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Startup marketing: strategies for year one

Intercom, Inc.

The most important tasks for any early stage startup are to write code and talk to users. About 50 percent of my time was spent communicating with potential users, whether that was asking them to try Intercom over email, meeting them at conferences, responding to them in blog comments or talking to them on Hacker News. Absolutely not.

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Startup Metrics

TechEmpower - Product Management

When talking to startup founders or other innovators, we always ask questions to better understand their business as a core. Another thing that Dave has done well is to look at the value of different marketing channels: There’s a lot of value in this presentation. Focus on building an MVP to gather startup metrics.

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Startup CTO or Developer

TechEmpower - Product Management

What does it mean to be a CTO for a startup? Should a startup CTO spend their time programming? Here’s a graphic from Socal CTO that illustrates the roles as they change over time: In its earliest days, a startup’s top need is often to produce a product. Check out our blog post 53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators.

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20 Product Manager Blogs Worth Following in 2022

Userpilot

Do you follow any product manager blogs? In our article, we introduce 20 of our favorite product manager blogs that every product pro should follow, regardless of their experience. Product manager blogs offer practical advice and help you expand your product management knowledge. Our favorite product management blogs.

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How to Become a Startup Product Manager without Experience

The Product HQ

Startup Product managers are in charge of setting up the foundation for product management at a new company. That said, while startup product managers are in demand, many prospective professionals still have difficulty figuring out how to embark on this career path. percent for a corporation.

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We killed the blog. We hope you like it.

Intercom, Inc.

Over the past few years Intercom’s customer base has grown considerably beyond the startup and product-focused readership we initially focused on with Inside Intercom. We still love that audience, but we now offer products for sales , marketing and support teams and have been going deep on those topics as well. Time to kill the blog.

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Want to hire great designers? Start a blog.

Intercom, Inc.

Even if your company has a strong mission , a learning culture with smart people to learn from and lots of growth opportunities, it’s very difficult to know what it’s like to work there by reading your job listing and looking at your marketing website. Start a blog. If that’s you, we’re hiring !

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