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Surfboard founder Natasha Ratanshi-Stein on riding the wave of planning software for support

Intercom, Inc.

Scaling a support team is challenging enough as it is. Maybe you’ve just extended support hours and it’s becoming harder to plan shifts for different time zones; maybe you’re spending hours figuring out schedules for the week ahead; maybe the inflow prediction was a bit off and now your team is under or overstaffed.

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3 Ways To Educate the Market That Actually Work

The Product Coalition

Photo by Oleg Magni from Pexels Educating the market has a bad reputation. Even if you are advertising in order to build your brand (think Coca-Cola or Nike), you are educating the market on the kind of company you are (or the kind you want to be, but that’s for a different post). It’s all about what you want to educate them on.

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Should Product Managers build mission-driven products?

BrainMates

The gap between rich and poor is widening, and this is causing an increasing disenchantment with the model which has been so successful. More and more companies and brands are defining their purpose and using it as a guide to how they do business. Our world is in the midst of some seismic changes.

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Is the Freemium Business Model Right for Your SaaS?

Userpilot

However, our State of SaaS Product Onboarding study we did in 2020 (2021 report coming soon!) Of the 1000 companies we signed up for to study their onboarding, 73% of B2C companies offered a free or freemium product, and 86% of B2B brands offered a free trial instead of freemium. found something interesting to add to this debate.

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Succeeding with Product Delivery and Scrum: 10 Tips for Product People

Roman Pichler

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] 1 Complement Scrum with a Product Discovery and Strategy Process Scrum is a simple framework that helps teams develop successful products. Continue the discovery and strategy work while the product is being developed. But don’t stop there.

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Growth, Funding, Pivotal Moments and the Evolution of Adzerk to Kevel

Business of Software Conference

So, this was focused on software developers, specifically, for dotnet software developers, this very small ad network, I ran those ad networks for a couple years, and realized that that was a terrible business. And I was a software developer before. The Good and the Bad of Taking Money. 2:43 Mark: Yeah.

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Reflecting on the Intercom journey – Karen Peacock and Des Traynor in conversation

Intercom, Inc.

If 2020 taught us anything, it’s that a passive attitude towards non-discrimination isn’t enough. Think about what you could be doing to bring more diversity into your teams and be more inclusive as a company, and go actively out of your way in order to achieve set goals. Des, thanks very much for joining me today.