Andrew Chen

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

and finally, what happens when my “X for Y” startup idea is taken? People love describing startups as “X for Y” — why? ” In fact, Marketwatch did an analysis of startup company descriptions and found that startups often compared themselves to other companies in their descriptions.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 28, 2022

Nimble young businesses, who live by the Lean Startup approach of building, measuring, and learning, move from nothing to a product customers love in what appears, from an established company perspective at least, virtually no time. Startups practice the lean methodology to avoid spending time on things that won’t deliver value.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 4, 2019

The language-processing AI software extracts relevant information from this database, then sorts the candidates based on the following four categories: 1) The Role Title. The post AI at an Early Stage Startup by Zara Tam appeared first on Mind the Product. The AI can sort the list of candidates into senior or generic-level piles.

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First Round Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Here are his key takeaways for early startups to lay the groundwork for healthy growth. Mike Brown managed all facets of Uber's business in Asia for four years as it went from $0 to billions. Continue reading at First Round Review »

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

However, if you are a startup to execute such an idea, here’s what you want to know about all-in-one product challenges for B2B offerings. Here’s a metaphor I heard among B2B companies: “We are going to combine features X, Y, Z, and we will become a Swiss pocket knife of market category ABC!” “The

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Mixpanel

MAY 5, 2022

All startups should be using product analytics to understand their users and build products and features that their users love. What makes a ‘crypto startup’? For us, any startup offering core products that rely on these technologies falls into the “crypto startup” category. Some popular Web 3.0

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Mixpanel

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

It’s been a long-held notion in startup circles that lack of product-market fit will doom even the scrappiest of teams to fail. And beyond the anecdotal, an often-cited 2019 study CB Insights found that “no market need” was the leading reason most startups don’t succeed. ” Credit: The Lean Startup Playbook. In short, yes.

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The Review by First Round

JANUARY 13, 2022

Before helping early-stage startups, Arielle started her career in Product Marketing at Google, where she helped launch and grow Google Books and AdWords before leading marketing for Gmail. She then joined Square, where she led the launch of the Square Stand. Read This First. Read This First.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 28, 2020

The role of a Product Owner/Manager/Strategist is to help startups capture and transform customer insights into full product experiences that in turn increase customer satisfaction, loyalty, retention, and the business values. Customer Excellence 3. how to become the ?1 To do so, the activities of the PM include: a.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 18, 2023

The legislation is based on a comprehensive AI definition and the associated risk categories. Each AI system is classified into risk categories — Prohibitive, High, Low, Minimal, and General Purpose AI systems. Requirements Legal experts and startups will create compliance scorecards for AI creators in the next few months.

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Andrew Chen

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Is there still room for marketplace startups to innovate? Marketplace startups have done incredibly well over the first few decades of the internet, reinventing the way we shop for goods, but have been less successful services. Craigslist’s Services category is the archetypal unmanaged service marketplace.

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Lenny Rachitsky

MARCH 21, 2024

— Emilie Gerber is the founder and CEO of Six Eastern , a top PR agency that’s worked with over 100 tech companies, from stealth startups to publicly traded companies. Also offers opportunities for inclusion in lists of top startups or professionals in various fields. Simplify security. VentureBeat: AI.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

In the early stages of most SaaS startups’ lives, the CEO or founder often acts as the initial head of sales. How do they describe the category? The post 9 essential sales steps you need to grow your SaaS startup appeared first on Inside Intercom. What features are most appealing?

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Andrew Chen

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

and finally, what happens when my “X for Y” startup idea is taken? People love describing startups as “X for Y” — why? ” In fact, Marketwatch did an analysis of startup company descriptions and found that startups often compared themselves to other companies in their descriptions.

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Andrew Chen

JUNE 3, 2019

Why most VCs typically invest in only one startup in a given business category. . The math of startups and venture capital. Of all the topics of the book, one of my favorites has to be the math of startups and venture capital, because it gives us a perspective on the life and death of startups as a whole.

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Does it matter what category a particular assumption falls into? Assumptions fall into five categories: desirability, feasibility, usability, viability, and ethical. The value of the categories is they help us generate assumptions that represent risk in our ideas. What is an assumption? What is an assumption test? That’s okay.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 26, 2019

While all Product Managers are tasked with providing delightful solutions for customers, there are distinct differences between the work of PMs in startups compared to PMs in larger, more established businesses. The distinctions between these categories affect how you as a PM must approach your duties within the company you work for.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2023

It’s nearly impossible to do, and even if you can do it, in most cases your startup won’t survive the time it would take in order to see its fruits. Many startups fall into this category. When the iPhone first came out, it fell into this category. Many blue-ocean startups start here.

