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Best Product Growth Platforms for SaaS

Userpilot

By turning your product itself into a viral sales engine, these platforms take the pressure off traditional sales and marketing departments — and, of course, their associated budgets. Sales-based growth meant sending thousands of outbound messages in an attempt to find the key decision-maker, shorten the sales cycle, and close aggressively.

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Kevin Indig on searching for meaning and the meaning of search

Intercom, Inc.

We look at the death of the 10 blue links and why Google is now an answer engine as opposed to a search engine. And that got me started thinking about this concept of search engines and that’s where it all came from. Atlassian does not have an outbound sales team. Kevin: Yeah, that’s true.

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Finding & Nurturing Top Talent | Elpie Bannister & Alex Yang | BoS Europe 2019

Business of Software Conference

Alex Yang // VP of Engineering, Simprints. Everyone knows that hiring engineers is really hard. of engineering where I lead the people and processes side for the engineering team. There’s inbound hiring and there’s outbound hiring. Outbound hiring is the opposite.

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Product Service Management as a Growth Lever in your SaaS

Userpilot

For a prime example of how effective a PLG-based approach can be, consider the massive success Slack has achieved since its inception in 2013. Regarding marketing, your focus will be less on attracting new users through outbound means—and more on keeping new users engaged through various lifecycle marketing tactics.

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Why Product Needs to Work with Customer Success to Achieve PLG

Userpilot

For a prime example of how effective a PLG-based approach can be, consider the massive success Slack has achieved since its inception in 2013. Regarding marketing, your focus will be less on attracting new users through outbound means—and more on keeping new users engaged through various lifecycle marketing tactics.

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The Accidental Product Manager: From Cars To Games To Google

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

When I interned at Ford in 2013 the automotive industry was on the rebound and in-car infotainment experiences were the next big thing. At Amazon, most PMs are more outbound than inbound and don’t necessarily work as close to engineers at Google, but that tends to change depending on geography as well.