failing left & right as well as provided a guiding north star on what you ultimately needed to achieve to build a successful startup.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 11, 2020

They didn’t feel good for the first almost three years Compete, and we sold Compete in 2007 to a company WPP a London based giant. E-commerce is dead. Department like all of these things make for nice stories now. ML : Yeah, who are having a few issues. ML : Right, now let’s share some other stories. But it was really around.

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 20, 2020

So, as a business begins to discover its business model, its product market fit it begins to enjoy the recipe for success or, more specifically, its leaders do. And so, this chart is just a chart from the gaming business, and it reflects market share position in various gaming platforms over time. We had arcade games.

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Business of Software Conference

APRIL 17, 2020

Having founded Doist in 2007, Amir Salihefendic is the CEO and founder of the company behind Todoist and Twist. So, we are creators of two tools; One is a task manager app that I started actually in 2007. And I kind of find like a product market fit todoist. And I needed to hire people.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

All of their data would run through our technology because at the other end of that there are brands and businesses that really wanted to understand what was happening on social media; what was happening around their brand, their industry, their market. The first one is market relevance. We didn’t start with this proposition.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 30, 2021

So you’ve come in and you’ve been running annual conferences since 2007, and then bi annual conferences since 2014, when you launched the EU as well as the US conference. And we’ve never wanted to be the biggest conference in the world, I guess there was that sort of slight reacting to market demand. Kirk Baillie.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 24, 2021

One is that some stuff around product and team and building a new, a new breakout, very different product to the one that you’ve got. There are some questions around marketing. And I know you don’t do any marketing, haha. But again, you forget that the real work comes from maintaining products.

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Sachin Rekhi

JUNE 25, 2017

Another incredibly important aspect for product managers to master is defining and iterating on your product's strategy. A compelling strategy details exactly how you'll dominate your market and is constantly refined until you find product/market fit. Design is the third critical dimension of product management.

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 26, 2016

Shawn Anderson & Shane Corellian: Alternative Marketing, or “Oops I Did A Marketing” Ayat Shukairy: Why “Customer First” Fails & What To Do About It. Rahul Vohra: The Product-Market Fit Engine. Andrus Purde: The Evolution of a SaaS Marketing Team. Talks from BoS EU 2014.

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Business of Software Conference

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

It was 2007, which I realized is 13 years ago, which feels like a very long time. But back, but yeah, I mean, back-to-back in like 2007-2008 timeframe, I actually acquired a small ad network. And we also learned that kind of the market we’re in wasn’t the best. Starting Adzerk, an Overnight Sensation. SEEDSTRAPPED.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

The product was launched in 2001 as the company’s first consumer music gadget in a market, which at the time was dominated by products like the Nomad Jukebox from Creative Labs. Products can, in fact, benefit from repeated life cycle extensions. End of Life : The product is discontinued.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 28, 2025

We’d met a couple of years earlier, in 2007, when Google bought their startup. The three of us started talking about an idea for a new product: video conferencing software that could run in a web browser. My colleagues were Serge Lachapelle and Mikael Drugge. So we set an audacious goal. It was Monday morning. A prototype.

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