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First Round Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Here are his key takeaways for early startups to lay the groundwork for healthy growth. Mike Brown managed all facets of Uber's business in Asia for four years as it went from $0 to billions.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 12, 2022

Zoom recently integrated Dropbox, Slack, and 24 products from different categories, this is all about setting up a complementary ecosystem to get more user adoption. A larger ecosystem of these big players sooner or later becomes a threat for the product-led-growth startups. A recent example is Team vs Slack.

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Andrew Chen

DECEMBER 10, 2018

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. Today, startups use awesome mobile apps to create demand and to solve the same problem. My investing thesis.

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Mixpanel

JULY 9, 2021

In my experience, which is primarily with startups, it can change your whole approach to product development and engineering. Put another way: I wanted to call this article “How to save money, brain cells, your engineering/product relationship, and the grand vision of your startup.”

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ProductBoard

AUGUST 24, 2022

We’re thrilled to announce that Productboard has been recognized yet again as a fantastic, forward-thinking employer, with Forbes naming us one of America’s Best Startup Employers of 2022 and Comparably awarding us four “Best Places to Work” awards across the following categories: Best CEOs for Women Best CEOs for Diversity (..)

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Userpilot

AUGUST 30, 2023

The 2023 edition is the biggest so far, with 20 speakers and four categories. Product Drive talks categories This year’s edition comes with four talks categories to give you insights and inspirations into different aspects of Product. Product management and leadership speakers. Product growth speakers.

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Product Talk

MAY 3, 2023

What a lot of teams—especially startup founders—do is ask their customers, “Hey, would you pay for this? We’re going to put that in the worst category. Many startups concierge test their ideas before they start building—this means they sell and manually deliver their solutions before they build anything.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 31, 2023

It’s a mature startup, with a number of products in the market, a leader in some categories and building up nicely in others. I really like this framework as it outlines the human customer journey with your product and breaks it down into distinct categories. But you do need to choose. It should be clear and simple.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

One area where I see this phenomenon of unrealistic expectations in many startups is regarding the sales process of their product. Despite what people think, the first sale in a startup is usually not as hard as the ones following it. One of these places that I get to work with companies on, is how to sell their product.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Over the past few years Intercom’s customer base has grown considerably beyond the startup and product-focused readership we initially focused on with Inside Intercom. Simultaneously, Intercom has introduced features for larger companies: our customer base now runs the full gamut from early stage startups to large established companies.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

the CPO of a startup that has a great product in the market asked me with a sigh. Going all-in into data and measurements is not trivial, and even more so when you are a startup that has good traction and hence a lot of other product investments you want to make. That was the question that S. , for example on a red-yellow-green scale.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 4, 2021

Many startups fall into this category. When the iPhone first came out, it fell into this category. Other examples in this category are Google Docs, Airbnb, Uber, and Salesforce CRM when it first came out. Many blue-ocean startups start here. If your pitch says you are “reinventing something”?—?that’s

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Userpilot

APRIL 21, 2024

Here, you can have your customer information split into different categories, including: Personal data such as name, user ID, country, total number of sessions, last seen, and the signed update. early-stage tech startups). As well as day-to-day customer contacts and the user segments they belong to (e.g.

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NextBigWhat

JUNE 9, 2023

Ask any VC or a founder and they will tell you the startup wisdom. While largely true, but maybe not if you are in the early stages of building a product-led business and competing in a sales-driven-soulless category. Traction trumps everything. What do I mean by ‘soul’?

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

It might be to launch a new product, to define a new category or to hit $1M in revenue. You hit your goal – you launched that new product, defined that new category, hit $1M in revenue. Then apply Lean Startup Principles to hiring by putting people in the role. You probably have a goal in mind.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 13, 2022

Many startups feel that the only thing preventing them from selling their product is a great demo. They seek a solution for their problem, and depending on the maturity of your category and how innovative your product is, they may or may not know what kinds of solutions exist. The truth is quite different. But that’s not how it begins.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 24, 2022

Case Category: Market sizing & Estimation, Goals & Measures Case Type: Investor pitch by a startup planning to launch smartwatches in India ?? Case: “ Suppose you have been hired as a PM for a tech startup that is trying to launch smartwatches in India in a non-premium segment. What is it?

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 12, 2022

AI powered systems are adept at reading 1000s of documents and automatically classifying them into the right categories. Regulatory submission of these trial documents involves transforming these documents into a common format and classify them into the right categories and extract relevant information.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Mohamed Aboshihata is the Head of Product at MediaZilla, a startup that enables studios to package, distribute, and sell event videos. Benedikte Holm is currently the CPO at Findable, a startup working to make facility management more sustainable by digitizing building documentation. Let’s look at each in a bit more detail.

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