The Review by First Round

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Before founding Upstart, Dave was President of Google Enterprise, and spent 8 years building Google's billion dollar cloud apps business. Here at First Round, we first came to know Dave when we invested in Upstart’s seed round back in 2012, and we’ve found him to be one of the most tenacious and focused founders we’ve ever backed.

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UX Studio: Product Management

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Sacramento web design services for startups and enterprises How much does it cost to work with web design companies in Sacramento? Since 2012, Jives Media has been serving early-stage startups and Fortune 500 companies worldwide and helped them meet their marketing objectives. How to choose the best Sacramento web design company?

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Six months after the release in September 2012, the company had to shut down the game servers and admit it couldn’t compete with other online RPGs that already had sustainably growing fan communities and profits. by setting up processes, strategy and frameworks?—?as Instead, it was an MMORPG called Glitch.

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ProductBoard

DECEMBER 4, 2017

And when Candy Crush launched in 2012, it took them a mere 15 months to reach that benchmark of 100 million users. Will you work to support the more stringent requirements of enterprise customers or target SMBs instead? After its launch, it took Facebook only five years to do the same. What’s my point?

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Atlassian

JANUARY 27, 2022

Wins for enterprise customers. Cloud Enterprise editions of our products now meet some of the most stringent compliance standards in the world, including those of the European Banking Authority (EBA) and Germany’s Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht (BaFin). Forrester Wave, Enterprise Service Management Q4 2021.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 27, 2025

Unlike traditional employees who often work within established frameworks, serial innovators approach challenges with a fundamentally different mindset. While processes alone don’t guarantee breakthrough innovations, they provide essential frameworks for structured thinking and exploration.

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UX Studio

MARCH 11, 2024

And when I finished it in 2012, that’s when I started, maybe it came to India a bit later. Are there frameworks out there? You know, like, do you have a framework for giving feedback? So, yeah, Karthik: So there’s no framework as such, like, okay, after two years, you need to start explore, expanding your skill set.

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Andrew Chen

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

If you look at Google Trends, you’ll see that “growth hacking” all of a sudden became a term people in the industry were interested, and were searching for, in 2012. In the past few years, over 1500+ folks have attended the program from almost every company in the Bay Area and many F500 enterprises as well. There’s a reason for that.

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Brian Balfour

AUGUST 3, 2017

This is part five in a series about 4 Frameworks To Grow To $100M+. Marketo Their market is the enterprise. 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). Subscribe to get the rest of the series.

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Andrew Chen

MAY 28, 2019

In the years following the release of Apple’s podcast app in 2012, smartphones pulled ahead of computers for podcast consumption and have grown to become the dominant way that consumers listen to podcasts. Since Apple launched its Podcasts app in 2012, smartphones have quickly grown to become the most common device for podcast consumption.

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Andrew Chen

MAY 28, 2019

In the years following the release of Apple’s podcast app in 2012, smartphones pulled ahead of computers for podcast consumption and have grown to become the dominant way that consumers listen to podcasts. Since Apple launched its Podcasts app in 2012, smartphones have quickly grown to become the most common device for podcast consumption.

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Lenny Rachitsky

MARCH 23, 2025

Prior to Superhuman, Rahul founded Rapportive, the first Gmail plug-in to scale to millions of users, which he sold to LinkedIn in 2012. The “Single Decisive Reason” framework for making better decisions by avoiding collections of weak justifications.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 28, 2025

You’ll also learn about a framework I now encourage every founder to use—and that Jake used himself to create Google Meet: the Founding Hypothesis. Jake and his co-author John Zeratsky are sharing their new sprint method, the Foundation Sprint , for the first time ever, in this newsletter.

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