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Mental Models to Help You Grow

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

David Cancel of Drift often talks about letting your ideas “ cross-pollinate ” and mental models can be a catalyst for that. I leveraged many of the 52 mental models while working at various software as a service (SaaS) companies, but in truth, they can be applied anywhere, regardless of industry. Network effects (marketplace).

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Cognota’s Ryan Austin on Creating an Entire Category (LearnOps)

FastSpring

Stream the full interview below or find it wherever you listen to podcasts. And I just started a consulting business, it was a service business. Were interviewing larger customers, figuring things out, and they were in Houston. Ryan Austin 15:53 Yeah, we don’t do any service whatsoever.

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How to Make User Acquisition Practically Free with Lambda School (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

I want to talk about how we got to the business model that we have at Lambda School because it’s one of the things that separates us from other schools. Uber is a classic marketplace company. It’s a two-sided marketplace. You had town car services before. They needed something now.

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Miro’s Andrey Khusid on the art of distributed teamwork

Intercom, Inc.

?. Andrey Khusid, founder and CEO of Miro , hasn’t done many interviews. Andrey explains why embracing the professional services sector in a unique way has paid dividends. We also think about community and consultants and professional services as an ecosystem around our product. So our platform is also built for them to use.

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Gong’s Linda Lin on customer success strategies for moving upmarket

Intercom, Inc.

A great customer success team will help you to better understand your customer’s needs, identify what “success” means to them, and in turn, help your customers realize the value of your services, creating a more successful outcome for both their team and yours. Riding the hyper-growth wave. “Why do you have playbooks?

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Product Market Fit: Finding Your Product’s Place in the Market

ProfitWell

Ari Wells is the VP of Product Marketing at cloud service mogul Akamai. Finding proper market fit should be part of any business model as it’s the place where customer acquisition happens in the early stages of your company. You have to look at the marketplace and understand how people are actually finding their success.

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PODCAST 131: Data, Set, Match: How to Build a Two-Sided Marketplace to Drive Revenue with Ryan Walsh

Sales Hacker

Why it’s hard to build a two-sided marketplace [13:38]. Now, without further ado, let’s listen to this interview with Ryan Walsh. So, when a sales professional interviews at accompany, all of that information flows one way from the candidate to the company. Sam Jacobs : What’s the business model?