Intercom, Inc.

MAY 31, 2022

CX for Growth is a webinar series hosted by the Startups team at Intercom, a casual, interview-style monthly session featuring special guests and exploring customer experience topics that help to drive growth in your business. How to bake in a process and culture of customer feedback. What did we learn?

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 5, 2021

One of the challenges the agile transition team was concerned about was the choice of the right product backlog tool, which at first seemed odd to me. Another time, I was asked to help a team of a major charity in the UK whose task was to create a new website for their fund-raising campaigns. The Product Backlog is Too Big.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] 1 Complement Scrum with a Product Discovery and Strategy Process Scrum is a simple framework that helps teams develop successful products. Otherwise, you might ask the wrong people for feedback on the increments and hence draw the wrong conclusions. But don’t stop there.

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Alchemer Mobile

JULY 11, 2019

How long does an application have to prove itself, before the user moves on to something else? As a mobile product manager, you have three days to delight your user before they turn to one of your competitors. As a mobile product manager, you have three days to delight your user before they turn to one of your competitors.

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Lenny Rachitsky

MAY 20, 2025

Along the way, he helped Square scale from a late-stage pre-IPO startup to $3.6 Prior to Square, Saumil was a startup founder for LocBox, a marketing automation company that was acquired by Square in 2015. How do I help line managers deal with IC performance issues on their team instead of dealing with them myself?

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 31, 2024

You get something that truly works for you, and we get to connect with people who value what we offer and have the potential to become power users (and sources of sustainable revenue!). Trying to bring in as many users as possible, only to see most of them lose interest before their free trial is even over. The alternative?

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The Product Guy

MARCH 14, 2017

The developers sitting nearby just watched the show for the first time, but after a while they stood up to join the party one by one. Soon the whole team was standing behind the designer’s screen shouting new ideas and tips about the layout, the colors, the icons, the fonts and everything else. What to expect from a design team?

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Usersnap

MARCH 24, 2025

The team spent months building it, yet users dont see its value. It helps teams uncover real user needs, validate assumptions, and reduce development risks before committing time and resources. It is an actual team effort involving all stakeholders to foster diverse expertise and unique perspectives.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 18, 2024

We covered how to manage messy opportunity solution trees , the most common challenges teams face when getting started with the discovery habits, what Im working on next, and so much more. Discovery is a team sport. I did classic web development before there were frameworks back in the ’90s. I think that was in 2004.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

TL; DR: How to Make Agile Work in Fast-Growing Startups For years, I worked in several Berlin-based, fast-growing startups in my capacity as Scrum Master, agile coach, and Product Owner. work in a fast-growing startup. Also, let me introduce you to the anti-patterns agile startups shall avoid at all costs. ??

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

The latter would work with one or more development teams to get the specification implemented. During the development phase, the product manager would be only loosely involved, typically attending a project steering meeting and possibly issuing change requests. But it is less suited to create complex digital products.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 10, 2020

Also known as Product Intuition or Product Instinct or Product Taste, it is the idea that you can use your own judgment to (1) accurately predict what your customers need, want and value, and (2) design and ship the right solution for them. I hope this post allows people and teams to safely talk about Product Judgment. Who has it?

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 18, 2022

Recently one of the founders of a hot startup asked me, “How do we know if we should add new value props for existing customers or continue to invest in existing ones? The initial phases 2 and 3 (the time between startups raising Series A to raising Series B) play a massive role in achieving the 2T3D growth dream.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 16, 2022

This is my 4th startup and have seen many ups and down in my decade long journey. I saw quick explosive growth in my mobile gaming startup, an acquisition of my payment startup, failure of an AI based startup and numerous pivots in between. But the startup bug in me is too strong and I decided to startup again.

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Alchemer Mobile

JUNE 23, 2025

It gives you the ongoing, actionable insights you need to grow market share, secure stakeholder buy-in, and optimize your brand strategy. Brand health tracking is a continuous process of measuring how customers perceive and interact with your brand over time. That’s where brand health tracking comes in.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 3, 2018

How can we help our users complete their job-to-be-done cheaper, faster or easier? Finding those problems to solve, however, becomes increasingly difficult as you scale – where the volume of feedback, and noise level of the vocal minority, compounds by the day. To this day, Rohini continues to cold-call customers.

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 27, 2022

Later I founded a startup and then worked in business development at Microsoft. I realized I was most excited about the solution and customer experience. The startup I founded in 1999 with my brother was a good example. It was decent, but we had poor bandwidth and the content was not great.

