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Value Engineering and Build vs. Rent

Mironov Consulting

 Renting (licensing) means we can put more of our own effort into market differentiators. We want to invest our always-scarce development efforts in work that truly matters to our customers, or where only we can do what’s necessary.  So and then the next.

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Revenue Goals are Not Company Strategies

Mironov Consulting

Pure revenue may be helpful for the Sales organization, since they probably need to hire 35% more account teams each year.    And possibly helpful to Finance, responding to investors’ demands for a hypothetical 2-year cash flow forecast. ” What To Do?   No magic bullets. 

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BrowserStack’s Mark Rudden on hypergrowth in a global pandemic

Intercom, Inc.

And so, Mark Rudden and his team had to figure it all out by themselves. Fortunately, Mark had quite a bit of experience working and scaling teams in demanding, hypergrowth environments. Building a great sales team: How Intercom fosters and maintains its sales culture. Onboarding, but make it remote.

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Legacy Systems VS Modern Embedded Analytics

Reveal

We call one application a modern application when it is built with a combination of modular architecture patterns, DevOps, DevSecOps, serverless operational models, and agile development processes that allow businesses to reduce risk and accelerate time to market. Not a bad deal, don’t you think? for every dollar spent.

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Why we need Product Management, with Rich Mironov

BrainMates

In March 2018, Rich Mironov visited Australia and presented to the Product Talks Sydney Meetup Group on building and scaling Product teams. Why do we need a Product Management team? My recent experience is more with startups, and I tend toward enterprise rather than consumer. Do they have money? Who pays us money?

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Baremetrics’ Josh Pigford on launching – and pivoting – quickly

Intercom, Inc.

Remarkably, the team stuck around with few exceptions. One of your first hires should be someone who can nerd out on your company’s finances. Or you had to go to the other extreme of spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on some massive analytics software with this enterprise-y sales thing. Hard conversations ensued.

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Growth, Funding, Pivotal Moments and the Evolution of Adzerk to Kevel

Business of Software Conference

So, this was focused on software developers, specifically, for dotnet software developers, this very small ad network, I ran those ad networks for a couple years, and realized that that was a terrible business. And I was a software developer before. And then we, we started to sell like big enterprises. 2:43 Mark: Yeah.