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Startup marketing: strategies for year one

Intercom, Inc.

The most important tasks for any early stage startup are to write code and talk to users. About 50 percent of my time was spent communicating with potential users, whether that was asking them to try Intercom over email, meeting them at conferences, responding to them in blog comments or talking to them on Hacker News. Absolutely not.

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The Evolution of WhatsApp

The Product Coalition

link] Let's talk business Strategic Changes WhatsApp’s journey has been marked by strategic changes aimed at enhancing its value proposition and market position. In 2011, Sequoia Capital , a well-established venture capital firm, made a pivotal investment of $8 million in a young messaging app — WhatsApp.

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Bootstrapping To 10 Million – The Story Of Kovai.co

Userpilot

Several recognitions, including The Economic Times Startup Award as the 2021 Bootstrap Champ. started as BizTalk 360 in June 2011. By leveraging content marketing and a solid professional network, Saravana Kumar grew the company from 0 to 250 customers. …and the train isn’t slowing down any time soon.

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15 Fun Facts About btrax

freshtrax

From internship to startup. Before btrax Japan opened, a few eager Japanese entrepreneurs and students joined btrax in San Francisco to gain experience working for a startup in Silicon Valley. btrax has organized multiple startup events since 2010 including Japan Night and Asian Night to foster entrepreneurs from overseas.

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Don’t Miss These Speakers at #mtpcon San Francisco

Mind the Product

He is the co-author of the New York Times bestseller, The Lean Entrepreneur and has over 20 years experience helping companies bring high-growth products to market. His startup career includes Tumbleweed, Timestamp, WildPackets, inCode, and many others. Leisa tweets at @leisa and occasionally blogs at disambiguity.com.

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The Little Things

The Product Coalition

Many of these will surely make for good investments (have made some myself), but, as explained below, their effect on the startup zeitgeist at large concerns me. The lean startup method , once admittedly and unwisely elevated to “necessary and sufficient” status (it’s merely necessary, not singularly sufficient?—?more

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My AMA on NextBigWhat

Arpit Rai

I just realized that I had not cross-posted my responses on the AMA on my Medium blog. Back in 2011–12, I wanted to create products that would help solve the problems I was facing or that my friends were facing. back in 2011–12. Lastly, B2C seems to be a winner take-all market. How did you get into product management?