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What to do if your product isn’t taking off

Lenny Rachitsky

Subscribe now P.S. New swag drop Q: I’ve been working on my startup for a couple of years now. Most startups, and new product ideas, fail—we all know this—but it’s different when it’s your product. Cold inbound interest: You’re seeing cold inbound interest in your product.

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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. For many B2B SaaS companies, inbound marketing represents a cornerstone of all marketing activity. Inbound marketing is when you create compelling content that educates and informs your target personas.

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Positioning For Growth: How To Make Complex Products Obviously Awesome | April Dunford, Ambient Strategy | BoS USA 2019

Business of Software Conference

In this BoS Talk April shows you how important positioning is to your product and how you can be doing yourself a great injustice just by positioning incorrectly. April Dunford (Founder/CEO, Ambient Strategy) – Positioning for Growth: How To Make Complex Products Obviously Awesome from Business of Software Conference.

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What 14 startup investors and advisors taught us about chasing (and finding) product-market fit

Mixpanel

It’s been a long-held notion in startup circles that lack of product-market fit will doom even the scrappiest of teams to fail. And beyond the anecdotal, an often-cited 2019 study CB Insights found that “no market need” was the leading reason most startups don’t succeed. ” Credit: The Lean Startup Playbook. In short, yes.

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

Userpilot

Product market fit, often just called product/market or “P/M” is one of the most important Lean Startup concepts. Marc Andreessen famously defines product-market fit as : “The moment when a startup finally finds a widespread set of customers that resonate with its product.”. First the features, then the inbound marketing.

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CX expert Bill Price on creating frictionless customer experiences

Intercom, Inc.

I tried to correct the error of my ways from an early consulting career by joining a startup company in the customer service IVR service bureau field. “Instead of trying to optimize the contact center experience with all sorts of things, they said, ‘Let’s get rid of an inbound phone number.’

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The future of customer acquisition with HubSpot’s Meghan Keaney Anderson

Intercom, Inc.

That’s not inherently bad, but that does change a lot about the way that we operate” Meghan Keaney Anderson has been doing just that at HubSpot for the past 8 years, which feels like a lifetime in the world of startups. This is episode nine of Scale , a brand new podcast series on moving from startup to scale up.