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UX Planet

MARCH 29, 2025

There may be times when you question yourself, or someone on your team wonders, Why are we doing it this way? In any case, hang around because well go over why UX design strategy is crucial, how to create one, and what the problems arefor you, your team, and, most importantly, your customers. Heres the thingyoudo.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 12, 2025

She’s also the co-founder of the startup bootcamp Transparent Collective and is an active angel investor. She’s also the co-founder of the startup bootcamp Transparent Collective and is an active angel investor. They should be directly involved in understanding the customer and the solution.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

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. What matters is that somehow, someway, you still get those 10 paying customers closed.”.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Strategy and enabling your team to solve problems makes the difference between a boss and an impactful leader. Without well-researched facts that are based on reality for your company and customers ( insights ), you won’t make good decisions. He asked quite innocently in front of my new team, “what’s the product strategy?”

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 15, 2022

Product teams often fall into the trap of spending most of their time on the core functionality of the products they’re building. Without an accessible onboarding process , customers may never reach the stage where they can use the game-changing features your team has worked so hard to build, making outcomes difficult to achieve.

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Productside

MARCH 24, 2025

Productside | Product Management Courses & Training Refining Product-Market Fit and Scaling B2B SaaS Products Most startups dont stall because of bad ideasthey stall because they stop refining their product-market fit and what works. It was all about understanding customer needs and delivering something that solved a real problem.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

Soon after, a backlash followed, and users flooded social media with complaints. Many product teams fall into the same trapmistaking engagement for success. When users interact more, it may seem like a win. Numbers alone can be misleading higher engagement doesnt always mean user satisfaction. The problem?

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Minimum Viable Products: Why You Should Test Before Investing In Ideas Let’s analyze the advantages of MVP-based software development. Why should you invest in MVP development? You can successfully prevent these problems by starting software development with a Minimum Viable Product (MVP). First, the developers create a wheel.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

One of our mantras here at Intercom is that customer retention is the new conversion. In an era when more and more businesses adopt a subscription model, strong customer retention is the key to sustainable long-term growth and requires a laser-like focus. . How Jobs-to-be-Done unlocks customer empathy.

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Usersnap

MAY 14, 2025

“If you have 10 teams decorating the hood of a car with rhinestones, the hood gets so heavy you can’t lift it to fix the engine anymore. Thats what product development feels like in most organizations.” This ensures that the product not only addresses real user problems but also aligns with business goals.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 7, 2023

How to prepare for a user interview, all the way to sharing the results with your team. The skill of running effective user interviews is key to defining your target users, finding product-market fit , growing your product, figuring out what to build next — or just simply understanding how users perceive your product.

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Arkenea

JANUARY 13, 2025

The one thing startup accelerators don’t ensure is success of your startup. DropBox, AirBnB and Quora – all these companies went through a startup accelerator program. But applying for an accelerator program is a major decision for any startup; and there are some distinct pros and cons. 100-120K of funding.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Highly effective Product Managers develop themselves in 5 key areas. In some jobs, you can get by with just Competence, but in the unkempt, fuzzy, team-oriented domain of Product Management, you need both. the craft of product management, creating customer and business value) 2. Craft Competence ?? Market Competence ?????

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

As a brand new company, you might engage in plenty of initiatives that are inherently un-scalable – because there’s no better way to nurture customer love than through a personal relationship. It’s time to start thinking about retention at scale and bring onboard a customer success team. Why you need a customer success team.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 14, 2018

Looking for an example of a happy, high performing product team? Rather than suggesting a model startup, advisor and author Laura Klein is likely to point you toward her favorite heist film. I was working with a bunch of different companies and teams of all different sizes. Balancing business goals with user needs.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

Why have Product Managers stopped speaking to customers? Very sadly, most product managers I meet today no longer talk directly to customers regularly. If you ask; “How many customers did you speak to this week?” My view is that this evolution is bad for product management careers and the customers who benefit from what we do.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 31, 2019

As part of the process, we’ve spent a lot of time reviewing who we should be selling to these days, and how we should be selling to these customers. And as the organization grows, the work involved to get teams aligned on who you’re selling to and how you’re selling is not something to be taken for granted either. What didn’t?

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Userpilot

MAY 8, 2024

Have you been struggling to engage users and keep them coming back to your product? Or are you looking for ways to expand your user base to new demographics? In either case, using a product analytics tool to perform user needs analysis is the way to go. Based on the insights, you can inform your future product development.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 5, 2018

If users don’t stick around, they won’t learn and inevitably won’t share Duolingo with their friends. In her five years there, she helped take Duolingo from 3 million users to more than 200 million. In her five years there, she helped take Duolingo from 3 million users to more than 200 million.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Stefan Röse breaks down how Quantilope is pushing forward customer development and the consumer research field. That’s why product leaders like Stefan Röse of the insights automation startup Quantilope focus on providing researchers with high-quality data as quickly as possible. While flying from the U.K. to the U.S.,

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