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In the early stages of most SaaS startups’ lives, the CEO or founder often acts as the initial head of sales. This makes sense given the likely resource constraints and the value to be gained from getting in front of customers from day one. Meet your target users and get feedback. That way, she knows.
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Previously, however, he ran sales productivity for teams at Google, Salesforce and Box. His time at the latter culminated in the title of Chief Storyteller, where he rewrote the script for how Box sales team talked to and about their customers. But customers want to know about themselves. Coining sales productivity.
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I had been working for a startup that had run into some financial problems. They already had a product manager and so I was going to be the external product manager who dealt with customers, competition, trade shows, etc. It turns out that in this startup, back in the early days the CEO would walk around. For a year and a half.
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. The nice thing about HubSpot, is we have a great product teams with good user researchers and UX designers and product designers who will do a ton of customer interviews beforehand.
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” And in Intercom and elsewhere, we’ve been thinking about what that actually means for startups, for seed-stage companies, all the way through to mid and late-stage companies. Let’s just take, as a target case, a PM or a manager of PMs in a startup who’s being told, “Hey, let’s go and accelerate.”
Over 30 years Stephen has seen the evolution of software and tech companies with a fascinating career spanning computers, strategy, software , universities, chairing 8 companies, Government, and most recently in AI gaining a wealth of experience and some great insights to share. or a consultant or thinking about doing a startup?
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