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From marketplace to SaaS business: How Udemy acquired 80% of the Fortune 100

Intercom, Inc.

Turning a sales objection into a unique differentiator. When Eren Bali founded Udemy in 2010, he had a vision for what the marketplace would be: a place where anyone could teach and learn anything. Rather than shying away from the marketplace, she embraced it as Udemy for Business’ unique differentiator.

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The Evolution of Netflix

The Product Coalition

By 2010, Netflix’s streaming service had grown to over 20 million subscribers ², signaling a seismic shift in the entertainment industry. As streaming gained popularity, Netflix began offering standalone streaming subscriptions in 2010, introducing tiered pricing plans to accommodate different user needs and preferences.

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Applying the ‘Target Customer Scenario Canvas’ to Cross the Chasm

The Product Coalition

As Kim Garst states in her quote, the fundamental principle to win first reference customers in the mainstream market is to target a specific niche market as your point of attack and focus all your resources on achieving the dominant leadership position in that segment as quickly as possible. Marketing Success Through Differentiation?—?of

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Finding Product-Market Fit – Expert Advice From Prowly’s CEO Joanna Drabent

Userpilot

Joanna founded and ran the Kolko PR agency from 2010 to 2016 where she noticed there was a need to automate the PR processes and there was no tool on the market to make that possible. Going global was difficult for Prowly, but after a year and a half, they found that their differentiating factor was catering to SMBs rather than enterprises.

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The future of learning: Meet the edtech companies leading the way

Intercom, Inc.

This was all the way back in 2010. And one of the things I got very wrong was that, in 2010, I thought the road of educational systems in the United States was going one-to-one, one device to every student. It was now possible that in 2010 or 2011, we would get iPads, and soon after, Chromebooks.

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He helped shape WallStreetBets. Now Kevin Xu is betting on his own social app.

Mixpanel

So I revived one of my old Reddit accounts I made back in 2010, Sir Jack, to post something like, “Here’s my 20x gains in four months.” But if you’re going to build a differentiating social network, it really has to be at least a 10x or 20x differentiator. I thought to myself, “I can one-up that.”

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The pitfalls of being data-driven

Mixpanel

Speaking about the rollout in 2010, Facebook executive Adam Mosseri said his team stuck to their guns because their experience and intuition told them that it was a good strategy – even in the absence of supporting data, and with a backlash from users. Has there been positive or negative user feedback for your product?