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Instacart

Andreessen Horowitz

We pulled from my prior marketplaces experience and dove into their business quickly to develop a point-of-view on the opportunity. Beyond the metrics, co-founder and CEO Apoorva Mehta had great founder/product fit. It truly has been a team effort. It was April 2014, and the company was raising its Series B. billion to $20.7

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How to keep KPIs meaningful for your customer support team

Intercom, Inc.

They help managers evaluate how their employees are doing, the value they bring to a team and how their work can be improved. I had previously worked in the television and film industry, where there was an entirely different metric – either I delivered high quality work on time or I didn’t, and I was out. What KPIs should you track?

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Crafting the Blueprint: How to Build a Monetization Framework for Agile Success

Blulogix

Crafting the Blueprint: How to Build a Monetization Framework for Agile Success By BluLogix Team A Step-by-Step Guide to Architecting Your Monetization Strategy In the dynamic realm of agile monetization, constructing a robust Monetization Framework is akin to drafting a master blueprint for a skyscraper.

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Set your sales team’s written communication apart with GEMS, our email coaching framework

Intercom, Inc.

As a sales manager, the most impactful thing you can do is coach your team. At Intercom, we’ve developed the GEMS framework to help everyone on our teams achieve best-in-class written communication. Prospects and customers can only subscribe to that ideology if they experience it firsthand with our teams”.

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How Zapier supports 3 million users by investing in customer outcomes

Intercom, Inc.

But obsessing over efficiency can mask what’s most important, and most rewarding, to support teams – actually helping customers. Support teams exist to solve customers’ problems, not to deflect them or find the fastest way to hit the “close” button. The evolution of customer support. Customers] just want to use the solution.

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How to tell if your company has the right level of tech debt

OPEXEngine

And while the concept has been around for years, for most of that time, tech debt was primarily the concern of product and engineering teams. They’re also increasingly holding their teams accountable to manage it appropriately. To be clear, every company accumulates a certain amount of tech debt over time. Measuring tech debt.

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How to tell if your company has the right level of tech debt

OPEXEngine

And while the concept has been around for years, for most of that time, tech debt was primarily the concern of product and engineering teams. They’re also increasingly holding their teams accountable to manage it appropriately. To be clear, every company accumulates a certain amount of tech debt over time. Measuring tech debt.