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Coronavirus Business Impact: A Startup Disaster or a Big Opportunity to Innovate

The Product Coalition

How many startups will survive the COVID-19 economic crisis ? Startups that have started producing their products in China are at risk of experiencing considerable damages or disappear at all. Consequently, it may cause a slight decrease in investing startups and initiatives pitched by medium-sized companies.

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The Evolution of WhatsApp

The Product Coalition

The Beginning: Redefining Communication WhatsApp’s journey began in 2009 when two former Yahoo employees, Brian Acton and Jan Koum , envisioned a platform that would provide a simple and reliable way for people to stay connected. On February 24, 2009, Koum completed the development of the iOS application and established “WhatsApp Inc.”

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Top 10 Japanese Startups

freshtrax

This makes it a hot spot for startups in Japan because of how much potential there is to grow there. These investments stimulate entrepreneurship in Japan causing the Japanese startup scene to be hotter than ever before. Curious to know which innovative startups are successful in Japan? Market Capitalization. HEROZ, Inc.

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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. We’ve arrived at this moment due to the collective vision, effort, and trust of each and every employee, customer, and partner we’ve been lucky enough to have on our team.

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Layoffs: Has the Product Management Industry Failed Us?

The Product Coalition

Eventually, a big enough business must diversify and reach for other markets where it can keep growing into. Between marketplace, cloud, hardware, streaming and much else, they had to narrow down their vision of value delivery and specialize. 2009 was not easy after the 2008 crash, but we all lived through it in one piece.

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Seven Tips for Building a Business in a Recession From Someone Who Did Exactly That in 2008

The Product Coalition

Seven Tips for Building A Business in A Recession From Someone Who Did Exactly That in 2008 Even amid chaos, there’s a chance for opportunity Ashish Toshniwal, CEO and Co-founder at YML Calm seas never made a great sailor, and in March 2009, I unintentionally broached into a tsunami. What we did have was a lot of faith in our vision.

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What’s next for marketplace startups? Reinventing the $10 trillion service economy, that’s what.

Andrew Chen

Is there still room for marketplace startups to innovate? Am excited to share a vision on the past and future of the service economy, in a collaboration by my a16z colleague Li Jin. Five strategies for unlocking supply in regulated markets. [Dear readers, this essay is on the future of marketplaces. We answer, emphatically, yes!

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