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A Decade of Product Management

Melissa Perri

Not every company has seen all these changes, but by and large I think it's been a positive push forward and I'm proud of where we've come from and where we have gotten to. -- 2014: "I do not need Product Managers, I can run my company myself,I have the strategy." We've come a long way but we still have far to go. I need them yesterday."

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Product Strategy as a System

Roman Pichler

6] I created the board back in 2011 to offer a simple yet effective way to capture the vision and strategy of a product. The business goals, finally, state the positive impact the product should achieve for the business. Since then, its become one of the most popular product vision and strategy tools.

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Intercom turns 10: Highlights from our first decade

Intercom, Inc.

Sensing an opportunity, they switched their focus and Intercom was born – the app was released in private beta in July and the company was founded in August, 2011. It’s hard to recall now, but before Intercom released the world’s first in-app messenger in 2011, the chat bubble was not a ubiquitous feature of apps or websites.

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Product Experimentation Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them by Jon Noronha

Mind the Product

Jon Noronha joined the product team for Microsoft’s Bing search engine in 2011 when the product, as he puts it, was “in a big hole” As the years went by, however, that turned around, and in late 2015, Microsoft reported that Bing had become profitable. Constantly reevaluate. Experimentation Pitfall #2: Getting Tricked by Statistics.

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What we learned moving sales and product upmarket together

Intercom, Inc.

In 2011 Marc Andreessen declared that software is eating the world. In an ideal world, Product would have a direct line to every customer, but given the scale of our conversations as a growing organization, we leverage our position on the frontline of Sales to add color that might otherwise be missing.

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The Evolution of Github: A Revolution in Code Collaboration

The Product Coalition

In 2011, GitHub unveiled GitHub Pages, a feature that allowed developers to host static websites directly from their repositories. Strategic Changes, Pricing, and Revenue GitHub’s journey has been punctuated by strategic changes aimed at enhancing its value proposition and market position. Furthermore, Hacktoberfest has seen over 2.35

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

Intercom, Inc.

Just look at the world of marketing: there are now more than 7,000 tools , up from a mere 150 in 2011. Here’s Yvonne on Udemy for Business’ unique advantage when it comes to localizing course content: “Because we have this vast marketplace, we’re actually in a really great position to offer local content to local audiences.