Sachin Rekhi

MAY 7, 2022

The Lean Startup methodology, first described in 2008 by Eric Ries, has taken the startup world by storm. His 2011 book, The Lean Startup , has become a New York Times best seller, selling millions of copies to aspirational entrepreneurs. Origin of Lean Thinking. Thiel starts by sharing the origin story of lean thinking.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 20, 2018

As Intercom’s customer base moved upmarket, it became increasingly obvious to us in Sales that what worked well in our product for early-stage startups didn’t for larger companies. In 2011 Marc Andreessen declared that software is eating the world. Where does sales fit in at a company driven by product strategy?

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Before joining Rabbit, Amanda was Chief Data & Strategy Officer at HotelTonight, the leading mobile app for last-minute hotel bookings, where she led data analytics, corporate strategy, and data engineering to create and execute data-driven growth strategies. by Jonny Schneider, Head of Product Strategy and Design.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 19, 2023

I even remember that after the successful IPO in 2011, I told my husband that this was the first time that I felt my stock options and their value were truly related to the work I did. Level 3: Deciding What to Draw When I joined Twiggle — a seed stage startup — as the VP of Product, I thought I was extremely ready.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

… And what that means for startups and innovators today [We were] just sentient puppets on God’s stage: indeed, our taskmaster was merciless, merciless, so long as our bruised feet could stagger forward on the road … so very brief and sore was life with us. Startups, though, are vaporous?—?they Lawrence (i.e.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 15, 2019

Even the best thought-out plans must be routinely tested & tweaked to retrofit strategy to reality. 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 little details, learnings, and iterations?—?that

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UX Studio: Product Management

JULY 12, 2021

They are a unique and fun team of professionals with expertise in digital strategy, website and eCommerce design , and creating brand identity. . They follow a three-step process when creating their solutions: Firstly, they focus on strategy by carrying out competitive research, user research, or growth roadmapping.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 16, 2017

Previously, Fraser was Director of Innovation and Transformation at Pivotal and she has founded and served as CEO for several startups, including Luxr, an early Lean Startup firm, and Adaptive Path, the world’s first User Experience firm. Dave Wascha, CPO Photobox. Nate Walkingshaw, Author and CXO Pluralsight.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

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. It can be introduced at any stage of creation, as customer development strategies neither require huge resources nor interfere with other processes.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 18, 2017

Previously, Fraser was Director of Innovation and Transformation at Pivotal and she has founded and served as CEO for several startups, including Luxr, an early Lean Startup firm, and Adaptive Path, the world’s first User Experience firm. Caitlin Kalinowski, Head of Product Design Engineering, Oculus.

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UX Studio: Product Management

DECEMBER 7, 2022

AJ Davis, a user experience strategy expert, founded Experiment Zone in 2017 in Austin, Texas. Before starting the UX research company, she led optimization strategy projects and was the lead UX researcher on the Google Optimize product. . Conversion Strategy & Testing. Product Vision & Strategy. Website Audit.

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UX Studio: Product Management

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Apart from working with established brands and startups, we assess the expertise of various companies and create our independent rating list of trustworthy design companies. At UX studio, we work with rising startups and established enterprises worldwide. It offers product strategy, design, and development services.

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Arpit Rai

OCTOBER 29, 2019

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. Work pro-bono part-time for 10–15 hours a week for an early-stage startup on their product. Seeing a long list of Indian SaaS startups as you can see in this blog post makes me very happy.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 1, 2018

Intercom has grown like a weed since I’ve been involved, which is August 15, 2011, our incorporation date. The biggest thing I find myself beating into the heads of either startups who I chat with or new folks who start at Intercom is this idea that if you’re doing things right, you’re going to ship a lot.

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 29, 2019

Wade Foster and his co-founder started Zapier (it rhymes with ‘happier’) back in 2011 during a hackathon. Tendayi Viki works with entrepreneurs in startups and large corporates who are looking to innovate. What did he learn? Watch Peldi's Talk. Now, the company has over 160 employees and no office. Watch Tom's Talk. Innovation is hard.

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Arpit Rai

OCTOBER 29, 2019

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. Work pro-bono part-time for 10–15 hours a week for an early-stage startup on their product. Seeing a long list of Indian SaaS startups as you can see in this blog post makes me very happy.

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Brian Balfour

AUGUST 3, 2017

Plenty of startups try to attack all three tiers of the market with the same product/channel/model. You Can't Think About the Fits in Isolation Startups are commonly instructed to just focus on product market fit in the early days. In the world of startups with constrained resources, proving them all at once is impossible.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

In this webinar, Robi Ganguly, CEO and Co-Founder, Apptentive and Ben Johnson, VP Mobile Strategy, Rightpoint will cover the essentials to have in place both pre- and post-launch in order to provide the best customer experience possible. How do you determine what is and isn’t working? How do you know what your customers need and want?

