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Startup marketing: strategies for year one

Intercom, Inc.

The most important tasks for any early stage startup are to write code and talk to users. About 50 percent of my time was spent communicating with potential users, whether that was asking them to try Intercom over email, meeting them at conferences, responding to them in blog comments or talking to them on Hacker News.

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Why The Product Demo Is a Dangerous Selling Tool

The Product Coalition

Many startups feel that the only thing preventing them from selling their product is a great demo. Here’s how to use your product demo smartly, and avoid demo abuse. Photo by Pixabay on Pexels When I joined eBay back in 2011, the largest group on the Israeli R&D center was actually a content operations group.

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Customer Development Guide For Product Managers

The Product Coalition

It was launched in 2011 and went broke in 2013 because people didn’t buy the product. It’s obvious that these tools were developed with little or no customer participation. The authors relied on their intuition or professionalism, and didn’t account for the most important factor in product creation?

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What we learned moving sales and product upmarket together

Intercom, Inc.

As Intercom’s customer base moved upmarket, it became increasingly obvious to us in Sales that what worked well in our product for early-stage startups didn’t for larger companies. To fix it, we had to change how we worked with our product team. Trial and error: adding sales input to the product roadmap.

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3 Creative Levels in Your Product Career

The Product Coalition

The product was still young but already well-defined and deployed on customers’ networks. I did a lot of work there on improving the product and making it more suitable for the market, easier to sell and deploy, and contributed directly to the product’s success and business growth throughout my time there.

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Five Berlin Design Studios to Work With in 2021

UX Studio: Product Management

UX studio is an expert design company that helps businesses worldwide design impactful digital products. Apart from working with established brands and startups, we assess the expertise of various companies and create our independent rating list of trustworthy design companies. If you need a reliable design partner now, contact us.

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More Awesome Speakers for #mtpcon SF 2017

Mind the Product

He was the product lead for growth and relevance at Twitter, growing Twitter’s active user base by nearly 10x. Josh was an early employee at LinkedIn and helped establish early models for user growth and launched v1 of LinkedIn Jobs. Nate then became the Chief of Research and Innovation at Tanner Labs, where he built O.C.