The Product Cafe

MARCH 22, 2023

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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. They’ve worked with all kinds of businesses, from startups to established enterprises, in a wide variety of industries.

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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. They’ve worked with all kinds of businesses, from startups to established enterprises, in a wide variety of industries.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 14, 2019

Since 2014, the company has been a trusted partner for more than 50 startups and global brands like Pepsi, Vimeo, Barbarian, etc. A B2B ranking platform App Development Companies has recognized Sidebench as one of the top 10 app development companies for startups. DCFS (foster care), American Heart Association, and many more.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 6, 2020

Facebook emerged stronger from the 2008 recession. What’s our strategy? The situation is challenging for sure, but we’ve put a strategy in place that will help us not just cope, but flourish (as we know every challenge is also an opportunity in disguise). What strategy should you use then? They’re just guessing.

Customer Experience 78

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UX Studio: Product Management

JULY 9, 2021

Once the product is released, we help you set up measuring systems, monitor the performance of your product, and work on the next steps and new strategies together. We work with companies of any size from many industries: Growing startups to well-known companies such as HBO, Google, Netflix, or the United Nations World Food Programme.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JULY 5, 2021

Since 2013, UX studio has been diligently working on helping rising startups and established companies create impactful digital products through intelligent design solutions. . Over 60 different startups and established companies expressed their gratitude for working with Momentum design lab and rated their collaboration as 4.8

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

It precisely describes the core of the concept and partly explains the startup curve model. After that, the startup is pushed to get outside the building and understand the necessity of real customer feedback management for product managers who try to improve the product. They keep the whole process secret, which is a big mistake?

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Crafty CTO

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Herter’s, The Business In 1937, George Herter launched his disruptive startup—a mail-order outdoor-sports business—in the spare rooms over his father’s Waseca, Minnesota dry goods store. So, yes, a disruptive startup it was. Disruptive? In 1937, mail order was as innovative and disruptive as e-commerce in 1999.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

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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UX Studio: Product Management

JANUARY 8, 2021

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. They claim to work with different companies, ranging from startups to Fortune 500 companies.

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Amplitude

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

When I was working for the first time in a pre-market startup back in 2008, we had some team members, trained in academia, who would seek the beautiful, perfect solution, over the pragmatic, good enough ones. That startup didn’t survive. It’s research to help us define our strategy. Ah, the perennial question.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JULY 12, 2021

They are a unique and fun team of professionals with expertise in digital strategy, website and eCommerce design , and creating brand identity. . They follow a three-step process when creating their solutions: Firstly, they focus on strategy by carrying out competitive research, user research, or growth roadmapping.

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Andrew Chen

AUGUST 8, 2022

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. You’ll need some kind of ROI metric to drive the strategy of the referral program. Why did this make sense for them?

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 8, 2019

Content strategy is part of your brand. “In early startup life, it’s great to have remote folks who are around the world for the follow-the-sun model” I became one of the first support people at Twitter, working part-time, remotely, from New Zealand. I ran the @support account, which I think is now @TwitterSupport.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 1, 2018

I’ve been working with my co-founders since 2007-2008. The biggest thing I find myself beating into the heads of either startups who I chat with or new folks who start at Intercom is this idea that if you’re doing things right, you’re going to ship a lot. The top right is your strategy. There is a lot to it.

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 25, 2017

It is a frequently asked about topic and I have a great guest to help us understand the components of a pricing strategy and how to price a product. I worked on this project in 2008 when it was a startup company. We have a lot in common regardless of the industry we work in. The topic of this episode is pricing.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 7, 2019

Bruno actually had his first Product Management experience back in 2008. This type of business acumen feeds into disparate things: your pricing strategy, your developmental timelines… It is almost intangible, and yet, it is essential for advanced Product Managers. After a couple of years, I got a job at a startup in Brazil.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Scrum’s Achilles Heel: Product Discovery In the attempt to fill Scrum’s product discovery void, product delivery organizations regularly turn to other agile frameworks like lean UX, jobs-to-be-done, lean startup, design thinking, design sprint?—?just Do you remember the origins of the financial crisis from 2008? just to name a few.

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Sachin Rekhi

JANUARY 25, 2009

This very simple statement serves as a guiding principle for a startup, helping to focus it on this core goal early on: to ensure that its product provides compelling value to its target audience. It also de-emphasizes many secondary issues that, while important, are not likely to be an early cause of failure for a startup.

