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Product Differentiation: A Guide to Standing Out

OpenView Labs

Product differentiation is the work of defining your product’s strengths and unique value proposition in order to attract and retain new users and customers. A product’s competitive advantages can be the result of superior features, proprietary technology, standout performance, better design, and even stellar customer service. .

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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 I didn’t even have words for these functions at the time.

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Building a System for Growth

OpenView Labs

Over the last 10 years, “growth” has become a thing in tech. There are new job titles—growth marketing, growth product manager, growth engineer, head of growth—and new opportunities that have changed the way companies think about how to grow their revenue or users. Are there marketplace dynamics?

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Scaling Revenue via Indirect Channels and Platform Ecosystems with Stripe, Box and Slack (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

On one half of it you have product market fit and on the other half you have partners and ideally developers integrating in order to reach your users. The platform flywheel, the basics of it are you have a product that suddenly has market fit, you have customers who are joining that product.

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5 customer acquisition strategies for winning new customers

Intercom, Inc.

All future growth hinges on one thing – customer acquisition. While this may sound simple, it can be incredibly challenging to find new opportunities for growth and customer acquisition in an increasingly crowded marketplace. For accounting and payroll products, the No. Don’t trade growth for profitability.

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Data Analytics Can Only Take You So Far. Confessions of a Data-driven CMO.

OpenView Labs

Shopify provides them with everything they need to start, sell, market and manage their businesses in a single platform. Our own company has evolved alongside our customers, broadening our services and products to meet the growing needs of an expanded range of entrepreneurs.

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