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9 essential sales steps you need to grow your SaaS startup

Intercom, Inc.

In the early stages of most SaaS startups’ lives, the CEO or founder often acts as the initial head of sales. It is important that these friendly connections represent the target persona market you have outlined, as otherwise, the feedback loop is likely to be weak. Iterate the product based on feedback.

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Part One: Key Elements to Become a Healthy Product-Led Organization

Bain Public

Let’s face it, most organizations have poor habits around roadmap completion — this is why getting leadership (or stakeholders) to develop consistent, stable and familiar routines reinforced through repetition and communication is valuable. Unfortunately, product leadership culture can get a little messy.

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productboard Portal closes the gap between product teams and their customers

ProductBoard

productboard , the all-in-one product management solution, launched today on Product Hunt the Portal , an all-new interface that bridges the divide between the product teams and marketplace. As a PM from a renowned Valley startup quipped: “Today’s feature voting forums might as well be called ‘disappointment forums’.”

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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. Iterate, iterate, iterate.

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Spendesk’s Nicolas Marchais on evolving with your market

Intercom, Inc.

So they created a software that provides control, visibility, and payment methods for corporate finance teams. Spendesk thinks about building its company in three stages: startup, growth, and scale. Instead, focus on fostering a culture of communication and feedback loops between the team. Nico: Exactly. Nico: Correct.

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Intercom presents Engineer Chats

Intercom, Inc.

For the very first time, we’re releasing Engineer Chats , an internal podcast here at Intercom about all things engineering. Previously hosted by Jamie Osler , a Senior Product Engineer at Intercom for over seven years, it’s now up to Principal Systems Engineer Brian Scanlan to pick up the baton and keep the chats going.

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A Product Manager’s Approach to Building Integrations for SaaS Software

The Product Coalition

While working on a knowledge management solution aimed at custom support and sales teams, we integrated with several customer support desks and CRM. While initial integrations were factored into roadmaps and engineering workload, we were not realistic about what it takes to maintain what we had built.