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Finding the Next Wave of Growth: S-Curves and Product Sequencing

Casey Accidental

The Summit gathered ~40 CPOs and product leaders to chat through topics centered around product development and product-led growth. Most companies when they find product/market fit with their first product only have one acquisition and engagement loop that is successful, and the job of most of the team is to refine and scale those loops.

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My First 16: Competing in a Crowd of Incumbents with Mercury’s Immad Akhund

Andreessen Horowitz

All of these tools that were useful as startups for running your business had improved a lot. When I first started in 2006, everything was really bad. And it just seemed obvious to me that someone would make a better bank product for for startups and for entrepreneurs. Everything was quite painful as an entrepreneur.

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HubSpot’s Michael Redbord on staying in touch with your customers as you scale

Intercom, Inc.

You might say it’s one of the strongest advantages a startup has. But as the business becomes more successful – and there are resources to build a support team – additional layers begin to separate executives from their customers. Here are five quick takeaways: Most sales and support teams talk about their jobs as a funnel.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Pilot and Doctolib — March 20, 2020

SaaStr

317: Rachel Hepworth is VP of Marketing @ Pilot, the startup that offers the best bookkeeping, tax and CFO services for growing businesses. Before Slack, Rachel spent 4 years at LinkedIn where she led the product marketing team for content experiences. And this was right around the time of 2006 to seven.

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The Best Website Builders (In-Depth Review)

Neil Patel

Startups in the fundraising process and are looking to scale fast or even change core features of their product should also take caution here. Things to consider: Support channels – You will need to consider the different ways you can get in touch with support teams such as live chat, email, and phone. Who should use Wix?

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Redpoint Ventures, Felicis Ventures, and Adyen — November 22, 2019

SaaStr

Before Optimizely, Travis spent 6 years at Salesforce in a number of sales roles including building the first Platform Sales team. What does Travis advise founders when it comes to uniting customer facing teams? * During his time at Optimizely, the company grew from from $7 to >$90M in ARR and from 40 to 400 people.

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Norman Crowley on uncovering the business opportunities in tackling climate change

Intercom, Inc.

We were fairly poor. So I started to develop a hankering for making money at an early age. I always loved software and developing software. And even now we set up new companies, we set up a new startup in COVID actually, in lockdown, and we’ve taken that. And so, our teams it’s a huge motivator for them.