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From marketplace to SaaS business: How Udemy acquired 80% of the Fortune 100

Intercom, Inc.

When Yvonne joined in 2016, the business unit consisted of just 10 people across product, engineering, sales, and marketing. Since then, she’s helped grow the Udemy’s B2B SaaS arm to more than 5,000 enterprise customers, which include the likes of Pinterest, Adidas, and General Mills. Yvonne swiftly flipped this story on its head.

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Feature prioritization in product management: the key to building products that sell

Product Management Unpacked

An October 2016 survey by the organization, Mind the Product, asked the question “ What’s your #1 single biggest product management challenge right now?” Forty-nine percent ( 49%) of product managers said this is their biggest challenge, and when responses are added from enterprise software PMs, this figure jumps up to 62%.

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Slack: A Product Led Growth Strategy Case

The Product Coalition

Microsoft launched Team in 2016 and took over many customers of Slack, and currently has almost twice as many daily active users as Slack. The brief background, in the beginning, might have given an idea for solving the differentiation strategy cases. A recent example is Team vs Slack.

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A Primer on Business Strategy From Hamilton Helmer's 7 Powers

Sachin Rekhi

Hamilton published this work in 2016 after a career of working with over 200 clients as a strategy consultant, including Netflix, Spotify, and Adobe. Hamilton narrowly defines a successful strategy as creating a route to persistent differential returns for your business.

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Finding Product-Market Fit – Expert Advice From Prowly’s CEO Joanna Drabent

Userpilot

Joanna founded and ran the Kolko PR agency from 2010 to 2016 where she noticed there was a need to automate the PR processes and there was no tool on the market to make that possible. Going global was difficult for Prowly, but after a year and a half, they found that their differentiating factor was catering to SMBs rather than enterprises.

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

Intercom, Inc.

Adam Risman , a former host of the podcast, asked Rachel what made that point when Rachel joined Slack in 2016 the right time to invest in growth marketing? Rachel Hepworth: We knew we wanted to build the team because we’d already done enough in 2016, mostly before I joined, to know there was value there.

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The Top 10 Deliverables of Product Managers

Sachin Rekhi

For example, here is a video from 2016 that showcases the vision for SpaceX's Interplanetary Transport System which aims to bring the first manned crew to Mars. Sometimes these visions of the future are also shared with existing and potential customers to help portray your company's ambitions.