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A Primer on Business Strategy From Hamilton Helmer's 7 Powers

Sachin Rekhi

Beyond product/market fit, it turns out business strategy really does matter. A sound strategy can make the difference between our initial product/market fit being ephemeral versus the beginning of a meaningful and lasting business. He then further refined his concepts as a business strategy professor at Stanford University.

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Finding Product-Market Fit – Expert Advice From Prowly’s CEO Joanna Drabent

Userpilot

Joanna founded and ran the Kolko PR agency from 2010 to 2016 where she noticed there was a need to automate the PR processes and there was no tool on the market to make that possible. Going global was difficult for Prowly, but after a year and a half, they found that their differentiating factor was catering to SMBs rather than enterprises.

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Dear Strategy: 060 Is Strategic Planning Dead?

Dear Strategy

Dear Strategy: “Is strategic planning dead?”. . So, naturally, I clicked on the link, which lead me to an article of the same title that appeared on Forbes.com back in 2016. So, naturally, I clicked on the link, which lead me to an article of the same title that appeared on Forbes.com back in 2016.

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Moving Applications to the Cloud and Adopting Cloud-Like Business Models

Revulytics

billion by 2021 – representing 26% growth since 2016. Companies evaluating SaaS transition strategies must consider the customer and competitive dynamics of their market and determine what the right speed and degree of change is for their business.”. Challenges for Desktop Software Vendors.

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Product Q&A with Justin Watt

The Product HQ

They focus on A+ design and partner closely with their clients in strategy, product management, design, and development. Some notable work from the past few years includes Slack, Notarize, Coinbase, and Sudo with many new, exciting products coming in 2016. That is where we differentiate between a consulting firm and product partner.

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Growth is getting hard from intensive competition, consolidation, and saturation

Andrew Chen

Facebook and Google now control most of the Top 10 apps in the mobile ecosystem: Source: Nielsen, Dec 2016. During its Q1 2017 earnings call, Facebook told investors that it expected ad revenue was approaching a saturation point, despite major growth in Q1 2017 earnings as compared to 2016. 3 Banner blindness = shitty clickthroughs.

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Slack: A Product Led Growth Strategy Case

The Product Coalition

Ally opportunity: Common survival strategy in product-led growth is through partnership/ally with other best-of-breed products in the same segment or even other. Microsoft launched Team in 2016 and took over many customers of Slack, and currently has almost twice as many daily active users as Slack. A recent example is Team vs Slack.