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Should you disrupt or create a category? 5 lessons from Gainsight’s CMO Anthony Kennada

Intercom, Inc.

In late 2007, a pair of roommates found themselves scraping their wallets to come up with enough cash to cover their exorbitant San Francisco rent. Prospective customers have to be educated. Over the past four years, the number of Customer Success Managers (CSMs) in the industry has increased 400%. Investors might not get it.

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Growth is getting hard from intensive competition, consolidation, and saturation

Andrew Chen

One of the best essays written last year was Elad Gil’s End of Cycle? – referencing our most recent 2007-2017 run on mobile and web software, and the implications for investing, startups, and entrepreneurs. Ten years ago, we used to look at total registered users. Outbound used to be painstaking and manual.

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What do you look for an investment? How long should a founder be without salary? And other Q&A

Andrew Chen

And their motivations — in particular, to spend time with friends, to date, to be able to earn more, to find better work over their careers, to take care of their pets, etc., also stay constant over time. and try to make sure that it’s sticky now and will remain so over time. What new technology does it exploit?

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Product Channel Fit Will Make or Break Your Growth Strategy

Brian Balfour

For virality to be a high ceiling channel, a product at a minimum needs Quick Time To Value. Value prop of the product needs to be applicable to large percentage of a user's network (branching factor). To have product channel fit with paid marketing: Quick Time To Value - Users have less patience to find value when coming from an ad.

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What do you look for an investment? How long should a founder be without salary? And other Q&A

Andrew Chen

And their motivations — in particular, to spend time with friends, to date, to be able to earn more, to find better work over their careers, to take care of their pets, etc., also stay constant over time. and try to make sure that it’s sticky now and will remain so over time. What new technology does it exploit?