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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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What's down the Pipe?

ProfitWell

And we are currently witnessing it, from transportation to entertainment , dining to retail. Choosing the right SaaS metrics for different stages of your company. Historically, we’ve seen people are miserably bad at collecting feedback from current and potential customers through surveys, because they’re sending really crappy ones.

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Benn Stancil, founder of Mode, on how data science can help us make better decisions

Intercom, Inc.

However, we’ve had a great team. If our conclusion is based on data that is manually entered by a sales team, it may just be that that’s the part of the process where the sales team is sloppier about entering that data in Salesforce, and therefore, that conclusion isn’t a reflection of reality.

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Changing the Way We Work with Founding Partner Lan Xuezhao at Basis Set Ventures (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Today She discusses how everything is changing in the current climate, the rise of war-time founders, having teams work remote, and the supply-chain reimagined. And that’s probably not so much in a down market like this, where investors really care about the metrics and the unit economics. What does this mean?

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170+ Women in Sales Share Their Career-Defining Aha Moment

Sales Hacker

Never believe that doubting yourself is a bad thing. That company only lasted another year before they were out of business, so it was a poor use of my energy, time, and being away from my family – a lesson I work to pass on to others new in roles today. Invest in your development internally and externally. Joyce Johnson.

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Funding in the Time of Coronavirus with Mark Suster (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

They don’t want to p**s off management teams that face dilution from down rounds. I don’t think we really know how bad things can be. I mean, sorry, we’re already there, but I don’t know if it’ll be there on mass or if this is just a small trend, it’ll depend on how bad the market gets.