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Leveraging Software Platforms

Roman Pichler

Be Clear on What a Software Platform Is. Different people have suggested different definitions for the term software platform. Let me briefly share mine: I view such a platform as a collection of software assets that are used by several products, as the following picture illustrates.

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Six principles of system design

Intercom, Inc.

But if you’re a product designer starting out on a new project, you might find yourself with a blank page, and the job of drawing the map: of defining the high-level design direction that your team is going to use to chart their course. Creating a system design. An example of system design for part of Intercom.

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Product in Practice: Getting Value Out of In-App Surveys Takes Iteration

Product Talk

Ellen Juhlin , a product coach and Product Talk instructor, shares several ways that she used in-app surveys to collect feedback and create regular touch points with customers. In each instance, Ellen found a solution that didn’t require too much time or technical know-how to set up. You can submit yours here.

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The ultimate marketing technology stack for 2019

Intercom, Inc.

Known as the Martech 5000 — nicknamed after the 5,000 companies that were competing in the global marketing technology space in 2017, it’s said to be the most frequently shared slide of all time. The reasons for this growth – high-velocity economics of software innovation, the migration of money from old media to new media, etc.

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How to Collect More In-App Feedback (and What to Do With It)

Alchemer Mobile

Your customers are already on their phones – meet them where they’re at through in-app feedback collection. This eliminates the amount of steps customers have to take to give you feedback, which further increases the number of people willing to give you that feedback. Why you should be collecting in-app feedback.

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From marketplace to SaaS business: How Udemy acquired 80% of the Fortune 100

Intercom, Inc.

Seeing a real demand for business courses in their consumer marketplace, the team identified an opening in the market to disrupt corporate training and hypothesized that employers would be more than willing to pay. And it’s an advantage that traditional corporate learning platforms simply can’t replicate.

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Evaluating Solutions: The 5 Types of Assumptions that Underlie Our Ideas

Product Talk

We’ve chosen this as our target opportunity and have generated three potential solutions: Add social media share buttons that allow people to quickly share the title and URL of the article. Each of these solutions depend on a number of assumptions that need to be true in order for each solution to succeed.