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On Product Marketing at Uber

Pragmatic Marketing

Founded in 2009 and officially launched in 2011, Uber Technologies Inc. revolutionized the direct transportation market. Laura Jones is head of product marketing at Uber and recently participated in an AMA on influencing the product roadmap via Sharebird , a place to see how people at top companies do product marketing.

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On Product Marketing at Uber

Pragmatic Marketing

Founded in 2009 and officially launched in 2011, Uber Technologies Inc. revolutionized the direct transportation market. Laura Jones is head of product marketing at Uber and recently participated in an AMA on influencing the product roadmap via Sharebird , a place to see how people at top companies do product marketing.

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Why The Product Demo Is a Dangerous Selling Tool

The Product Coalition

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. Your Customers Don’t Want Your Product Of course, eventually, they do. Here we go.

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Product Channel Fit Will Make or Break Your Growth Strategy

Brian Balfour

This is part 3 in a series about the growth frameworks companies need to grow to $100M+ Part One: Introduction & Why Product Market Fit Isn't Enough. The Road to a $100M Company Doesn’t Start with Product. Which brings us to part three: Product Channel Fit. Channels do not mold to products.

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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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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. Absolutely not.

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