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Why Most Companies Fail At Moving Up or Down Market

Brian Balfour

As a result they've differentiated their product on the things that enterprise customers care about: customization, security, and scale (that's their Market Product Fit). As a result they've differentiated their product on “All In One” since thats what mid-market customers care about. Marketo Their market is the enterprise.

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Reflecting on the Intercom journey – Karen Peacock and Des Traynor in conversation

Intercom, Inc.

The state of tooling in 2010 or 2011 was that there was no Stripe, there was no subscription management and the idea of a SaaS economy was just nonsense. We incorporated in San Francisco on August 15th, 2011, I think. And it’s never an exciting feature, it’s not a differentiator.

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New at Intercom uncut: Watch our entire virtual launch event

Intercom, Inc.

And I’d like to talk you through some of the trends we’ve observed since 2011 and some of the beliefs that underpin what we build in Intercom. We built the first Business Messenger in 2011 because we saw so many new requirements emerge. We had an inbound sales team as well, basically quite a few groups.