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Opportunity Solution Trees: Visualize Your Discovery to Stay Aligned and Drive Outcomes

Product Talk

How does an opportunity solution tree connect with a product vision? Companies differentiate themselves from competitors by building a richer understanding of the opportunity space. Company factors: How does each opportunity support your company mission, vision, and strategic objectives? What is an opportunity solution tree?

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

Userpilot

Product market fit, often just called product/market or “P/M” is one of the most important Lean Startup concepts. 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. Hint: it starts with user feedback.

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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. This is Season Two of Scale , Intercom’s podcast series on moving from startup to scale-up. Turning a sales objection into a unique differentiator. Yvonne swiftly flipped this story on its head.

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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. Historically, Slack relied heavily on virality for its growth. They had occasional advertising here and there.

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The Top 10 Deliverables of Product Managers

Sachin Rekhi

I instead define a product manager as driving the vision, strategy, design, and execution of their product. Vision: Vision Narrative. Most product managers realize that defining a compelling vision for their product is a core responsibility of their role. Vision: Product Walkthrough.

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Stripe’s James Dyett on a customer-first approach to sales

Intercom, Inc.

And so, in 2016, he joined Stripe, where he’s now the Head of Strategic Accounts for the Americas. In the very early days, we had about a dozen or so sales reps, and at the time, we were more focused on startups and mid-market growth technology companies. Sales, he thought, would do just the trick. James: I think that’s right.

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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. Could you talk about how customer experience has helped you to differentiate and how you want to continue along that path? So we decided in 2016 to actually move that office to New York.