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This Founder Built Startups in 2008, 2016 and 2018. Here’s What He’s Learned About Resiliency

First Round Review

Bob Moore's first brush with life as a founder started in 2008—three days before Lehman Brothers collapsed. Here, Moore shares the lessons he's learned along the way, from weathering bear markets and losing out to the competition, to finding (and falling out of) product/market fit.

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This Founder Built Startups in 2008, 2016 and 2018. Here’s What He’s Learned About Resiliency

First Round Review

Bob Moore's first brush with life as a founder started in 2008—three days before Lehman Brothers collapsed. Here, Moore shares the lessons he's learned along the way, from weathering bear markets and losing out to the competition, to finding (and falling out of) product/market fit.

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Upcoming Speaking Engagements

Bain Public

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12 Types of Minimum Viable Product With Their Pros and Cons

Userpilot

A minimum viable product (often referred to as an MVP) is a version of a product with just enough features to be usable. A form of minimum viable product MVP designed to attract customers up front and raise money to actually build the product prior to launch. Many startups have used this model to get off the ground.

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Effective Strategies to Predict Churn in SaaS

Userpilot

Common reasons for churn: Product-market fit failure. Product pricing plan weak points. 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. Poor onboarding. Delayed Aha moment.

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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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The Road to a $100M Company Doesn’t Start with Product

Brian Balfour

In the introduction to this series I made the point that Product Market Fit isn't the only thing that matters. It is actually only one of four fits needed to grow a product to $100M+ in a venture-backed time frame. Why we should be thinking about it as Market Product Fit.