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Winning product analytics

Mixpanel

In 2009, when Mixpanel was founded, the world was in a period of uncertainty and still facing the Great Recession. The data ecosystem looks nothing like it did when we got started in 2009. Amid a bleak outlook, companies like Slack, WhatsApp, and Uber were founded and began to lay the groundwork for orchestrating major paradigm shifts.

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What Lifecycle or Agile Approach Fits Your Context? Part 5, Origins of Agile Approaches

Johanna Rothman

From about 2003-2009, Scrum worked for many of my clients. Until we finished work and released increments of value more often, as in the Incremental lifecycles , we couldn't use short feedback loops. Those short feedback loops allow us to use double-loop learning. We need to get to “done.”

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What is reverse ETL and why does it matter for your product data?

Mixpanel

Thanks to the Mixpanel of 2009, it’s now inconceivable to not collect first-party data and make decisions with it. It really changed the way we started collecting and taking insights from data from our apps and websites. I’m of the opinion that without Mixpanel, there is no Segment.io, no CDP. But what’s next?

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Learning from Failure: Product Manager Style

The Product Coalition

Thanks to the success of the original Peek, TwitterPeek was released shortly after in 2009 receiving a much frostier reception. Start by defining your Minimum Viable Customer who you can use as a focus group to start the feedback loop. What went wrong? The main problem was that Twitter Peek was a product with no customer.

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AI, Hype, And The Future Of Humanity | Rick Nucci, Guru | BoS USA 2018

Business of Software Conference

This is that same one from 2009 and 2009. Cloud computing was on the same exact path and trajectory as a I was in 2009 you had just as many people talking about it using words that didn’t make any sense. And so taking those sort of sub fields of A.I. Yeah it’s a brilliant way to train and A.I. system right.

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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. It becomes it’s deep in process C of getting better at getting better with the system inherently has a feedback loop that makes it cumulative which generates exponential growth in value so it makes sense.

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Kinzen’s CEO Mark Little on the fight against disinformation

Intercom, Inc.

” At the same time, I saw Twitter and YouTube emerging, and I remember it was a protested election in Iran in 2009. It’s a beautiful feedback loop between a small expert group and really advanced machine learning systems that are exponentially greater in their capacity now than they were even four years ago.