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Beyond “Cheaper, Faster, Better”?—?Vertical Integration for Startups

The Product Coalition

While this article focuses on startups in B2B markets, we can extend it to B2C and B2B2C, while some considerations might be different. External Considerations While the business might seem ripe for disruption, it might not be accessible due to political considerations, which, in turn, drive regulation.

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8 Keys to Getting Started

Product Management Lessons from the Trenches

Two years ago this week, I started work as the first VP of Product Management at NTENT - a company with huge, rapidly growing market, world-famous CTO, seasoned executives and engineering team, and core technology that only a handful of companies in the world possess. Review company documents and presentations. Do your research.

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2021 in conversation: Learnings from the podcast

Intercom, Inc.

Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. In this special episode, we sat down with Zanade to talk about allyship, empowering Black-owned businesses, and what it takes to change deeply seated systemic issues and affect policy at a national level. Janeen Uzzell , COO for Wikimedia Foundation.

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How I Use Gainsight PX as a SaaS CEO

Gainsight

So as business is becoming more real-time—information being collected and digested for immediate use in decision-making—the layers of abstraction between a CEO and the key stakeholders and systems must be reduced. We couldn’t do any of the basic user analytics that I know my friends at B2C companies did in their sleep.

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Business Development vs. Product Management

The Product Guy

Jordan has enterprise Software-as-a-Service experience within the facilities management, legal and pharmaceutical verticals, having most recently worked at ServiceChannel, Epiq Systems and Medidata Solutions. Vikas did his Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Information Systems from XLRI Jamshedpur, India.

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Product Strategies for Non-Strategists

The Product Guy

Jordan has enterprise Software-as-a-Service experience within the facilities management, legal and pharmaceutical verticals, having most recently worked at ServiceChannel, Epiq Systems and Medidata Solutions. Vikas did his Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Information Systems from XLRI Jamshedpur, India.

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Rapid Prototyping for Product Managers

The Product Guy

Jordan has enterprise Software-as-a-Service experience within the facilities management, legal and pharmaceutical verticals, having most recently worked at ServiceChannel, Epiq Systems and Medidata Solutions. Vikas did his Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Information Systems from XLRI Jamshedpur, India.