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The GitLab way: Kindness, transparency, and short toes | David DeSanto (CPO)

Lenny Rachitsky

Brought to you by: • Orb —The flexible billing engine for modern pricing • Eppo —Run reliable, impactful experiments • Paragon —Ship every SaaS integration your customers want — David DeSanto is the chief product officer of GitLab, which is the largest remote-only company in the world.

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5 strategies to drive your next wave of growth

Intercom, Inc.

Over the years, I’ve learned a lot through both successes and failures, and these are my top 5 strategies in scaling SaaS businesses from $1M to $500M in revenue: Expand your market. Figure out how your product can solve the problem you originally solved, but for a broader set of customers. Find product market fit again and again.

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Role of a Product Manager: Unraveling the Key Responsibilities & Role in Business Success

Sequent Learning

They delve deep into market research, analyzing customer needs and market trends, translating these insights into product features and enhancements. Market Analysis : Conducting extensive market research, they gather insights into consumer needs, market trends, and competitor landscapes.

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F Customer Feedback

The Product Coalition

Brilliant meeting so many new people and catching up with so many Receptive customers too. It was called: F Customer Feedback Video will be available soon too. F Customer Feedback Hello, I’m Hannah Chaplin the CEO at Receptive. However, customer feedback is actually a huge opportunity for your business.

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431: How to use Jobs-to-be-Done rankings – with Doug Stone

Product Innovation Educators

It is a customer discovery tool for uncovering the unmet needs of customers—the tasks they want to complete or objectives they want to achieve. When using this approach, we may find the customer has multiple Jobs-to-be-Done and each job has a variety of attributes. ” For certain jobs, consumers said no.

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CX expert Annette Franz on putting the ‘customer’ in ‘customer experience’

Intercom, Inc.

Most businesses design customer experiences from the inside out, based on what is best for the company, when they should be doing the exact opposite. Few people are as passionate about customer experience as Annette, the founder and CEO of consulting firm CX Journey Inc. How to put the “customer” in “customer experience”.

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429: Innovation practices of the best companies – with Sally Kay

Product Innovation Educators

Sally spent 36 years with The Dow Chemical Company and GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare. The award started in 1988, and in 2004 the OCI committee was asked to write a chapter for the PDMA Handbook of New Product Development about the OCI award. Innovation strategy is critical. They call it their innovation recipe.