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

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, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

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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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Scrum’s Achilles Heel: Product Discovery In the attempt to fill Scrum’s product discovery void, product delivery organizations regularly turn to other agile frameworks like lean UX, jobs-to-be-done, lean startup, design thinking, design sprint?—?just just to name a few. software is eating the world?—?, Read More : (1) Daniel Pink: Drive. (2)

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

How did Amazon’s product strategy fare during the pandemic? Short answer: Amazon’s product strategy example lead the way). Amazon’s product strategy example has rewritten the book on convenience, easy access, and speed, and in doing so, embedded itself in the daily lives and routines of consumers.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 26, 2021

Join us as we recall the initial aha moment, the early startup missteps, and the major milestones that have marked our first 10 years. But in 2011, Intercom was only a small group of friends, Eoghan McCabe, Ciaran Lee, David Barrett, and Des Traynor. “I just remember the intensity of actually trying to deliver a startup.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2020

I first heard of Elium , formerly known as Knowledge Plaza, in 2011. I was attending a very small startup event where Gregory Culpin presented the company and its market vision. It appeared that Talentsquare was their “last distraction”. What I Learned From 3.5

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

It might be the same core product, but it’s a completely different strategy. This is Season Two of Scale , Intercom’s podcast series on moving from startup to scale-up. Just look at the world of marketing: there are now more than 7,000 tools , up from a mere 150 in 2011.

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Business of Software Conference

MAY 15, 2019

It was I think the biggest startup in corporate history at the time. If you look at all of the great startups over the last 10 years you know their total valuation including lots of Skype who’ve exited $140bn. So I sat there in November 2011. Everybody needs to have a strategy. SAP $121bn company. So they went.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 25, 2018

Four of us signed the incorporation documents for Intercom Inc, in August 2011. Fun fact: do you know what one of the majors causes of startup failure is? Rare is the startup advice that survives first contact with reality. Startups do to the relationship between the founders what a dog does to a sock.” – Paul Graham.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 29, 2020

In this very special episode of Inside Intercom, I sat down with Des, our co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer, for a wide-ranging conversation about our respective journeys so far, our thoughts on Intercom through the years, and what the future holds. And so after a few more years doing that, I left and joined a startup.

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Userpilot

JULY 6, 2021

Consider your level of funding and chosen marketing strategy to determine the ideal time to build a team. What’s your main marketing strategy? This diversified approach is necessary for startups and even advantageous in some situations since it keeps the team agile. Is your SaaS sales-led or product-led?

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 25, 2019

And this idea of “not now” is really powerful, because saying no is really critical to any kind of product strategy and product execution. But obviously you and I are involved in different ways at times to check in and ensure we’re aligned on company strategy. Des: For us in the years of circa 2011 through 2019 or whatever, right?

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Balsamiq

APRIL 23, 2018

First off, they created the User Centered Design Canvas , a powerful tool for analyzing product/market fit, value proposition, brand strategy, and more in a single document. With incremental data-driven improvements we provide predictable and safe UX changes to the products, incorporating companies’ legacies into their product strategies.

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 26, 2016

Matt Wensing: 1 Startup In 10 Years vs 1,000 Startups in 10 Minutes. Nilan Peiris: Building A High-Growth Startup Sustainably. Eric Ries: The Startup Way. Jon Reynolds: Riding the Swiftkey Rocket Ship from Startup to Acquisition. Why My Second Startup is Different. Rahul Vohra: The Product-Market Fit Engine.

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svpg

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

So when Microsoft released the most "full-featured word processor ever for the Mac" that crawled on their Macs -- we're talking literally two minutes to startup-- the community immediately started posting in newsgroups that Microsoft was actually trying to "kill the Mac.". The title is not important; the work they do is.

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Culture in action: symbols and strategies (1986) and quoting: culture influences action not by providing the ultimate values toward which action is oriented but by shaping a repertoire or ‘tool-kit’ of habits, skills, and styles. Designers may be hesitant to adopt new methods without clear evidence of their efficacy.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 19, 2019

When it comes to platform strategy, Ceci’s experience is unparalleled, having worked at Box as part of their founding platform team before later joining Slack in 2015 to found the platform marketing team there. Another thing, when I first started, was to create a launch strategy and to create the story of our platform while we have it.

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Balsamiq

APRIL 23, 2018

First off, they created the User Centered Design Canvas , a powerful tool for analyzing product/market fit, value proposition, brand strategy, and more in a single document. With incremental data-driven improvements we provide predictable and safe UX changes to the products, incorporating companies’ legacies into their product strategies.

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UX Studio: Product Management

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

A San Diego-based UX design agency, Telepathy originally started as a web design firm in 2011 and later became a UX agency. HBO and T-mobile count among UX studio’s best-known clients, but we have also worked with dozens of fast-growing startups. We also define our company strategy and future goals together. Ideo website.

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