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Moving upmarket as a product manager: What changes and what stays the same?

Intercom, Inc.

This is a natural evolution for many SaaS tools as they move towards a healthier economic model, as captured in Christoph Janz’s seminal 2014 blog. During a conversation on the Intercom on Product podcast , Des Traynor and Paul Adams discussed the competition between startups and incumbents. Whoever does it fastest will win.

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Three million downloads and counting: Inside Intercom reaches a podcasting milestone

Intercom, Inc.

Along the way, we’ve interviewed trailblazers, business leaders, makers and doers to share their experience and insights on all things startup strategy, product management, design, marketing, customer experience, and much, much more. Here’s Rachel. For Slack, that was clearly the engineering and dev communities, who love new tools.

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Speed and Substance: How To Innovate Consumer Insights

The Product Coalition

That’s why product leaders like Stefan Röse of the insights automation startup Quantilope focus on providing researchers with high-quality data as quickly as possible. Stefan Röse Stefan is the Senior Director, Strategic Accounts EMEA at Quantilope, a German-founded company established in 2014.

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Jonathan Anguelov on Aircall’s $65 million Series C success

Intercom, Inc.

Jonathan, you mentioned Aircall’s original vision and mission back in 2014 when you got started was to reinvent the business phone. Jonathan: Back in 2014, we thought, “Okay, we need to be able to build a phone system that any entrepreneur can use anywhere in the world.” Jonathan: Definitely.

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Decentralized Social Media Platforms?—?The Only Guide You Need to Read

The Product Coalition

Differentiating from Centralized Social Media Decentralized platforms have a unique superpower — censorship resistance. If the big city social media platforms were the established corporations, Friend.tech and Tip Coin would be the startups in a trendy tech district, pioneering fresh ideas.

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How Mobile Market Industry Leader Adjust Became a Japanese Success Story

freshtrax

Q: Adjust expanded to Japan in 2014. It’s the competitive differentiator for Japanese apps who want to enter the market both domestically and abroad. and cybersecurity startup Unbotify in February 2019. A: Many startups initially hire a sales director who is a potential candidate for the general manager position.

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Breaking Into Enterprise Customers at Shopify

Business of Software Conference

Shopify Plus was launched in 2014 to offer large & hypergrowth businesses a customizable enterprise platform without the cost of existing options. I can’t help thinking this is a way of experimenting in the greatest tradition of the Lean Startup. Breaking Into Enterprise Customers at Shopify. What do they want?