Userpilot

MAY 1, 2024

“Localmind” experienced steady growth until Airbnb made an acquisition offer in 2012, which Lenny accepted. Following the acquisition, he transitioned from engineering to the product team , marking a pivotal moment in his career.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 20, 2020

For instance, you cannot take a product to market without the requisite Product Marketing Manager knowledge, and in fact, this is an area I personally want to develop further. If I don’t know whether I want to be a pilot or a product manager in five years’ time, it’s hard to know what skills to develop.

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Userpilot

APRIL 26, 2022

Not including freelancing from his teenage years, Lucjan Suski started programming professionally in the year 2012. It’s true that sometimes innovation is not well-received because the market is not yet ready for it. Userpilot was given expert advice from Prowly’s CEO Joanna Drabent about how to find product-market fit.

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Brian Balfour

JULY 12, 2017

This is part 3 in a series about the growth frameworks companies need to grow to $100M+ Part One: Introduction & Why Product Market Fit Isn't Enough. The Road to a $100M Company Doesn’t Start with Product. Which brings us to part three: Product Channel Fit. One of the reasons were they hit product channel fit.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 15, 2020

People keep talking about product market fit. To me it felt very product-ish and as if we’re saying, “How do we actually help customers make those trade-offs, as opposed to design the ideal product experience, which to be honest doesn’t exist? There’s almost two different worlds colliding. .

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Revulytics

DECEMBER 16, 2019

About the Conference: Mind the Product events are the go-to places for meeting other product managers and honing your product craft. The conference is the best place to find concrete product management advice, and always brings together some of the most forward-thinking, cutting edge voices in product management.

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Modus Create

JULY 2, 2021

In 2012, a competitor entered the market. So founders like to hire a team that can quickly iterate on ideas and find the product-market fit. . When Andrew Wilkinson launched his task management solution Flow, it generated quite a buzz in the Valley. Not Investing in Individual Growth.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 8, 2021

Windows, MSN and later led an engineering team at WordPress.com (2010-2012) responsible for Jetpack, Publicize and other features used by millions of people. . Fresh talks on entrepreneurship, product, marketing, leadership, hiring, and more dropping each week. His first career focused on UX Design. Register to get involved.

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Good Product Manager

DECEMBER 4, 2016

1 “spinoff” site: Ask A Good Product Manager (2008-2012) 1 design (in need of an upgrade/overhaul, I know). Nearly 850,000 sessions. million pages viewed. 200+ posts. 900+ comments. Tickets are still available; use the discount code JEFFVIP (because if you’re reading this, you’re a VIP!)

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Good Product Manager

DECEMBER 4, 2016

1 “spinoff” site: Ask A Good Product Manager (2008-2012) 1 design (in need of an upgrade/overhaul, I know). Nearly 850,000 sessions. million pages viewed. 200+ posts. 900+ comments. Tickets are still available; use the discount code JEFFVIP (because if you’re reading this, you’re a VIP!)

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Indicative

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Product Retention and the Status Quo. The average worldwide retention rate in mobile apps from 2012 – 2019 was less than 35%. This means product teams have to work hard to improve onboarding and engagement to retain customers. We get it – retaining your customers is hard work.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 2, 2021

million customers before being acquired in 2012. Fresh talks on entrepreneurship, product, marketing, leadership, hiring, and more dropping each week. He was then CEO and co-founder of Playfire, the largest social network for gamers, which he grew to 1.5 Video below. Upcoming Events. BoS Conf Online.Spring BoS Conf Online.Fall.

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Userpilot

MAY 19, 2021

The company has built 9 businesses since 2012, ventures that range from music law contracts to artificial intelligence chatbots. To increase awareness, they take advantage of notable Saas influencers like Neil Patel and platforms like Hubspot to increase their organic search presence and website traffic.

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Gainsight

DECEMBER 20, 2020

NDR is often a litmus test for the company’s product-market fit, value proposition, and growth efficiency, all in one. I’ll close with a quote from author Michael Lewis , from his commencement speech at Princeton in 2012: The “Moneyball” story has practical implications.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 25, 2023

I started my own company back in 2012. It was an amazing journey to build a marketing automation-type solution and a company. If you’re an early-stage company, it’s mostly around product-market fit, and you can start with a trial experience and try to figure out what keeps customers in the product and makes them come back.

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The Basics of Product Management

JULY 21, 2020

It is all a question about timing and finding the right product market fit. It was launched with a lot of fanfare in 2012 with commercial availability by mid-2013. Well, yes and no. Yes, smart glasses have been launched before. But, maybe now is the right time to actually start using one. Google Glass.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 5, 2021

The first BoS video I watched was Kathy Sierra’s seminal talk from BoS USA 2012, ‘ Building The Minimum Badass User ’. Fresh talks on entrepreneurship, product, marketing, leadership, hiring, and more dropping each week. Lesson #1 – Make Your Users Awesome. Adios, BoS. Upcoming Events.

