The Product Coalition

MAY 7, 2020

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. Flashback to 2009. Turns out, it was.

Research Software

The Product Coalition

MARCH 22, 2021

In the startup world, making software user-friendly and easy to use has become a real trend lately. Purrweb’s main goal as a UI/UX design agency is to help startups quickly, but without any loss of quality, create mobile apps, websites, or desktop apps. So, it’s no wonder that they provide a discount to the startups they believe in.

UX

UX Studio: Product Management

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Our clients are growing startups and established brands like HBO, Google, Netflix, or Wizz air. The Wandr studio is a young product strategy and design company headquartered in Los Angeles, USA. Moreover, the company also helps creative minds build strong businesses by investing in startups. Wandr Studio. Fuzzy Math.

Product Research

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 30, 2018

Both are design partners at GV (launched as Google Ventures in 2009 as the venture capital arm of Alphabet, Inc.), where they help a robust portfolio of startups find their way. I did a little bit of consulting along the way and was also at startup called Wealthfront for a while. I’ve been at GV now for about a year.

Customer Experience

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.

Advertising

UX Planet

APRIL 12, 2024

Typically, and I remember interviewing for these roles in 2009/2010, the hiring manager would typically ask me: would you consider yourself a generalist, or do you specialize in particular field. I personally started using this term for Product Designers, originally when I first worked with Startups (going back to 2014).

Research Software

Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 22, 2018

Adam: You mentioned your startup SkillSlate, which was acquired by TaskRabbit. Adam: Often we’ll see startups build their growth team through a single function, like marketing. What does this idea look like in practice, and what happens to a startup that grows for the wrong reasons? It’s been a lot of fun.

Analytic Tools

The Product Coalition

MAY 6, 2020

Fireart Studio has already delivered more than 700 successful projects for startups and global enterprises, like Google, Rolls Royce, Codio, Atlassian, My Taxi, Bolt, and others. hourly rates: $150–199 Employees: 10–49 Founded: 2009 Headquarters: USA Red Foundry is another app development industry leader. Red Foundry Min.

Research Software

UX Studio: Product Management

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

They merge the mentality of a smaller, independent agency with a major agency’s strategy, creativity, and technology. Together develops digital experiences and supports brand transformations with services including UX & UI Design , Development, Branding, Strategy, and Research. Together . Will Beeching founded Together in 2018.

Research Software

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.

Research Software

Sachin Rekhi

JANUARY 18, 2010

As many of you know, I spent the better half of 2009 as an Entrepreneur -in- Residence at Trinity Ventures. Given that I've spent most of my entrepreneurial career in scrappy startup environments, I developed a valuable new perspective on evaluating opportunities. Venture Funding is not for Every Startup. Seek Leverage.

Weak Development Team

Bain Public

JUNE 17, 2020

Over the last year, through ongoing giving to Canadian accelerators, we’ve contributed over 700 hours of pro bono work for young up and coming startups and entrepreneurs. The standout component is our one-on-one time with the startup founders. Running a startup is not easy work.

Weak Development Team

Sachin Rekhi

DECEMBER 17, 2015

A decade ago Steve Blank authored the book The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products that Win to share with the world his philosophy for building winning products: customer development. In the same decade we've see a significant reduction in the cost of building a technology company. So why is that?

User Testing

The Product Coalition

JULY 17, 2018

On top of that, it offers digital design, development and branding strategy development. Dom & Tom About the agency: Dom & Tom was founded in 2009 by Dominic and Tom Tancredi. Motto: We’re a product agency that helps Fortune 500 companies and next generation startups build the future of digital. Citibank, AIG, and more.

Research Software

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! I ended up putting together a deck with over 70 slides providing a comprehensive overview of each of the core dimensions of product management: vision, strategy, design, and execution. quite the opposite.

User Testing

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. . Since 2009, they have worked with many notable companies such as Netflix, Adobe, Salesforce, Opera, and Avast, just to name a few. The company claims they work with small clients and startups.

Research Software

Userpilot

JANUARY 7, 2021

The company exploded in 2009 around the premise of rewarding users points for each new place they visited. As many companies copied their success since the foursquare boom in 2009, silly titles or badges may have lost some of their initial appeal…but onboarding gamification is still all the rage. Wonder why?

