Good Product Manager

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

Recap in Tweets: Product Management Festival 2014. " - @uhrenbacher #PMF14 #prodmgmt #startups. — Jeff Lash (@jefflash) September 17, 2014. — Jeff Lash (@jefflash) September 17, 2014. — Michael Smith (@myksmith) September 17, 2014. — Jeff Lash (@jefflash) September 17, 2014.

Product Research

Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

This is a natural evolution for many SaaS tools as they move towards a healthier economic model, as captured in Christoph Janz’s seminal 2014 blog. During a conversation on the Intercom on Product podcast , Des Traynor and Paul Adams discussed the competition between startups and incumbents. Whoever does it fastest will win.

Feedback Software

Arkenea

JANUARY 13, 2025

The one thing startup accelerators don’t ensure is success of your startup. DropBox, AirBnB and Quora – all these companies went through a startup accelerator program. But applying for an accelerator program is a major decision for any startup; and there are some distinct pros and cons. 100-120K of funding.

Weak Development Team

The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 25, 2020

Today, businesses starting from small startups to large enterprises create 2D animated commercials and explainer videos to boost their marketing campaigns. Since 2009, the company has served many SMBs, startups, and big businesses with a single purpose?—?to The 2D animation may help you do it more effectively.

Airlines

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 16, 2020

In 2014, the company smashed expectations, earning $105 million in revenue – double what they had taken in the year before. Few recent startups talk about themselves in these terms, but Shopify aims to become a 100-year company.

Reporting Tools

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. To fix it, we had to change how we worked with our product team.

Feedback Software

Sachin Rekhi

JANUARY 22, 2019

I've had the opportunity to mentor a breadth of product managers through the years as well as entrepreneurs through my work as an advisor to early-stage startups. And in doing so I've spent countless hours working through product challenges, startup challenges, and everything in between. I noticed it as soon as you walked in.

Feedback Software

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 1, 2018

To bring us up to early 2014, you might be familiar with Product Hunt. 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. There is a lot to it.

Customer Experience

Mind the Product

JULY 1, 2019

Often, startups like to say “there is no competition”, but it is rarely true in practice – customers almost always have a credible alternative (even if it’s “do nothing”). <What’s If your product disappeared tomorrow, what would your customers use to fill the gap? Generating Additional Questions.

User Testing

The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 5, 2021

We’re first-timers on Product Hunt, although we had used the site since 2014 yet we had never submitted a product. We made a directory with 150+ Websites to promote your Startup or Side Project and made total sense to post there. Preparing for the launch ?? We didn’t want to launch Product Gears right away.

Feedback Software

freshtrax

AUGUST 3, 2021

Gender gap in various industries has been a topic of discussion with there being a huge gap in the percentage of women who are startup entrepreneurs. This is especially true in Japan, where the gender gap in the startup community is even wider than the U.S. The startup world is completely male dominated. tomochinski.

Research Software

Mind the Product

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Nilan also advises a number of early-stage startups. Nicholas also plays a role in evolving tech, as an advisor to a number of promising startups. He is also mentors startups in a number of accelerators in Europe, giving him a chance to help out entrepreneurs while keeping up-to-date with market developments.

Analytic Tools

The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Product School was founded in 2014, from a small coworking space in San Francisco. Some have already pledged a complete shift to remote-first, and it’s something that many new startups will consider as a cost-cutting effort. The global product community started getting the recognition it deserved.

Reporting Tools

freshtrax

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Although the amount of investment in startups has begun to decrease in 2023 due to the declining macro environment, a large amount of funding was raised between 2021 and 2022. In this issue, we will take a look at startups in the climate-tech market from the United States. Five Climate Tech Startups from the U.S.

Technical Review

The Product Coalition

MARCH 22, 2021

In the startup world, making software user-friendly and easy to use has become a real trend lately. Purrweb’s main goal as a UI/UX design agency is to help startups quickly, but without any loss of quality, create mobile apps, websites, or desktop apps. So, it’s no wonder that they provide a discount to the startups they believe in.

UX

The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Let’s consider the benefits of MVP development : MVPs Allow Businesses to Test Ideas In Markets In 2014, Hailo mobile app for calling a taxi failed. MVPs Save Time And Money In 2022, the Protonn business startup platform closed after 6 months of operation.

User Testing

Lenny Rachitsky

APRIL 11, 2024

Prior to Dropbox, Todd led product management for Twitter’s Content and Discovery teams after selling his startup, Cover, to Twitter in 2014. Before moving into venture capital, he played a crucial role as VP of Product and Design at Dropbox, guiding the company until its IPO in 2018.

User Testing

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 26, 2018

Adam: In the years that have passed since the book originally came out in 2014, how has your thinking about habits evolved? There haven’t been any changes since the book came out in 2014. But now we use startup methodologies: we talk to customers and listen to what they say. There’s a greater awareness now that this is for real.

User Testing

The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 14, 2019

S-PRO Headquarters: Kyiv, Ukraine Founded in: 2014 Employees: 150+ Minimum project size: $25 000 Hourly rates: $25–49 Contact details: hi@s-pro.io Since 2014, the company has been a trusted partner for more than 50 startups and global brands like Pepsi, Vimeo, Barbarian, etc.

