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Recognizing Longevity

Mironov Consulting

Back story: I joined a 20-person startup in 1998 as the first product person. Newbies like me could scan their desktops and instantly jump to the right conclusion: I might be smart and smug, but here was someone who’d been part of the company’s earlier startup struggles. The company was called iPass, led by founder Chris Moore.

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How Have Companies Thrived During The Economic Downturns?

The Product Cafe

💜 Welcome to this week's edition of Product Café, your weekly cup of coffee for everything product management, startups, and more. i.e. a design spec needed to be shared - bamb the dev added it; when the team was struggling to dig into older messages - there was a search tool (which now has some really cool copies.

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Little Otter’s Rebecca Egger on making mental health care accessible to all

Intercom, Inc.

In a heartfelt testimony, Rebecca recalls how her little brother came down with a rare autoimmune brain disorder back in 2008. Before that, I was at Palantir and at a few startups doing various things. The rush of a startup. Liam: How did you find the startup experience or the startup life? Liam: For sure.

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Effective Strategies to Predict Churn in SaaS

Userpilot

Customers could churn due to one of the following reasons: Product-market fit failure: This is one of the biggest reasons for churn and something that most startups deal with. Users want SaaS products that are as intuitive as possible; no one wants to struggle to use a piece of software as if they’re living in 2008.

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Coda’s Shishir Mehrotra on rethinking docs from scratch

Intercom, Inc.

How has that transition been for you, going from the giant company that is Google back to the early-stage startup that is Coda? You joined YouTube back in 2008, and you helped guide the company through hypergrowth after its acquisition by Google. When I got to YouTube in 2008, we had amazing growth in lots of different ways.

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How to design a referral program

Andrew Chen

It seems as though every consumer app has implemented some form of a referral program, though I argue it really kicked off in ~2008, which is when Dropbox’s innovative referral program was rolled out. What’s the message? Why did this make sense for them? When do you ask the user to refer? Why do you refer? All of them?

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Best App Designing Companies to Work With in 2021

UX Studio: Product Management

Ramotion is a small design agency located in San Francisco, USA, that works with growing startups and enterprises. . As a global web and app design company, we continuously collaborate with startups and enterprises all over the world. Message us , and we will be in touch with you to arrange a consultation with our experts.