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How to build a billion dollar sales team like Stripe

Intercom, Inc.

The fastest growing software companies in recent years all have something in common – they started with little to no sales team. Yes, Slack started off with no sales team. Yes, Dropbox started off with no traditional sales team. Back in 2016, this is exactly the situation Stripe found themselves in.

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Virtual reality and your product development process

Mind the Product

After years of false starts and incremental improvements, 2016 is the year where virtual reality (VR) has finally arrived. billion in investment occurred in Q1 2016 alone. As we look at what it takes to develop non-gaming VR products, their separation from gaming becomes very important. According to Digi-Capital, $1.1

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Concept Testing Examples and Methods for SaaS

Userpilot

Book a demo and get started! Let’s delve into the key benefits of concept tests: Build Lasting Customer Relationships : When you actively involve your customers in the development phase, it’s not just about getting feedback. Airbnb failed to concept test its logo and faced ridicule due to its design.

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Why Experiment?

Amplitude

. — Jeff Bezos, 2016 Letter to Shareholders. To thrive, your team must learn faster than the competition AND convert that learning into value faster than the competition. We design and build for product development teams acting and learning continuously in the trenches, not data-snacking or planning big-bang yearly releases.

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SaaS is Helping to Re-engineer the Caregiving Service in Farming

The Product Coalition

Chris’s team worked for a logistics service that tracked the ocean containers coming in and out of the ports. Their team set up the infrastructure and prepared the environment waiting for prospective accounts, which never came. In the fall of 2016, Chris had many meetings with potential contractors.

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Why I Moved From Customer Success to Product-led Growth

Gainsight

In those six years leading the team, I’ve led its growth from one person to 180 people that are now spread across five different functional teams: Customer Success Manager (CSM), Partner Success Manager (PSM), Professional Services, Support, and CS Ops. And yeah, we offered excellent customer service through our CS team.

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Chili Piper’s Co-Founder Alina Vandenberghe on bootstrapping your way to success

Intercom, Inc.

Alina Vandenberghe is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Chili Piper , an inbound conversion software that helps sales teams automatically schedule appointments and instantly turn leads into qualified meetings. In 2016, she created Chili Piper with her husband Nicolas and poured in everything she had learned over the years.