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Trajectory matters more than state

When you analyze your company it’s easy to look at everything in its current state. What’s our biggest problem today? What’s our best...

Picking a pricing strategy for your product

Choosing the correct pricing for your product is a daunting task – particularly if you’ve never priced anything before. But there are...

Your product is already obsolete

The relentless march of technological improvement means that by their very nature technology businesses fail. That’s why as founders,...

When the answer isn’t in the data

Easy availability of data has fundamentally changed the game when it comes to validating business activities. But if we’re all data and...

Building a feature no one asked for

We recently created a feature in Intercom that none of our customers were asking for – video replies. I explained why at a recent...

Our new book: Intercom on Product Management

We’ve published a lot of articles on product management over the past two years. Rather than leave them in our archives, we’ve updated...

Meaningful growth vs metric manipulation

What gets measured gets done, no matter the cost. But there is a genuine danger in reducing product onboarding and design to an exercise...

Rarely say yes to feature requests

Here’s a simple set of Yes/No questions that you can quickly answer before you add another item to your product roadmap. Saying yes to a...

Why Microsoft needs a new focus

For Microsoft to survive the gravitational pull of enterprise irrelevance, a lot of things need to change. Starting with focus. At a...

Make Every Word Matter

The same companies who produce lengthy, hard-to-read press releases create bloated, hard-to-understand products. It’s no coincidence;...

An Interview with Andy Budd

We talked to Andy Budd about the role of design in startups, the difference between designers and stylists, and the danger of chasing...

Building a Brand On Customer Service

Zappos are held up on a pedestal for a very good reason. There are very few companies who have built a brand upon amazing customer...

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