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To PLG or not to PLG

The Product Coalition

There’s lots of writing about Product Led Growth (PLG). Yet I’ve read relatively little about the key question: when should a startup even try to take the PLG route? Specifically, if you’re planning on enterprise contracts of $10k+ a year, those are almost impossible to do with PLG. And I’ve heard many misconceptions about it.

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Finding Product-Market Fit – Expert Advice From Prowly’s CEO Joanna Drabent

Userpilot

Product market fit, often just called product/market or “P/M” is one of the most important Lean Startup concepts. There is a lot of information out there about why it’s important for having a successful product and grow your business, but finding out how to achieve product-market fit can still feel elusive.

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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’m eager to see the founding team we’ve put together succeed, so I’ve put together a list of books that contain the ideas that I’ve found most useful for a new product venture at this stage (getting from 0.1 Lean Startup by Eric Ries?—?Build,

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

Brian Balfour

The difference between these two are not the common mantras of build a great product, product market fit is the only thing that matters, or growth hacking. The reason is because most startups need to keep their payback period to less than one year. Here they use mostly Content Marketing and Inside Sales.

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Why Most Companies Fail At Moving Up or Down Market

Brian Balfour

The difference between these two are not the common mantras of build a great product, product market fit is the only thing that matters, or growth hacking. When you strip away all the outer layers, they all have essentially the same core product — a tool that lets you send and automate emails to your customers and audience.

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Spendesk’s Nicolas Marchais on evolving with your market

Intercom, Inc.

If people aren’t looking for your solution, you have to educate them about the problem your product solves. Spendesk thinks about building its company in three stages: startup, growth, and scale. We are now between the growth and the scale, based on the different markets. That’s quite a large market.

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How to build a billion dollar sales team like Stripe

Intercom, Inc.

But as it started selling more and more into the enterprise, it staffed up with a deep and strong one. But when it came to selling Dropbox Enterprise, it added several. It’s become apparent that for hypergrowth SaaS startups today, there are two distinct phases. How to bring formal sales into a growing startup.