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I’ve abandoned “MVP”

Mironov Consulting

We spin up outbound marketing/support efforts too early. No BS, no positioning, no obfuscation. Stakeholders keep expanding the definition of ‘done’, since we can’t ship a real revenue product without features A, B, C, X, Y and Z. This short-circuits learning and slows down delivery.

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How to build, manage and scale a sales team – 12 strategies from the experts

Intercom, Inc.

If you’ve established your market and have significant traction, organizing your teams into pods creates a highly flexible, agile salesforce that’s ready to meet a variety of challenges and pounce on new opportunities. Is your model primarily inbound or outbound? it all “works”. How much influence do reps have on the buying decision?

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productboard Portal closes the gap between product teams and their customers

ProductBoard

User feedback and feature voting forums have existed even longer, but have a poor reputation for collecting low quality user inputs, and unreliable data due to bandwagon behavior and virtuous cycles where popular features are the best positioned to collect additional upvotes.

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Empathy -- Lead with your EARS and not with your MOUTH

Bain Public

At times, that requires a lot of diplomacy and emotional agility. Product Managers translate between the need to support the effectiveness of outbound activities (Sales, Marketing, Customer support) and the need for efficiency in internal ones (Strategy, Engineering, UX). with emotions, egos, unique styles, and different goals?—?the