The Product Bistro

JANUARY 31, 2017

While the traditional origin myth that Amazon used this excess capacity to start the AWS or Amazon Web Services, isn’t true, some smart person in their product group realized that their infrastructure and systems would be a great way for small organizations to quickly build network based applications. Then in 2007 it all changed.

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The Product Cafe

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Hello, all you product-loving folks! 🥰 Welcome to this week's edition of Product Café, your weekly cup of coffee for everything product management, startups, and more. ☕ Thank you for reading Product Café’s newsletter ☕️ Subscribe for free to receive new posts every week!

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 1, 2022

A user funnel represents the customer journey from first finding out about your product, to becoming a paying customer and then a brand advocate. Acquisition refers to the stage where new users first sign up for a free trial or demo of your product. Building user funnels for your SaaS product has a lot of benefits. Activation.

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UX Studio

APRIL 6, 2023

As a global design agency, we collaborate with both startups and enterprises worldwide and have broad experience in nearly every niche and industry. We combine high-quality website design with user experience design to deliver an end product that helps our partners achieve their business goals.

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UX Studio

APRIL 6, 2023

As a global design agency, we collaborate with both startups and enterprises worldwide and have broad experience in nearly every niche and industry. We combine high-quality website design with user experience design to deliver an end product that helps our partners achieve their business goals.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JANUARY 8, 2021

A digital product agency in San Francisco. Ramotion is a small design agency located in San Francisco, USA, that works with growing startups and enterprises. . As a digital product agency, it strives to help clients with branding, positioning, web and app development, copywriting, and information architecture. .

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Bain Public

MARCH 20, 2021

I am ready to provide business leaders and product managers the information, access, and expert guidance that they wish they had earlier in their product journey. I share my passion for product through workshops, published articles and speaking engagements. Interested in having me speak or attend an event? Reach out to me.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

Not only does this save a lot of time and money, it also results in better end products that people will love. In this incredible talk from Mind the Product London 2017, Jake Knapp shared how he developed the Design Sprint, and how to do them well. At Google in 2007, the same thing was happening. The Genesis.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 27, 2018

Josh refers to a quote by Eric Ries: “The unit of progress for lean startups is validated learning.” The minimum viable product (MVP) is the smallest thing you can do or make to create validated learning, says Josh. A Twitter user used it in 2007 as a way to track conversations when he tweeted at some of his friends.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 22, 2017

Gibson Biddle has worked in product at several entertainment companies, such as Netflix, Mattel, and EA, as well as educational companies such as Chegg and The Learning Company. He discusses all of these experiences through the lens of Netflix, where he was the Vice President of Product. At the time, Netflix was a small startup.

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UX Studio

MARCH 11, 2024

Another friend who had like a kite surf school and I did his website for free and then then I got contacted by a local company that imported surfing, windsurfing, kitesurfing products. And that was back in 2007 and has been going ever since. These days are more around product design and UX design. and so that’s what I did.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 13, 2021

It was Friday, November 16th, 2007. The reason I am telling you that is that whenever I talk about the fact that your product needs to solve a problem (or serve a need) for your target customers, people bring up Facebook as a theoretical counterexample. The #1 reason that startups fail is that they make something nobody wants.

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

How did Amazon’s product strategy fare during the pandemic? Short answer: Amazon’s product strategy example lead the way). Amazon’s product strategy example has rewritten the book on convenience, easy access, and speed, and in doing so, embedded itself in the daily lives and routines of consumers.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 15, 2009

The great news is there are a variety of startups out there waiting to help you! Let's take a look at the players in this space: Offerpal Media , founded in June 2007, is the most well known managed offer provider, supporting 2.5 PayBuyPartner is one such product brought to you by CPA Storm. They are definitely worth a look.

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Andrew Chen

MAY 28, 2019

I’m looking for startups that can change the game there. I’d be interested in other products that tap into the trends around AirPods, Alexa, voice assistants, etc., It could create a strong advantage around paid marketing if a product has high subscription retention or ARPU, allowing them to make higher bids in the various ad networks.

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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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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

It all started back to 2007 in San Francisco, when Brian Chesky decided to rent air mattresses at his apartment in order to afford the rent. There are two general strategies for picking features for your MVP (minimal viable product): you can either map a user’s journey or prioritize functions from must-have to will-not-have.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 1, 2018

Convincing potential users to sign up for your product isn’t easy. At Traction Conference, an event all about how to keep and grow customers and revenue at scale, I explained how to build onboarding based on your customers’ goals, and why when your product improves, your onboarding must improve with it.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 10, 2018

Andrew’s been an angel investor and advisor for a slew of name-brand startups; however, he’s most widely known for his invaluable essays on growth. First zero in on a strategy for achieving your desired outcome , and then pick high quality metrics to validate your tests. Adam Risman: Andrew, welcome to Inside Intercom.

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Andrew Chen

MAY 28, 2019

I’m looking for startups that can change the game there. I’d be interested in other products that tap into the trends around AirPods, Alexa, voice assistants, etc., It could create a strong advantage around paid marketing if a product has high subscription retention or ARPU, allowing them to make higher bids in the various ad networks.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

I did Y Combinator the Summer of 2007 in Boston with two awesome co-founders. I would break down the value of the Y Combinator experience into four main benefits: jump starting the startup process, access to a fraternity of entrepreneurs, investor day, and funding. Jump Start the Startup Process. So what is Y Combinator?

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Sachin Rekhi

MARCH 6, 2009

at the end of 2007. A/B Testing. Everyone knows that A/B testing is a good idea and they should do it. It's because A/B testing is hard and the tools often used to perform it are limited. There's likely a startup opportunity to provide better A/B testing tools that let you look at the full effect of variations over time).

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

As many of you know, I'm a huge proponent of on-demand computing as I believe it's the best starting point for most early stage web startups. At my previous startup Anywhere.FM , we were an early adopter of Amazon Web Services in 2007. While Amazon's cheapest instance starts at $63.24/mo mo (256MB RAM).

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Andrew Chen

MAY 14, 2018

Collaborative tools like Dropbox and Slack benefit from built-in virality , where teams adopt them together – and they represent a tidal wave of software products that truly understand the relationships between people. First zero in on a strategy for achieving your desired outcome , and then pick high quality metrics to validate your tests.

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Business of Software Conference

MAY 15, 2019

It was I think the biggest startup in corporate history at the time. So the iPhone was a 2G product. And this was an area where I was enabled to really flourish in terms of basically working out how we could try and solve them, and came up with quite a lot of products. It went from zero to seventeen hundred people in a year.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Tim Barker has established three startups and has seen the ups and downs of the startup journey, from his first business being acquired by Salesforce – where he spent five years in the formative age of cloud computing – to his current company DataSift being acquired by Meltwater in 2018. This is a B2B product.

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