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The decade software ate the world

Intercom, Inc.

It was in August 2011 that Marc Andreessen coined the famous phrase “ Software is eating the world ” in a Wall Street Journal op-ed. Apple survived the death of Steve Jobs in October 2011 under the thoughtful stewardship of Tim Cook, and continued to essentially be the iPhone company, while branching into wearables and services.

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Tech proposes, Market disposes

The Product Coalition

As the founder of a young startup in times of high economic uncertainty, I have found myself thinking again about what makes a successful product, and what makes them fail. All of these products had a huge Total Addressable Market (TAM), and were clearly Feasible, but failed to differentiate themselves in any meaningful way.

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Why Most Companies Fail At Moving Up or Down Market

Brian Balfour

As a result they've differentiated their product on the things that enterprise customers care about: customization, security, and scale (that's their Market Product Fit). As a result they've differentiated their product on “All In One” since thats what mid-market customers care about. Marketo Their market is the enterprise.

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Customer Development Guide For Product Managers

The Product Coalition

It was launched in 2011 and went broke in 2013 because people didn’t buy the product. It precisely describes the core of the concept and partly explains the startup curve model. but, oddly, a great many startups and long-standing companies skip this step. Ever heard of Everpix? How about Google Wave? Well, it’s not surprising?—?the

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Intercom on Product: One for the roadmap

Intercom, Inc.

If you’re setting out on your roadmap journey it’s important that it reflect the point of the journey that you’re on – having everyone in a startup of 5 or 6 sharing daily tasks each morning makes sense as they work together to build a feature but in a larger company it’s a recipe for chaos. Paul: No comments.

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Intercom on Product: One for the roadmap

Intercom, Inc.

If you’re setting out on your roadmap journey it’s important that it reflect the point of the journey that you’re on – having everyone in a startup of 5 or 6 sharing daily tasks each morning makes sense as they work together to build a feature but in a larger company it’s a recipe for chaos. Paul: No comments.

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

Intercom, Inc.

This is Season Two of Scale , Intercom’s podcast series on moving from startup to scale-up. Turning a sales objection into a unique differentiator. Rather than shying away from the marketplace, she embraced it as Udemy for Business’ unique differentiator. Yvonne swiftly flipped this story on its head.