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The 5 Most Watched BoS Talks of the Decade

Business of Software Conference

2010-2019: The 5 Most Watched Talks From Business of Software Conferences. Without Further Ado… 1 // Building The Minimum Badass User – Kathy Sierra (Author, Badass). In her inimitable style, Kathy suggests it’s not about showing users that your company is awesome – it’s about making the users awesome.

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2021 in conversation: Learnings from the podcast

Intercom, Inc.

Throughout the year, we’ve talked to business leaders, experts, and pioneers about all kinds of topics: from creating world-class customer experiences to the challenges of running a business during the pandemic, from being an ally and addressing gaps in diversity to building technical leadership careers. Will Larson , CTO of Calm.

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Best-rated Sacramento Web Design Companies to Work With in 2022

UX Studio: Product Management

Our user experience professionals have already analyzed the expertise of dozens of design agencies in San Francisco, New York, Berlin, London, to name a few. Our independent research ranks design companies based on their portfolio, skills, capabilities, and pricing. Award-winning global user experience design company.

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My top essays/tweetstorms in 2019 on product/market fit, investing, KPIs, YouTubers, and more

Andrew Chen

Magic metrics indicating a startup probably has product/market fit. 3) power user curve showing a smile — with a big concentration of engaged users (you grow out from this strong core). 7) revenue or activity expansion on a *per user* basis over time — indicates deeper engagement / habit formation.

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Growth, Funding, Pivotal Moments and the Evolution of Adzerk to Kevel

Business of Software Conference

3:00 James Avery, Kevel: But yeah, so I started it started back in 2009, it took a little while to get a real customer of the ad network, the software to kind of run display advertising and things like that. And then in 2010, we got our first customer. And so, we kind of fit more with the traditional, like, be round, right?

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Woven CEO Tim Campos on how to spend your most important asset

Intercom, Inc.

Tim has spent his entire professional career focusing on productivity, from Sybase to TLA-Tencor to Facebook where, over his six-year tenure (2010 – 2016), the amount of revenue per employee doubled to $1.8 Tim: I was hired in 2010, when Facebook was what I like to call a “teenage company”. million apiece.

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Solve a Hard Problem (Tinder). Chapter 8 of my upcoming book, The Cold Start Problem

Andrew Chen

.” Here’s how I define each side: There are usually a minority of users that will create disproportionate value and as a result, they will have disproportionate power. For social networks, these are often the content creators that generate the media everyone consumes. This the “Hard Side” of your network.