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The decade software ate the world

Intercom, Inc.

To give some perspective, there were about 300 million smartphones sold in 2010. And then there’s messaging. Consider WhatsApp, founded in 2009 and now hosting more than 65 billion messages every day. In China, WeChat, which launched in 2011, sends about 45 billion messages every day. There are about 3.2

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Startups are cheaper to build, but more expensive to grow – here’s why

Andrew Chen

Startups should be getting cheaper to build. Some providers, such as Microsoft, have started providing their services free to startups, in the hope of turning them into paying customers as they grow. Instead, startups are raising more capital and burning more capital to get to their Series As. AWS instead of your own datacenter.

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Kinzen’s CEO Mark Little on the fight against disinformation

Intercom, Inc.

In 2010, after noticing how young people were using social media to report what was happening, he founded Storyful, the world’s first social media newswire that combined a traditional news agency with authenticated user-generated content. I didn’t have a desire to do another startup. That’s the worst that can happen.

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BoS Conf Fall Reading & Watching List

Business of Software Conference

BoS USA 2010 | 7 mins. Matt Wensing 1 Startup in 10 years vs 1,000 in 10 minutes. Bridget Harris The buskers guide to running a tech startup. Claire Suellentrop How to use JTBD to perfect your product’s messageing. Patrick McKenzie Hello Ladies! Marketing to Minorities. BoS USA 2018 | 8 mins. BoS USA 2013 | 55 mins.

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A decade in the making: An oral history of Intercom’s first 10 years

Intercom, Inc.

Join us as we recall the initial aha moment, the early startup missteps, and the major milestones that have marked our first 10 years. Eoghan McCabe: Around 2010, near the end of the growth curve for the world wide web, connecting with businesses online as a consumer started to make for a pretty crappy, spammy, and transactional experience.

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

Andrew Chen

It’s the story of how messaging apps, marketplaces, workplace collaboration tools, multiplayer games, all share a common thread of being products that connect people with each other. My book aims to change that, systematically laying out concepts for startups and folks launching new products to consider. This all created trust.

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The Three True-North Metrics that Your Product and Business Need

The Product Coalition

It’s far easier to acquire and retain customers with high value products, you can charge more for them, and you’ll likely need to spend less on promotion (Google famously ran its first TV ad for Google Search in 2010, 12 years after the product was launched). Each message sent is therefore an increment of value. Barcelona?

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