2012 Messaging Startups Weak Development Team 
The Product Coalition
FEBRUARY 1, 2022
Pivoting done well means the team doesn’t lose direction and can build on the insights for new product development. The product team discovered that visitors mostly used the video upload feature and stripped down all other features over time. Odeo was a small podcasting startup in 2005.
Mind the Product
MAY 25, 2018
In 2012, when I was working as part of the JustGiving team responsible for innovative products and disruptive business models, we decided to test how people could raise money for non-charitable good causes. 2012 – the Inception. 2012 – the Inception. This is what we did. This is what we did.
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UX Studio
MARCH 11, 2024
I realized that that wasn’t really gonna happen I’m very very bad at competition. And like the warmups and practice, I could see that I was kind of… you can kind of know how good you are on the team [00:04:00] in the warmups. Really anything to do with the wind surfing. Karthik: Yeah. I don’t know.
The Product Coalition
NOVEMBER 7, 2019
The history of Slack, the most widely used workplace messaging app, is often referred to as a classic startup success story. 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.
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. If there’s customer adoption , developers generally will come. Measuring platform success is complicated.
Gainsight
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
A marketing professional may get excited about creating an email campaign through an email software solution, for example, but she will be very excited when they improve their conversion rates after a simple change to the message. It’s not surprising that the first customer trainer at many SaaS startups is the founder of the company.
Intercom, Inc.
OCTOBER 29, 2020
Think about what you could be doing to bring more diversity into your teams and be more inclusive as a company, and go actively out of your way in order to achieve set goals. I usually do them with Paul or people from the product teams – it’s much more fun to be on a podcast with your boss. Be open-minded.
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