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The Must-Read Book List for Building New Product Ventures

The Product Coalition

We’re kicking off a new venture with an enterprise tech product at its core. I haven’t included books on consumer-focused products and businesses, because this new venture is selling a software product into enterprise. theories, frameworks and approaches?—?for Lean Startup by Eric Ries?—?Build, Venture Building 1.

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9 essential sales steps you need to grow your SaaS startup

Intercom, Inc.

In the early stages of most SaaS startups’ lives, the CEO or founder often acts as the initial head of sales. The “ Jobs to be Done ” framework is a useful resource to help frame the context from their side of the fence. or doing nothing, is usually the main competitor faced by enterprise sales-people.).

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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. We paused all of our enterprise field sales, but in our HQ, we decided to put the foot down and really go for it. We have business development doing inbound and outbound.

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Get Out of the ARPU-CAC Danger Zone with Channel Model Fit

Brian Balfour

This is part four in a series about 4 Frameworks To Grow To $100M+. The reason is because most startups need to keep their payback period to less than one year. If we were able to analyze all startups every created and classify them if they were in the danger zone, we would find a much higher failure rate.

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Why Most Companies Fail At Moving Up or Down Market

Brian Balfour

This is part five in a series about 4 Frameworks To Grow To $100M+. Marketo Their market is the enterprise. As a result they've differentiated their product on the things that enterprise customers care about: customization, security, and scale (that's their Market Product Fit). Subscribe to get the rest of the series.

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Spendesk’s Nicolas Marchais on evolving with your market

Intercom, Inc.

Spendesk thinks about building its company in three stages: startup, growth, and scale. But we also use new tools such as Intercom to gather intent from inbound leads, or to gather intent from outbound companies that come back to the website. So of course we use LinkedIn, we use social selling, we use email, we use calls, etc.

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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. Moving upmarket: Court enterprise customers. Last season, Stripe’s Jeanne DeWitt shared how the payment-processing company developed “the universe” – a giant database of companies they could target through outbound sales.