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Reading list: Platforms, ecosystems, and partnerships

Intercom, Inc.

Below, you’ll find a collection of articles and interviews that tease out the dynamics of ecosystems, platforms and partnerships. In this fascinating interview with our Director of Content John Collins, the head of Salesforce Incubator Mike Kreaden gives a deep dive on the evolution of one of the most successful platforms in SaaS. ?

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Top Lessons in Building Great Teams from Khosla Ventures (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

You don’t know how to interview them. Why don’t you interview this person?” Keith : So from 2003 to 2013 before I joined Khosla Ventures, I was a pretty active angel investor in Silicon Valley. You don’t know where to find them. You don’t know how to assess them. Lloyed : Awesome.

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Customer Feedback Loop: What is it and How To Close it

User Pilot

How to collect customer feedback: use interviews, NPS, customer satisfaction surveys, feature surveys, feedback widgets, and product betas. Use customer interviews to learn about user needs. Customer interviews provide a level of information that other feedback methods do not. There are different types of customer interviews.

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Top Lessons in Building Great Teams from Keith Rabois and Founders Fund (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

You don’t know how to interview them. Why don’t you interview this person?” Keith : So from 2003 to 2013 before I joined Khosla Ventures, I was a pretty active angel investor in Silicon Valley. You don’t know where to find them. You don’t know how to assess them. Lloyed : Awesome.

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Top Themes in Data Transcript

Tom Tunguz

Small models are the most popular.

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The Best NPS Tools & Software + How to Use Them to Cut Churn by Up To 30%

User Pilot

So since Reicheld published his seminal Harvard Business Review article “ The One Number You Need to Grow ” in 2003 – NPS rapidly grew to prominence. You can also automatically invite certain segments of users to interviews with it. Today, 55% of businesses say that they depend on it.

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Salesforce’s Mike Kreaden on how to build a platform to drive growth

Intercom, Inc.

And I remember Marc [Benioff] interviewing me, like he did every employee, and painting the vision for what the platform would be. It’s actually been quite a wild ride with Salesforce from the early days. When I started in 2002, I was the first product manager for the API.

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