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Announcing our latest book – The Growth Handbook

Intercom, Inc.

We’ve just launched our latest book, The Growth Handbook. Whether you’re at an early stage startup contemplating life after the TechCrunch bump, or a more mature business with many millions in ARR, your company’s survival depends on finding a sustainable answer. That’s what The Growth Handbook is all about.

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TEI 290: What product managers must know about Customer Development and Lean Startup – with Steve Blank

Product Innovation Educators

In 2012 I read a book titled, Startup Owner’s Manual: The Step-by-Step Guide for Building a Great Company. Later, like many of us, I learned about Lean Startup thinking from Eric Ries and found threads to adjacent thinking that was in the Startup Owner’s Manual. Successful startups ignored that advice.

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470: Strategies for enhanced product innovation in organizations – with Andy Binns

Product Innovation Educators

Our first book was Corporate Explorer: How Corporations Beat Startups at Innovation. This sounds outrageous, but although it is challenging for corporations to innovate and get into a market ahead of a startup, it does happen far more often than we realize. Nobody listened to him, so he left and went to a startup.

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5 strategies to drive your next wave of growth

Intercom, Inc.

Then apply Lean Startup Principles to hiring by putting people in the role. If you are hiring for a role that you aren’t super familiar with, or at a scale you haven’t been at before, learn and benchmark first. H ave them do the job you want them to do for a day.

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The Best of Everything Handpicked for PMs

The Product Cafe

💜 Welcome to this week's edition of Product Café, your weekly cup of coffee for everything product management, startups, AI, and more. Hello, all you product-loving folks! ☕ Thanks for reading Product Café Newsletter ☕️! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.

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2018 on Inside Intercom

Intercom, Inc.

“The journey from startup to scale-up is a fascinating story, and we thoroughly enjoy sharing our perspective, our insights and our experiences” The journey from startup to scale-up is a fascinating story, and we thoroughly enjoy sharing our perspective, our insights and our experiences as we continue on that journey.

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Trapped in Product Death Cycle?

The Product Cafe

💜 Welcome to this week's edition of Product Café, your weekly cup of coffee for everything product management, startups, AI, and more. No matter what stage your company is in, it is important that you do MVP testing. Prioritize and test hypotheses to improve key metrics. Hello, all you product-loving folks!