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Andrew Chen

JUNE 25, 2019

As the number of homes on Airbnb scaled from around 100,000 in 2012 to over 6 million today, I led teams tackling everything from supply growth, to guest booking conversion, to marketplace quality. product, marketing, engineering, data science, design, content, and finance. What : Run Facebook, Google, Twitter, etc.

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Amplitude

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Today, Merci works as a Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners , investing in early-stage consumer and B2B companies looking to find product-market fit and accelerated growth opportunities. In case you Join us at Amplify to be inspired by Marcelo’s discussion on the creative potential of your product marketing campaigns.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

And Google Wave is a universal communication platform that appeared in 2010 and was closed in 2012, as nobody could understand what it was or how to use it. The authors relied on their intuition or professionalism, and didn’t account for the most important factor in product creation?—?the the product/market fit.

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Andrew Chen

JUNE 25, 2019

As the number of homes on Airbnb scaled from around 100,000 in 2012 to over 6 million today, I led teams tackling everything from supply growth, to guest booking conversion, to marketplace quality. product, marketing, engineering, data science, design, content, and finance. What : Run Facebook, Google, Twitter, etc.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

He was the VP of Product at blogging platform Six Apart, created new media properties and influential content creators as VP Artist Development at Say Media, and then led Product and Design at Twitter from 2012 to 2014. Teresa Torres, Product Discovery Coach. Get your tickets. See you in July!

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 19, 2019

And as the Group Product Marketing Manager for Platform here at Intercom, I’ve loved seeing all the creative apps our partners have built. And that just gives you more product-market fit and helps you grow faster. Again, as I mentioned, this was my job back in 2011, 2012, 2013. They were much more rigorous.

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Lenny Rachitsky

MAY 14, 2024

As Dalton Caldwell (Managing Director at Y Combinator), in his legendary talk on pivoting points out, pivoting is all about opportunity cost: “[Pivoting] gets more shots on goal to try to find this elusive thing [called product-market fit]. million in venture capital investment [that we raised].

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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. As part of that, as folks search for important concepts like “product market fit” and “user growth” – my essays are often on the front page.

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Brian Balfour

AUGUST 3, 2017

The difference between these two are not the common mantras of build a great product, product market fit is the only thing that matters, or growth hacking. Mailchimp is now just moving up to the mid-market with their automation features, and it has been 10+ years. One of the reasons were they hit product channel fit.

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DISQO

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Then we ventured into virtual reality in 2012, and I remember it was Jeff, and four other people in a subreddit trying to figure out what to do with this thing called the Oculus Rift, we were part of the original Kickstarter. Iteration in traditional product marketing is test, scientific method, evaluate, and customer discovery.

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DISQO

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Then we ventured into virtual reality in 2012, and I remember it was Jeff, and four other people in a subreddit trying to figure out what to do with this thing called the Oculus Rift, we were part of the original Kickstarter. Iteration in traditional product marketing is test, scientific method, evaluate, and customer discovery.

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DISQO

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Then we ventured into virtual reality in 2012, and I remember it was Jeff, and four other people in a subreddit trying to figure out what to do with this thing called the Oculus Rift, we were part of the original Kickstarter. Iteration in traditional product marketing is test, scientific method, evaluate, and customer discovery.

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DISQO

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Then we ventured into virtual reality in 2012, and I remember it was Jeff, and four other people in a subreddit trying to figure out what to do with this thing called the Oculus Rift, we were part of the original Kickstarter. So, I had to wait a long time at that party for everybody to show up. With virtual reality, it was also three years.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 29, 2020

We came out of private beta on January 27th, 2012, where we announced that we’d raised a million dollars. I think Intercom ships products at higher quality levels, both in terms of bug qualities, but also in terms of product-market fit, and faster than really most any other company around.

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 26, 2016

Rahul Vohra: The Product-Market Fit Engine. Claire Suellentrop: Get Out Of The Echo Chamber: How To Use JTBD To Perfect Your Product’s Messaging. Unfinished Business… Talks from BoS USA 2012. Matt Wensing: 1 Startup In 10 Years vs 1,000 Startups in 10 Minutes. Isa Watson: Making Workplaces Work For Humans.

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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. Why Rahul restructured his entire executive team to spend 60% to 70% of his time on product, design, and marketing instead of the typical CEO responsibilities.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 28, 2025

Early in our careers, JZ and I had the good fortune to work on products like Gmail, Google Ads, and YouTube, each of which found product-market fit quickly and clicked with customers for the long haul. We re-examined the most successful projects we’ve seen firsthand as designers and investors.

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