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

The Product Coalition

Changes in fundraising Entrepreneurs expect to see private financing decreased, at least slightly, as it happened during economic downturns in 2001 and 2009. However, as we could see it during the global economic crisis in 2008–2009, the numbers of angel investors may not go down but remain the same or even increase.

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Matt LeMay: A Conversation About Clarity

Mind the Product

Start With Specifics, not the Vision. There’s always a wish to start with vision, but that to me is dangerously unconstrained, and unbounded. The most meaningful misalignments are just as likely to emerge from the way the product vision is communicated as they are from the vision itself. Clarity Over Comfort.

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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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The “Why” Behind Your Product Roadmap

bpma ProductHub

has a strategy tool that allows users to clearly define the vision; the “why” to your product roadmap. Business Strategy vs. Product Strategy, Matt Cagan, April 10, 2009. There is an emerging set of tools to do this and make the linkage between the roadmap, objectives, and strategy more visible to employees. product/features/strategy.

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What Basecamp’s implosion teaches us about organizational culture

Radical Product

First, some background As reported in The Verge , some customer service representatives at Basecamp had kept a controversial list of “funny names” since 2009 that was both inappropriate and racist. Start with a clear vision for a culture that works for all Diversity is not a vision. You can treat culture as a radical product?—?it

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Technical Debt and Product Success

Roman Pichler

Apple did this with Mac OS X Snow Leopard , which was released in 2009 after nearly two years of work. Whenever you face a significant amount of tech debt that constitutes a barrier to innovation, you should opt for a dedicated period to remove it.