PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

As an undergraduate, I participated in Model UN, where students create a mock UN Conference and debate societal issues like climate change. If you’re in marketing, for example, aim to work in inbound marketing, where you work on getting feedback from customers to influence the product.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Several recognitions, including The Economic Times Startup Award as the 2021 Bootstrap Champ. In the same year of its launch, Saravana closed on 5 inbound enterprise customers for BizTalk360. is a leading enterprise organization powering top companies worldwide, including the BBC, Novartis, and Pfizer. 2,000+ customers. 5 products.

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Gainsight

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Case in point: during an executive briefing presented at an event by The Conference Board in Canada, online learning pioneer and Bluedrop founder Emad Rizkalla stated that a massive 85% of every dollar that goes to in-person training is spent delivering it. They’re not just creating great users of their software.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 12, 2021

Early in 2017, Dan joined the speech analytics startup TalkIQ, which would later be acquired by Dialpad, as their CEO. Prior to joining Dialpad, I was the CEO of a speech analytics startup called TalkIQ. Voice is this last offline dataset,” he tells us. We raised about 22 million in funding, backed by Salesforce ventures.

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Amplitude

JULY 17, 2019

Top episodes we love: Bootstrapping a SaaS Startup with Laura Roeder: With the help of guest speaker, Laura Roeder , this podcast covers how to bootstrap a SaaS business rather than fund, as well as how to succeed without a freemium model, how to identify an appropriate price point, and how to get to market effectively.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

As an undergraduate, I participated in Model UN, where students create a mock UN Conference and debate societal issues like climate change. If you’re in marketing, for example, aim to work in inbound marketing, where you work on getting feedback from customers to influence the product.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Spendesk thinks about building its company in three stages: startup, growth, and scale. But you’ve done other stuff as well, I suppose, that’s a little bit more “confetti”: you’ve gone to SaaStock and offered people free Wi-Fi, you’ve hidden credit cards around conferences. Nico: Of course.

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Business of Software Conference

MAY 21, 2020

The best candidates they have their pick of where to work and it’s really hard for small startup to compete. So, against this calibre of competition how does a small startup managed to remain competitive? There’s inbound hiring and there’s outbound hiring. Inbound hiring is when the candidate comes to you.

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Pragmatic Marketing

OCTOBER 11, 2019

So I moved into that in Google when this startup had acquired and then four years ago, I joined HubSpot, to really, really focus on that. I've seen some startups and some companies do a launch every week, for instance. You guys just did inbound like in the last couple of weeks. And you've kind of cried wolf too many times.

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Pragmatic Marketing

OCTOBER 11, 2019

So I moved into that in Google when this startup had acquired and then four years ago, I joined HubSpot, to really, really focus on that. I've seen some startups and some companies do a launch every week, for instance. You guys just did inbound like in the last couple of weeks. And you've kind of cried wolf too many times.

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Product launches Research Software User Testing Product Research 70

Business of Software Conference

JANUARY 16, 2020

Want us to let you know about new talk videos, speaker AMAs, Business of Software Conference and other event updates? April Dunford (Founder/CEO, Ambient Strategy) – Positioning for Growth: How To Make Complex Products Obviously Awesome from Business of Software Conference. I got a job at a startup. Unsubscribe anytime.

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Oren Steinberg

MARCH 7, 2017

How can startups work with large corporations? B2B and B2B2C startups trying to sell into large corporations know this all too well: big companies like to work with other big companies. If you’re a startup or even a growth stage company trying to sell into large corporation, you lag behind larger players by sheer DNA.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 5, 2019

You have a huge pile of leads based on inbound and outbound marketing, the pool is winnowed down based on their interest, ability to pay, etc., Also, if you’re still in the early stages of a startup, you’ll be spending a lot of time trying to convince them it’s worth their time. The Product Management Talent Funnel.

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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.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 16, 2019

Excerpt from “ What is the optimal structure of a startup SaaS B2B sales team? ”. It’s perfect for mature startups trying to optimize existing sales resources to tap into new markets and verticals. Is your model primarily inbound or outbound? Sales doesn’t need to be a cost center. Steli Efti, CEO, Close.io.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

For the next decade, he ran ProfitWell as a bootstrapped startup, slowly growing its reach until earlier this year, he sold the company to Paddle , a billing and payments company, in a $200 million deal. Take advantage of conferences and events to network and build trust with your peers. Hold on to it – it’s what keeps you going.

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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. Tim Barker, CEO, DataSift.

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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. Why you need a mechanism for free acquisition.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 12, 2018

One-on-one meetings and conference calls are Zoom’s bread and butter, but it’s also a damn fine tool for hosting webinars that can drive people to your website. In fact, they often have little insight into whether or not reps have actually advanced inbound leads or not. Ahrefs lets you do all that and more. Zoom – webinars.

Analytic Tools 223

Analytic Tools Research Software Feedback Software Reporting Tools 223

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

We’re also good at inbound marketing, it turns out, so that has been pivotal to our success. They’re created by inbound demand. When most people at startups think about the early journey, they’re thinking about product-market fit and the right groups of people to actually use this product. Can I get them to use it?

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 29, 2018

Eric: I was leading growth at an online education startup called Treehouse, a company I still love, and that led to the opportunity to come to Single Grain. The interesting thing is that the way we get our clients right now is strictly around content marketing, inbound and SEO. Adam: All your clients today are inbound.

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