Unless you carry a notebook around in your pocket, the chances are pretty good that you’re using your mobile device to keep track of your digital life. If you’re looking for tools to help you keep your life organized, chances are pretty good that you’ve used or at least heard of Evernote. Released in 2004,… (more) Google Keep vs. Evernote: Who’s the Note-Taking Champion?
When note-taking app Evernote launched back in 2004, it was a bold, innovative software product that promised to help us remember… well, everything. In 2004, Evernote was in the enviable position of being first-to-market. Evernote was among the very first software products to offer native apps for Windows, OS X, Android, and iOS. It was… (more) The 3 Evernote Alternatives You Should Switch to Right Now
Developing not one but two software products simultaneously just two years after establishing your company would probably sound like madness to most founders. That’s exactly what the Atlassian team did when they launched their wiki tool called Confluence back in 2004. Confluence not only beat virtually every other wiki tool to market but also adopted… (more) From Engineers to Everybody: How Atlassian’s Confluence Conquered the Enterprise
Even if you’ve never used it, you’ve probably heard of Evernote. It’s a note-taking app that can help you organize your digital life, and it’s been around since 2004. You can use Evernote to take notes, organize your files, and take clippings and snippets from virtually anywhere on the web. But is Evernote any good?… (more) Evernote Review: Has the King of Note-Taking Apps Been Replaced?
We recently analyzed 51 product manager job postings and found that the number one thing Product Managers own is documentation. I wanted to understand more about Product documents, so last week I emailed thousands of Product Managers and asked: “What are the product documents you create and who do you share them with?” We learned… (more) The Documents Product Managers Spend the Most Time On
Office 365 is a cloud-based suite of apps for productivity, collaboration, and communication, hosted on the cloud and accessible anywhere. Essentially it’s a web-based version of the classic Microsoft desktop office setup: productivity apps like PowerPoint, Word and Excel, Outlook for email, and an increasing number of add-ons for more expensive packages that help you… (more) What Is Office 365 and Should You Get It?
In 2000, Marc Benioff staged the first theatrical protest that Silicon Valley had ever seen. The CEO of a tiny startup that no one had heard of paid actors to carry “anti-software” signs. They marched in front of a user conference for Siebel Systems, which sold customer relationship management software. Later that year, Benioff hosted… (more) How Salesforce Built a $13 Billion Empire from a CRM
“We’ve had a lot of smart people who wouldn’t join the company or give us money or advise us because [our business] made no sense to them.” — Mike Cannon-Brookes, Atlassian co-founder When Atlassian was founded in 2002, the founders had a choice to make. They could jump through the standard hoops and do the… (more) How Atlassian Built a $10 Billion Growth Engine
“How much is Basecamp worth? I don’t know, and I don’t care.” – Basecamp Founder & CEO, Jason Fried There’s a common roadmap for SaaS growth. Build a product that solves a need for your core audience. Raise venture dollars to build new products and features. Land and expand upmarket to the enterprise. Basecamp has… (more) How an Anti-Growth Mentality Helped Basecamp Grow to Over 2 Million Customers
Slack isn’t just the fastest-growing SaaS startup in history. It also accomplished the seemingly impossible in just five short years: Slack made work fun. Slack’s tagline is “Be Less Busy,” but for the first two years of Slack’s development, the company was very busy. What began as an internal tool hacked together out of necessity… (more) How Slack Became an $16 Billion Business by Making Work Less Boring