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 3, 2019

It was refreshing because the content wasn’t about the typical Silicon Valley startups that try to grow super big. The talks that are applicable to my work have been most exciting.They also presented practical strategies. She helps companies connect with their audience via storytelling, content strategy, & digital marketing.

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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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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 3, 2019

It was refreshing because the content wasn’t about the typical Silicon Valley startups that try to grow super big. The talks that are applicable to my work have been most exciting.They also presented practical strategies. She helps companies connect with their audience via storytelling, content strategy, & digital marketing.

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UX Studio

MARCH 11, 2024

I think it was on the rise because when I started my university in 2008, I never heard about UX or HCI or design. You’re not expected to come up with the whole plan and the vision and the strategy that’s probably being done for you because you’re hired as a junior. Karthik: Yeah. I don’t know.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 24, 2019

Mike has been in and around startups for the better part of three decades: as a consultant, as a co-founder and now as the Managing Director of Salesforce Incubator, which propels new startups into the marketplace. He joined me for a chat that ranged from the role of AI to how they choose startups to incubate. Short on time?

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Andrew Chen

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

and finally, what happens when my “X for Y” startup idea is taken? People love describing startups as “X for Y” — why? ” In fact, Marketwatch did an analysis of startup company descriptions and found that startups often compared themselves to other companies in their descriptions.

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Userpilot

JULY 28, 2023

Finally, a simple mockup you launch on a crowdfunding platform can be an effective marketing strategy. Many startups have used this model to get off the ground. A demo video MVP gives you a platform to tell a story and set out a value proposition. High-fidelity MVP types Next up, we’re going to look at high-fidelity MVPs. . #7

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Decision making : Everything around strategy (where do we go next?), How it all started For over a decade the definitions I adopted were based on the ultimate guru every PM (including myself) worships: Marty Cagan. discovery (what to build next?) and day to day tactics (we have a production incident, what to do?)

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Box’s Chief Product Officer and Chief Strategy Officer, Jeetu Patel, discusses migrating to the platform mindset. With any hot topic in the startup world, it’s helpful to start by establishing terms. In today’s episode, we’re featuring the best parts from those chats. What follows is a lightly edited transcript of the episode.

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BrainMates

APRIL 2, 2019

In start-ups, Product Managers often report that founders don’t allow them to steer the Product Strategy and Roadmap. As early as 2008, Marty Cagan wrote: “In a very real sense, every product manager is in the risk management business. Every investment decision we make represents a risk.”.

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svpg

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

So when Microsoft released the most "full-featured word processor ever for the Mac" that crawled on their Macs -- we're talking literally two minutes to startup-- the community immediately started posting in newsgroups that Microsoft was actually trying to "kill the Mac.". The title is not important; the work they do is.

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 26, 2016

Matt Wensing: 1 Startup In 10 Years vs 1,000 Startups in 10 Minutes. Nilan Peiris: Building A High-Growth Startup Sustainably. Eric Ries: The Startup Way. Jon Reynolds: Riding the Swiftkey Rocket Ship from Startup to Acquisition. Why My Second Startup is Different. Rahul Vohra: The Product-Market Fit Engine.

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Andrew Chen

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

and finally, what happens when my “X for Y” startup idea is taken? People love describing startups as “X for Y” — why? ” In fact, Marketwatch did an analysis of startup company descriptions and found that startups often compared themselves to other companies in their descriptions.

Startups 40

Startups Customer Experience Technical Review Travel 40

The Product Coalition

JULY 17, 2018

WillowTree Image Source: Willow Tree Apps About the agency: WillowTree has been building apps since 2008, when three of them started building apps “the day the iOS SDK was released”. On top of that, it offers digital design, development and branding strategy development. So, let’s get down to it, shall we? Citibank, AIG, and more.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Back in 2008, I was a product manager at a startup that operated online communities for university alumni associations. It’s a bit hard to explain outside the context of a specific product challenge, so I’m going to start by sharing a story that I think will resonate with many of you, and then we’ll get into the tool itself.

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All About Product Management

DECEMBER 10, 2008

Lessons from a Silicon Valley Innovator by Rich Mironov This book compiles some of Rich's most popular columns from 2002 to 2008. Rich Mironov is a software product strategist and veteran of four high-tech startups. Collected into a single volume, it paints a picture of a typical interrupt-driven day.

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Business of Software Conference

AUGUST 1, 2019

It meant that the rich customer was funding the poor startup with no issuance of equity, no dilution of ownership, and of the upside rewards available to the investors and the entrepreneurial founders of the business – the cheapest capital imaginable. Now we have a reference and we can tell the next customer. But Microsoft is offering A.I.

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