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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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Whole Product Game

Tyner Blain

In 1980, Mr. Levitt published his article through the Harvard Business Review – also available for sale as an eDoc through Amazon. Back in 2011, Luke Hohmann introduced me to this concept and technique, and I used it with success with a team I was working with at the time. Whole Product Game Background.

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Unlocking the Power of the Blue Ocean Strategy: A Comprehensive Guide for SaaS Businesses [2023]

Userpilot

It focuses on differentiation and low cost simultaneously to break the value-cost tradeoff. However, many firms fail at successful implementation due to common pitfalls. Blue ocean strategy is especially relevant today as many industries are seeing declining profits and growth due to commoditization and saturation.

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Unlocking the Power of the Blue Ocean Strategy: A Comprehensive Guide for SaaS Businesses [2023]

Userpilot

It focuses on differentiation and low cost simultaneously to break the value-cost tradeoff. However, many firms fail at successful implementation due to common pitfalls. Blue ocean strategy is especially relevant today as many industries are seeing declining profits and growth due to commoditization and saturation.

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Intercom on Product: The principles behind how we build

Intercom, Inc.

Obviously our goal, like any product and engineering team, is to ship great software that customers, love, value use, etc. Paul: “Ship good software.” ” Des: “Ship good software,” or “Design matters,” or you know, “Focus on the user” or whatever. What did they say? Did they react well to it?

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

Intercom, Inc.

I had wanted to be in tech because I’d done a bunch of coding undergrad and engineering undergrad, and as tech started to take off in the mid to late nineties, I knew that I wanted to be in the Bay Area, in Silicon Valley. We were working together as consultants, where we basically designed and built software for other people.

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Behind Every Great Product

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Their code base had diverged and it was extremely slow and costly for Microsoft to be implementing Word separately for each platform: Windows, DOS and Mac. It also meant that there was great pressure to get the release out so they could start to gain the efficiencies of a single code base. In 1993, Word 6.0