Andrew Chen

JANUARY 9, 2020

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. And why we love X for Y startups. I turned this from a tweetstorm into a much longer discussion, and wanted to share it there!

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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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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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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 13, 2021

Educating the market is hard enough as is, but there is one thing without which you cannot succeed. It was Friday, November 16th, 2007. It’s not about your product, it’s about their unmet need. My free e-book “ Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit ”?—?an There has to be an unmet need that you can answer.

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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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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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Userpilot

AUGUST 29, 2022

You can then use that score to make product improvements, find patterns in user behavior, and send relevant in-app messages to specific segments. One of the most well-known (and original) examples of engineering as marketing is HubSpot’s Website Grader. Engineering as marketing example #2: HubSpot’s Website Grader.

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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. Subscribe to get the rest of the series.

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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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Andrew Chen

JANUARY 9, 2020

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. And why we love X for Y startups. I turned this from a tweetstorm into a much longer discussion, and wanted to share it there!

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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. When Gainsight CEO Nick Mehta asked Anthony to run marketing, Anthony he was jumping in at the deep end.

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Userpilot

JULY 5, 2022

Small but regular improvements are a more reliable way to achieve product-market fit. Why should product managers focus on incremental innovation strategies? Achieve product-market fit faster… and keep it. Incremental innovation helps you achieve product-market fit quickly.

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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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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. Outgrowing the player-coach model.

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Andrew Chen

MARCH 18, 2019

It’s been said (and written) that we are kind of in a funky consumer internet winter, compared to 2007 when we had the Facebook platform and the iOS/Android platforms and so on. Product/market fit could be a lot better. What distribution channels should a new consumer internet startup consider in 2019? Talk to them.

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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 Basics of Product Management

JULY 21, 2020

It is all a question about timing and finding the right product market fit. Apple products are known to possess a certain style element that captures the user’s imagination. This holds true for all the recent Apple product categories. The Apple iPhone was a game changer in 2007. Well, yes and no.

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The Product Cafe

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

When the iPhone was released in 2007, they realized this was their big chance to target the whole iPhone user base. Evan and Bobby and the rest of the early team were incredible at talking to and understanding their users which helped them achieve Snapchat’s product-market fit.

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Amplitude

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Today, Merci works as a Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners , investing in early-stage consumer and B2B companies looking to find product-market fit and accelerated growth opportunities. In case you Join us at Amplify to be inspired by Marcelo’s discussion on the creative potential of your product marketing campaigns.

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Andrew Chen

MARCH 18, 2019

It’s been said (and written) that we are kind of in a funky consumer internet winter, compared to 2007 when we had the Facebook platform and the iOS/Android platforms and so on. Product/market fit could be a lot better. What distribution channels should a new consumer internet startup consider in 2019? Talk to them.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 14, 2016

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

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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

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

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.

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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 the reason this happens is any business is created at a particular point in history when certain things are possible, and certain things are not.

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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. Fresh talks on entrepreneurship, product, marketing, leadership, hiring, and more dropping each week. Kirk Baillie. Mark Littlewood. Kirk Baillie.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Couple of really good examples of that are product management and product marketing because they are a multiplier; they collaborate across a team so if you don’t have a really high bar there you’re going to have really bad product and you’re going to have really bad messaging for your sales and marketing team.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 24, 2021

And then you end up building multiple products over a number of years, we launched in 2004, we launch Basecamp, and 2005, we launch Ta-da list, and then we launched Backpack in the same year in 2006, we launched Campfire. In 2007, we launched Highrise; we launched a new product every year for like four or five years, basically.

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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

Rahul Vohra: The Product-Market Fit Engine. Claire Suellentrop: Get Out Of The Echo Chamber: How To Use JTBD To Perfect Your Product’s Messaging. Steve Johnson: The Strategic Role of Product Management. Talks from BoS USA 2007 – Unrecorded :-(. Greg Baugues: Mental Health – What You Can Do.

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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. Fresh talks on entrepreneurship, product, marketing, leadership, hiring, and more dropping each week. Upcoming Events.

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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.

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