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Spendesk’s Nicolas Marchais on evolving with your market

Intercom, Inc.

Here are five quick takeaways: The founders of Spendesk noticed that, while the B2C space was innovating with peer-to-peer quickpay options, nothing like that existed in the B2B space (which often lags a few years behind the consumer market).

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Understanding Enterprise Product Companies

Mironov Consulting

I’m often asked by B2C product managers how B2B companies are different, or about switching between the two. What’s Enterprise? Business-to-consumer (B2C) targets individuals and families. Another fuzzy line divides SMB (small/medium businesses) from enterprises. Unstated B2C Assumptions. What’s B2B?

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Starter KPIs for B2B/Enterprise

Mironov Consulting

I’m often asked what KPIs B2B/enterprise product folks should use, or what OKRs they should choose. Why KPIs from consumer companies don’t fit well with B2B/enterprise. Just as every organization needs a finance/accounting team that follows GAAP and tracks cashflow. But I find they don’t map well to enterprise companies.

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Who’s who: Understanding your business with customer segmentation

Intercom, Inc.

Indeed, among our customers were B2C companies, small businesses, and large enterprises along with customers in places and industries well beyond Silicon Valley. For example, our Finance team is now able to confirm whether new customer growth is up in our target segments. Assessing progress on our strategy.

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Hiring a Head of Product

Mironov Consulting

When hiring a CFO (aka Head of Finance), they ask about previous experience managing cash flow, payroll, and accounts receivable teams. When considering VP Marketing hires, they push on positioning, messaging, MQL funnels, social media engagement, and broad marketing strategy. And I almost never buy it. Sound Byte.

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Why building for enterprises may seem like feeding an elephant?

The Product Coalition

Understanding how B2B product management is a different ball game altogether Product folks who have worked on the early stage enterprise products may relate with the title. Building an enterprise product is a whole lot different from building a consumer product. This is because, for most for B2C products, the user is also the customer.

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Mismatched Expectations: Product Information and Sales Teams

Mironov Consulting

Lately, I’ve been writing a lot about entirely predictable goal misalignments between the maker side (product, engineering, design) and the go-to-market side (sales, marketing, customer success) of tech firms, especially at B2B/enterprise software companies.  That  This is a must-close.”