Onboarding KPIs

The Product Cafe

MARCH 22, 2023

💜 Welcome to this week's edition of Product Café, your weekly cup of coffee for everything product management, startups, and more. Following which, to adapt to the recession wave they pivoted to a freemium model in 2009. Hello, all you product-loving folks! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.

ChatGPT

Nulab

JULY 27, 2022

In 2009, two friends founded a company called Airbnb with the aim of providing an alternative to traditional hotel accommodations. We’ve already written a guide to incremental innovation , so for the lowdown on what that is, check out our post. But what about disruptive and radical? Both have crossover, but with a few key differences.

Research Software

Business of Software Conference

JUNE 29, 2020

You can quickly go from strategy to execution and you know exactly what should be done next. Teresa Torres is a Product Coach at ProductTalk.org advocating strong critical thinking practices to ensure there is a strong connection between what teams are learning in their research with the product outcomes that they are making.

User Testing

Mind the Product

DECEMBER 4, 2018

I write a lot about product strategy, and use Netflix as an example so that others can learn from the company’s success and failure. I often highlight that half of Netflix’s high-level product strategies fail in order to help product leaders to understand how hard it is to launch and grow startups.

User Testing

Lenny Rachitsky

APRIL 18, 2024

Prior to YC, he was the co-founder and CEO of imeem (acquired by MySpace in 2009) and the co-founder and CEO of App.net. They possess an unwavering conviction in their startup’s potential, even in the face of daunting obstacles. If your venture struggles and innovative strategies are exhausted, consider pivoting.

Startups

The Product Coalition

MARCH 4, 2024

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.”

Analytic Tools

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2019

He joined me for a chat that ranged from strategies for making design part of a company’s DNA to the lessons we can learn from the human cannonball at a circus. We miss the startup days when we could just make decisions more quickly, and we could react in a more nimble fashion’”. Short on time? Focus on outcomes over output.

UX

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? 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. Then I left Google in 2014 to start Coda.

Feedback Software

The Product Coalition

APRIL 23, 2018

If you run a startup or a small- to mid-size company, you probably can’t justify hiring a full-time chief financial officer (an oft-cited benchmark for when to hire a full-time CFO is annual sales of at least $10 million, but it can be a lot higher for a low-complexity business).

Systems Review

Business of Software Conference

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Cohen starts his presentation by telling a story about how he started blogging in 2009. Here’s the analogy: None of those things are going to make or break the startup either’, he explains. For Cohen and Smart Bear, solving simple problems was a bad strategy. Rule Worth Breaking #1: There are rules to success in business.

Software Review

Business of Software Conference

JULY 6, 2020

Previously, in 2009, he co-founded Evidity, a healthcare data analytics firm serving the physician market. Don’t quit your job, do it part time and work overnight’, ‘you got to iterate and test’ and ‘lean startup! Lean Startup! Lean Startup!’ Why are we doing this – lean startup! Lean Startup!

User Testing

Crafty CTO

OCTOBER 17, 2023

My father passed away in 2009, but his imprint is still palpable there on the lake—nowhere more strongly than on the bookshelves. So, yes, a disruptive startup it was. I was fortunate to be able to spend three weeks at the family lake house in northwestern Michigan in August. John’s an amazing, intuitive, creative cook.

Books

Alchemer Mobile

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Going back to basics to find inspiration has been one way expert product managers adjusted their strategies to meet rapidly-shifting consumer needs. The first 10 books focus solely on product management theory and strategy, while the last 10 books focus on general problem solving and business strategy. by Nir Eyal. by Dan Olsen.

Books

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.

Weak Development Team

Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Tim Barker has established three startups and has seen the ups and downs of the startup journey, from his first business being acquired by Salesforce – where he spent five years in the formative age of cloud computing – to his current company DataSift being acquired by Meltwater in 2018. Tim Barker, CEO, DataSift.

Customer Experience

Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 28, 2025

The Stockholm solution In January 2009, I took a weeklong business trip to Stockholm. We’d met a couple of years earlier, in 2007, when Google bought their startup. We wanted to come up with the perfect strategy to get the rest of the company excited. And we still didn’t have a coherent strategy.

Differentiation