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My Company’s Revenue Dropped to $0 — and We Thrived with TripActions CEO Ariel Cohen (Video)

SaaStr

Recovery from COVID has taught us that adapting and learning how to thrive in new ways in the face of change, whether good or bad, can lead to exponential growth. . Develop a well-defined vision. If you have a comprehensive, compelling vision, it will be easy for your teams to trust it and rally behind you. Define your crisis.

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How to Win Big by Serving High-Growth Startups with Zendesk’s Head of Startups

SaaStr

You don’t want conflict with the sales team. How do you leverage that offer to develop relationships with partners? This is where they started, but startups weren’t adopting the product as much with a discount, and there was a lot of conflict with the sales team. During SaaStr Annual, Zendesk Sr. Do they have a CRO in place?

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For better products, start with a problem statement

Intercom, Inc.

” The secret to shipping successful product, then, is clearly defining for your team the problem that you’re setting out to solve. A great problem statement supercharges product development. It inspires and guides your design team, it makes evaluation simple, and it creates direction for scoping and iteration.

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Is My Second Product Failing?

Casey Accidental

This can make it tricky to evaluate as an engineer, designer, product manager or CEO if the investment will bear fruit and whether one should keep going. I’ll explain how I think about these decisions as a product leader and give more context on the journey of developing entirely new products inside a company.

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Market Gaps: 10 Ways to Spot Untapped Customer Needs

User Pilot

A market gap can be caused by missing functionality or poor user experience. Tracking user behavior in-app enables product teams to find ways to improve product experience. Competitor analysis enables PMs to find areas where rivals fail customers and develop sound positioning and differentiation strategies.

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The Secrets to Building a World-Class, $2.3 Billion Inside Sales Team (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

sales team. As everyone left to work for an investment bank in California or New York that summer of ’99, I went to work at a startup in Ann Arbor. I did all sorts of things there from sales, to project management, to running the engineering team, hiring. We have team selling here that extends beyond the sales team.

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How to Develop a Winning Digital Marketing Strategy in 4 Easy Steps

Neil Patel

The bad news is that marketers waste 37 to 95 percent of their marketing budget. You’ll want to break each of these areas down in enough detail so you (and your team) can work with each of these areas properly. Are you focusing your attention on a specific niche, i.e., affluent travelers, price-conscious fashion aficionados?