article thumbnail

Finding Product-Market Fit – Expert Advice From Prowly’s CEO Joanna Drabent

Userpilot

Joanna founded and ran the Kolko PR agency from 2010 to 2016 where she noticed there was a need to automate the PR processes and there was no tool on the market to make that possible. Before co-founding Prowly, Joanna founded and ran Kolko PR agency from 2010 to 2016. We were instead looking for more financing opportunities.

article thumbnail

Chili Piper’s Co-Founder Alina Vandenberghe on bootstrapping your way to success

Intercom, Inc.

In 2016, she created Chili Piper with her husband Nicolas and poured in everything she had learned over the years. I worked in healthcare, finance, media, in education. When an SDR is with someone on the phone, especially outbound, and they are interested in doing a demo, they need to seize the moment.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Webflow’s Maggie Hott on building a scaleable sales team from the ground up

Intercom, Inc.

Back in 2015 or 2016, we learned at Slack that we were going to be hiring a VP of Sales. I helped to build out our EDU org, our non-profit org, our SMB org, our compete programs, our outbound motion, and all of these things are actually all now full functions today at Slack. We’re doing so well.

article thumbnail

How to Think About Scaling Your Customer Success Team

Gainsight

At Pulse 2016, SaaStr’s Customer Success for Start-ups track was one of the most popular series of sessions in the entire conference. A million things going on outbound-driven, rapidly changing. To answer your question about products specialization, in particular at Zuora, which is commerce billing and finance.