UX Studio

APRIL 6, 2023

As a global design agency, we collaborate with both startups and enterprises worldwide and have broad experience in nearly every niche and industry. They’ve worked with all kinds of businesses, from startups to established enterprises, in a wide variety of industries.

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Brian Balfour

JULY 18, 2017

The reason is because most startups need to keep their payback period to less than one year. In the B2B world you also have B2B products like MailChimp, Slack, or SurveyMonkey that live on this end of the spectrum as they take advantage of viral and paid channels to drive most of their volume.

User Testing 65

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

As Head of Sales for Spendesk, Nico was initially inspired by the vision of founder Rodolphe Ardant who had spotted a gap for ‘spend management’ in the B2B market based on personal banking trends. Spendesk thinks about building its company in three stages: startup, growth, and scale.

Feedback Software 162

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Userpilot

MARCH 15, 2022

GTM strategies are important because they help you build and launch better products at the right time, reducing the chances of your startup failing. For B2B SaaS businesses like Salesforce and Microsoft whose products require more hands-on guidance with a longer sales cycle, a sales-led growth strategy is advisable. Slack and Dropbox.

Research Software 94

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 16, 2019

The classic example sees a company move from niche startup to mainstream scale-up, but it can also see companies hone their product-market fit by focusing on a more specialized, and yet more lucrative, user base. If your application is a self-service one, focus on content and inbound marketing as your primary source of leads.

Strategy 195

Strategy Customer Experience Inbound User Testing 195

Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 6, 2019

A predictive lead scoring tool for B2B SaaS companies, MadKudu’s strategy is all about integrating with other platforms – including Intercom – to link customer intelligence and customer engagement. One sure sign of a key brand is if the vast majority of your lead generation is from inbound, organic results.

Analytic Tools 190

Analytic Tools Data Visualization Customer Experience Inbound 190

Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 24, 2019

Mike has been in and around startups for the better part of three decades: as a consultant, as a co-founder and now as the Managing Director of Salesforce Incubator, which propels new startups into the marketplace. He joined me for a chat that ranged from the role of AI to how they choose startups to incubate. Short on time?

Analytic Tools 151

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 16, 2019

Most users view a product only through the lens of their own use, not through the needs and habits of all the users in their enterprise (which is a view someone at the top, such as a Chief Information Officer, is more likely to have). Excerpt from “ What is the optimal structure of a startup SaaS B2B sales team? ”.

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Weak Development Team Data Visualization Strategy User Testing 156

Gainsight

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

For instance, business-to-business (B2B) software companies are also looking at customer training not just as a way to teach people how to use their product, but also as a way for their customers to be more successful at work. It’s not surprising that the first customer trainer at many SaaS startups is the founder of the company.

Education 52

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 10, 2018

Andrew’s been an angel investor and advisor for a slew of name-brand startups; however, he’s most widely known for his invaluable essays on growth. I’ve known Marc and Ben for a long time, and they originally seed-funded a startup of mine many years ago.

User Testing 224

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 29, 2020

And so after a few more years doing that, I left and joined a startup. And that was my first time in enterprise software – I’d spent some time in consumer software before that and did that for a few years. At the same time, I was doing a bunch of startup advisor work. Karen: That’s a good value prop.

Feedback Software 209

Feedback Software Research Software Reporting Tools User Testing 209

Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 31, 2019

When you say, “We’re not going to do enterprise sales,” and then a massive company waves a massive number of potential dollars in your face, it’s easy to compromise when you haven’t written that out explicitly. For us, it was clear that startups and small businesses were the types of businesses we understood. Speed is everything.

Customer Experience 165

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

So, for example, if it’s a big company that comes in, say, someone from Intercom, and signs up for the trial, sales is going to know that, and they’re going to react to that quicker than they’re going to react to a small startup that started to use the product. There are two other considerations, as well.

Research Software 139

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Andrew Chen

MAY 14, 2018

I’ve known Marc and Ben for a long time, and they originally seed-funded a startup of mine many years ago. When I think about growth and Dropbox, Drew Houston’s classic talk from the 2010 Startup Lessons Learned Conference immediately comes to mind. You’ve also worked with Dropbox, who just had their very successful IPO.

User Testing 71

User Testing Customer Experience Onboarding KPIs Data Visualization 71

Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Tim Barker has established three startups and has seen the ups and downs of the startup journey, from his first business being acquired by Salesforce – where he spent five years in the formative age of cloud computing – to his current company DataSift being acquired by Meltwater in 2018. This is a B2B product.

Customer Experience 8

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Business of Software Conference

JANUARY 16, 2020

We’re going to switch gears a little bit here and what I want to do is I want to spend the next hour, hopefully, teaching you something about what I think is one of the most powerful tools we have at our disposal – particularly in startups – and in my experience. I got a job at a startup. Positioning.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

What typically happens to tech companies is they start off maybe in mid market, and they decide very quickly to go to enterprise. We’re also good at inbound marketing, it turns out, so that has been pivotal to our success. That’s where software is going in the B2B space and it turns out that was a pretty good decision.

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