Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 22, 2018

million round of venture funding from First Round Capital and others, scaled the team, got somewhat of product/market fit, but ended up selling early to TaskRabbit. Upon joining that team, I led online marketing and user acquisition growth for about a year. Adam: Did Thumbtack also reach product/market fit faster?

Analytic Tools

Userpilot

MARCH 25, 2022

A continuous message testing process is essential for getting the most out of your product marketing efforts. The goal is to ensure that all of your target customers have a clear understanding of your product, brand, and services you offer. This LIFT model was created in 2009 by Chris Howard. The LIFT Model.

User Testing

Sachin Rekhi

DECEMBER 26, 2019

What I came to realize is that this blog had it's humble beginning in 2009, meaning I've now been writing for over a decade! In that past decade, I've authored 150 essays , mostly sharing everything I've learned about product management and entrepreneurship throughout my career in Silicon Valley. quite the opposite.

User Testing

Userpilot

JANUARY 7, 2021

The same applies to gamifying user onboarding and product adoption. FourSquare is a product example that utilized rewards and rivalry to gamify its user experience and nudge the users to use the app more often. The company exploded in 2009 around the premise of rewarding users points for each new place they visited. Wonder why?

Onboarding KPIs

Bain Public

JUNE 19, 2019

(Montreal, Canada) - Paul Ortchanian, Founder, CEO, Head of Product, Data and Strategy of Bain Public, will be giving a 120 minute workshop at Agile Testing Days in Potsdam, Germany. Paul Ortchanian’s workshop will focus on the topic of generating a Product Roadmap with a focus on AI Products.

User Testing

Radical Product

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

By now, we all know the “right” approach for building a product: Build : Launch a focused, early version of the product Measure : Gather feedback from the market Learn : Make iterative, incremental changes based on feedback Scale : Achieve product-market fit and scale up Once we hit step 4, we’ve officially achieved product nirvana?—?after

User Testing

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

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. Tell me, though, what’s the underlying product strategy at play here? Some people saw this as crazy. I saw this as our strategic strength. I absolutely love it.

Feedback Software

Business of Software Conference

JULY 26, 2016

Rahul Vohra: The Product-Market Fit Engine. Claire Suellentrop: Get Out Of The Echo Chamber: How To Use JTBD To Perfect Your Product’s Messaging. Des Traynor: Product Strategy is About Saying “No” Revisited. Dharmesh Shah: Strategies for Building Great Companies. Talks from BoS USA 2009.

Weak Development Team

Business of Software Conference

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

2:44 James Avery, Kevel: And this around 2009 I started the company that became Adzerk right around when I went to my first business of software in San Francisco. Fundraising Strategy and Process. But there’s plenty of land grabs, and all sorts of other strategies. But what’s the general strategy?

Feedback Software

Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

And so when that plane landed on the Hudson River back in 2009, the news broke on our website called TweetMeme. I think the main thing was… what is it they say, often tactics drives strategy? The short answer to the question is tactics drive strategy. We didn’t start with this proposition.

Customer Experience

Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Making the iPod Windows-compatible and launching iTunes helped the product bridge the chasm shown in Figure 1, achieve product-market fit, and enter the growth stage in 2004. [2] In 2009, sales started to decline. 3] But that’s not the only way the life of a product can unfold.

Product Strategy

Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 28, 2025

The Stockholm solution In January 2009, I took a weeklong business trip to Stockholm. We wanted to come up with the perfect strategy to get the rest of the company excited. In January 2009, Google announced it was closing its offices in Trondheim, Norway, and Lulea, Sweden. And we still didn’t have a coherent strategy.

Differentiation