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How to Find Product-Market-Sales Fit

Andreessen Horowitz

One of the toughest challenges for founders — and especially technical founders who are used to focusing so much on product features over sales — is striking “product-market fit”. What are the key milestones that go into both, and in different phases of company building — especially pre to post product-market fit?

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The “It Factor” in Selling Is a Myth: How to Build a Team of Top Performers

Sales Hacker

The reality for many organizations is—top performers thrive and the rest of the team is left behind. A recent survey from Mindtickle and Heinz Marketing of 280 sales and revenue leaders found that only 14.7% of sales teams hit their goals. But each member of your sales team has unique strengths, weaknesses, and learning styles.

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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. Sometimes they do so intentionally because they feel pressure to get to market faster.

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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. Sometimes they do so intentionally because they feel pressure to get to market faster.

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Kung Fu

A Smart Bear

The implication is that this was unknowable or bad luck, but the truth is, this was a predictable result of not understanding the market. Sometimes that’s airtight product/market it. Sometimes that’s product design so thrilling that every customer spreads the word to five more. Multitasking is bad.

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How Dopple Is Defining an Emerging Market

FastSpring

When Justin and his initial team started looking for a way to capitalize on VR/AR technology, they focused their attention on the “made-to-order” industrial market. But they quickly realized the market was too small and that there was a bigger opportunity elsewhere — in wider B2B and B2C commerce. Jera Brown Nice.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Chargebee and Glassdoor — November 1, 2019

SaaStr

As for Krish, under Krish’s leadership the team has grown to over 300 people and over 5,000 clients making it one of the next generation in truly global SaaS businesses started in India. Does one have to expand the product line to retain customers? First, what is continuous customer development? Loving our podcast content?

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