Analytic Tools

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 8, 2019

“In early startup life, it’s great to have remote folks who are around the world for the follow-the-sun model” I became one of the first support people at Twitter, working part-time, remotely, from New Zealand. From Twitter, I ended up going to Slack in 2014, about six months after it launched.

Customer Experience

The Accidental Product Manager

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

So way back in 2014, the folks over at Facebook shelled out US$22B to buy the startup app maker WhatsApp. Its popularity made it an attractive investment opportunity for Facebook who purchased the company in 2014 for a great deal of money. This is why Facebook was willing to spend $22B to purchase the company in 2014.

Product Manager

The Product Coalition

APRIL 3, 2023

By understanding the basics of Scrum and how it works in practice, you can get started on your own Agile journey as a product manager. Citations: Schwaber, K. Scrum guide. Sutherland, J. Scrum: The art of doing twice the work in half the time. Crown Business. You can also check out this course on Coursera to learn more about the Agile process.

Agile

Innovatemap

JANUARY 26, 2021

The agency serves high-growth SaaS startups and scaleups through excellence in product management, product marketing, product design, and brand. The growth is in direct correlation to the accelerated trend of startups and scaleups investing in a stronger digital presence for their brand and for product-led growth strategies.

Research Software

freshtrax

AUGUST 6, 2019

From internship to startup. Before btrax Japan opened, a few eager Japanese entrepreneurs and students joined btrax in San Francisco to gain experience working for a startup in Silicon Valley. btrax has organized multiple startup events since 2010 including Japan Night and Asian Night to foster entrepreneurs from overseas.

User Testing

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.

Weak Development Team

UX Planet

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Despite the flourishing landscape of fintech startups in recent years, competing against established giants in the banking sector remains a formidable challenge.

Customer Experience

Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 25, 2017

I worked on this project in 2008 when it was a startup company. By 2014 they were very successful, growing at 50% year. It is one of the most popular devices for diabetics. It uses Bluetooth to connect to smartphones and provides constant monitoring. The volume of the product had increased to millions per year.

Product Manager

Mind the Product

MAY 25, 2018

This forced us to think and act more like a startup, with JustGiving’s CEO in the role of angel investor – and we knew funding would be cut if we didn’t produce results. 2014 – Testing and Growing the Team. We moved into an office next to the main JustGiving office to foster a sense of separation. The Yimby homepage, 2013.

User Testing

The Basics of Product Management

JULY 12, 2020

Roposo was launched in 2014 and has seen a steady growth in popularity since then. This app has also been around since 2014. Every change in the startup or app ecosystem acts as a catalyst for new innovation. Google Play Review Count – ?842,980. Google Play Rating – 4.2. Apple App Store Review Count – 141,886.

Systems Review

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 21, 2022

Along the way, we’ve interviewed trailblazers, business leaders, makers and doers to share their experience and insights on all things startup strategy, product management, design, marketing, customer experience, and much, much more. Here’s Rachel. For Slack, that was clearly the engineering and dev communities, who love new tools.

Download

Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 7, 2018

A UN development report in 2014 noted that there were 28 megacities with over 10 million people whereas in 1990 there were only 10. This means that there are more outliers than under a normal distribution which have more in the middle and less at both ends of the spectrum.

Reporting Tools

Userpilot

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Several recognitions, including The Economic Times Startup Award as the 2021 Bootstrap Champ. In 2013/2014, the company began scaling rapidly and moved to India to accelerate its growth. “By 2013/2014, I realized there’s a big opportunity in this industry. 2,000+ customers. 5 products. Presently, Kovai.co

Customer Experience

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

In August of 2016, Rachel Hepworth embarked on a unique challenge: start a growth marketing team at one of the most successful startups of this generation – one that had long relied heavily on word of mouth. The role that started me on this path was joining a very small startup a little over a decade ago, Climate Corp.

User Testing

Andrew Chen

JANUARY 9, 2020

Fascinating discussion about what it’s like for a serial entrepreneur to raise money, operate a startup, lessons learned, etc. Why startups are hard – the math of venture capital tells the story. Why startups are hard – the math of venture capital tells the story. Is your startup idea already taken?

User Testing

Andrew Chen

OCTOBER 17, 2017

NYU Professor Aswath Damodaran asserted that Uber was overvalued after a 2014 investment round. Since the 2014 article, Uber has blown past his estimate by 10X, with top line revenues to support it. Two decades after eBay was founded, a similar story unfolded itself, this time over Uber (my current employer!) and the taxi market.

Weak Development Team

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Alex Delivet , one of the protagonists of the Paris startup scene, has experienced this predicament first-hand. While in the early 2010s, the SaaS startup scene in France was not as developed as in the U.S., today there are plenty of VC firms, startup incubators, and events for entrepreneurs. And so I made lots of mistakes.

Technical Review

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 28, 2020

Jonathan, you mentioned Aircall’s original vision and mission back in 2014 when you got started was to reinvent the business phone. Jonathan: Back in 2014, we thought, “Okay, we need to be able to build a phone system that any entrepreneur can use anywhere in the world.”

Customer Experience