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The Evolution of WhatsApp

The Product Coalition

Transforming communication with instant messaging. Its journey from a modest messaging app to a global giant in instant messaging has been nothing short of remarkable. They wanted to create an app that would allow users to send text messages, images, videos, and other media, without the need for expensive SMS plans.

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457: The right way to apply Kickbox to unleash innovation in your organization – with Ralph Hartmeier

Product Innovation Educators

Around 2013, a serial entrepreneur named Mark Randall sold his startup to Adobe and joined Adobe. He realized innovation in a big corporation such as Adobe looks very different from innovation in a startup. It’s important to spread the message that not every idea is good and not every idea needs to be good.

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A crash course on comms for founders — Nairi Hourdajian’s early-stage advice from Figma & Uber

The Review by First Round

In 2013, she became Uber’s first communications person and spent the next 3 years building out the function. Our conversation focuses on what a great communications strategy looks like at early-stage startups. In 2013, she became Uber’s first communications person and spent the next 3 years building out the function.

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How to Leverage AI in SaaS? (+Best Tools)

Userpilot

companies use AI in their operations and the number of jobs requiring AI has increased by 450% since 2013. In 2023, over 26% of investments in American startups were directed toward AI-related companies. So you can drive account expansion with messages targeted at the right audience. About 73% of U.S.

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BoS Conf Fall Reading & Watching List

Business of Software Conference

Matt Wensing 1 Startup in 10 years vs 1,000 in 10 minutes. BoS USA 2013 | 55 mins. Bridget Harris The buskers guide to running a tech startup. Claire Suellentrop How to use JTBD to perfect your product’s messageing. BoS USA 2010 | 7 mins. BoS USA 2018 | 8 mins. Radhika Dutt Radical Product Thinking.

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The Little Things

The Product Coalition

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 lean startup method , once admittedly and unwisely elevated to “necessary and sufficient” status (it’s merely necessary, not singularly sufficient?—?more

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Consumer startups are awesome, and here’s what I’m looking for at a16z (70 slide deck)

Andrew Chen

Dear readers, I’m often asked- so what kind of startups are you investing in at Andreessen Horowitz? The most exciting new technologies coming around the corner, and how to evaluate them for producing new startups. This is such an indirect way for Google to tell their message, and to engage us in their products.