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Product Judgment: How some people can repeatedly create product success

Intercom, Inc.

I hope this post allows people and teams to safely talk about Product Judgment. If you ever had to face a Manager, Director or Exec as they make bad product decisions and you’re struggling to persuade them otherwise, this post will help you. It takes years to build, and therefore ranges from very weak to very strong.

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What's down the Pipe?

ProfitWell

And we are currently witnessing it, from transportation to entertainment , dining to retail. Pipe , a B2B SaaS financing platform, has raised $6 million in funding to help growing startups avoid dilution. And with Pipe, we see three young serial entrepreneurs create a solution for “the canonical cash flow issue in SaaS startups.”

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

Intercom, Inc.

Liam: Was it challenging to get to this point with Mode in the startup journey? Every startup is going to be a challenge, and Mode is no different. However, we’ve had a great team. Liam: For startups out there, how can data be used to drive growth? Benn: For sure. Mode has had plenty of ups and downs.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Jennifer Tejada, Ben Chestnut, and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

Zipline is a California drone-based delivery company that transports critical medical supplies like blood and vaccines in Rwanda and Ghana. Jennifer Tejada: So it’s not all terrible bad news because Winston Churchill told us, “Never waste a good crisis.” How do you leverage your team to do that? Sound easy?

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Norman Crowley on uncovering the business opportunities in tackling climate change

Intercom, Inc.

We were fairly poor. So I started to develop a hankering for making money at an early age. I always loved software and developing software. And even now we set up new companies, we set up a new startup in COVID actually, in lockdown, and we’ve taken that. And so, our teams it’s a huge motivator for them.

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Investing in Gate Bio

Andreessen Horowitz

The secretion of ‘bad-actor’ proteins can drive conditions like neurodegeneration, autoimmunity, cancer, and more: what if we could design small molecules to stop them (“gate” them) from being secreted in the first place—before they even have a chance to cause disease?

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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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