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Spendesk’s Nicolas Marchais on evolving with your market

Intercom, Inc.

So they created a software that provides control, visibility, and payment methods for corporate finance teams. Spendesk thinks about building its company in three stages: startup, growth, and scale. Nico: Definitely. If people aren’t looking for your solution, you have to educate them about the problem your product solves.

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Sales Hacker?s Max Altschuler on selling more with less

Intercom, Inc.

Whether you’re at an early-stage startup that’s just made its first sales hires, or part of a fast-moving sales team in a large organization, the key to success often comes down to efficiency. But I couldn’t raise the money for the startup; this was 2009, right after the recession. Starting sales from scratch.

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BrowserStack’s Mark Rudden on hypergrowth in a global pandemic

Intercom, Inc.

If there’s anything we’ve learned when it comes to working in hypergrowth startups is that you’re not really supposed to have it all figured out on the first try. And you definitely felt that. We have business development doing inbound and outbound. Iterate, iterate, iterate. You felt how fast it was growing. And I got it.

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What 14 startup investors and advisors taught us about chasing (and finding) product-market fit

Mixpanel

It’s been a long-held notion in startup circles that lack of product-market fit will doom even the scrappiest of teams to fail. And beyond the anecdotal, an often-cited 2019 study CB Insights found that “no market need” was the leading reason most startups don’t succeed. ” Credit: The Lean Startup Playbook. In short, yes.

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How to achieve 2,500% revenue growth: 5 lessons from Paddle’s Ed Fry

Intercom, Inc.

This is Season Two of Scale , Intercom’s podcast series on moving from startup to scale-up. A genius inbound marketing strategy. Going East is definitely the area of focus in the future. Listen to the full episode above or check out our main takeaways below. Salesforce? Directly to Asia and the Middle East.

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Webflow’s Maggie Hott on building a scaleable sales team from the ground up

Intercom, Inc.

When it comes to launching sales teams in hyper-growth startups, few people have walked the walk as much as Maggie Hott. “Give away your legos” and other commandments for scaling startups. I’m now Director of Sales, leading sales globally for Webflow, which is a really, really fast-growing startup.

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Reflecting on the Intercom journey – Karen Peacock and Des Traynor in conversation

Intercom, Inc.

And let me tell you, it was definitely not at all cool at that time, but it inspired me to realize that there are some things that humans are particularly great at doing, and then there are things that we can automate in ways that make people’s lives better. And so after a few more years doing that, I left and joined a startup.