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5 Business ‘Rules’ Worth Breaking

Business of Software Conference

Cohen starts his presentation by telling a story about how he started blogging in 2009. Besides, why am I doing demos all day long? Rule Worth Breaking #1: There are rules to success in business. And to succeed, you must follow them scrupulously. So great, that’s a good point. We should have real sales.

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Coda’s Shishir Mehrotra on rethinking docs from scratch

Intercom, Inc.

How do you name an all-in-one solution for a plethora of problems, which – until now – have required individual tools? One of my favorite examples is if you hit flag on a YouTube video back in 2008 or 2009, it would create a row in a spreadsheet on an ops person’s desk. Some people saw this as crazy.

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Build Iron Man Suits, Not Terminators | Carl Ryden, PrecisionLender | BoS Europe 2018

Business of Software Conference

We started our company in May of 2009 with quite literally a blank screen and a blinking cursor. Peldi knows, a few people know – yeah, mother of demos guy. Nearly 50 years ago he was actually getting ready to come on stage before a thousand engineers in this auditorium in San Francisco to give a demo and it was a packed auditorium.

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Women in Tech – Female CxOs Share their Challenges in Tech Startups – with Melissa Kwan, Alice de Courcy, Maja Voje, Laura Erdem & others

Userpilot

I was doing all the demos myself, so that led to my next company – ewebinar – so I could run the demos on autopilot.” Sima Banijamali : “I started in tech in 2009, and in 2010 I moved to Sweden from Iran and started studying. I run that company for 4 years (bootstrapped) and got acquired in 2019.

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17 Web Conversion Metrics You Should be Tracking in Your SaaS in 2022

Userpilot

Here are some common examples of conversion micro-conversion metrics: Seeing your business’ name on a banner ad. Get a Userpilot demo and see how it can help. Since opening shop in 2009, he has gone on to amass over 70 awards and mentions for work in web design and digital solutions. Following your brand on social media.

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Upsides to unshipping: The art of removing features and products

Mixpanel

“Joining an All Hands meeting to demo a new feature is always going to feel better than coming to the meeting as the grim reaper saying, ‘We killed this feature.’ Other names and phrases for unshipping: killing, reverting, deprecating, sunsetting, rolling back, removing, winding down, retiring, and obsolescence.

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A Guide to Customer Retention: 14 Proven Strategies to Retain More SaaS Customers

Userpilot

Back in 2009, a lot of Foursquare’s initial user retention was down to gamification. This is what an NPS survey looks like in Userpilot: And this is what a qualitative follow-up survey looks like: If you’d like to learn more about building in-app surveys with Userpilot, consider booking a free demo. Source: Foursquare.