B2B Product Management

DECEMBER 6, 2016

As you can see in the picture, these categories are inbound and outbound Product Management. This division between inbound and outbound PM duties is much more pronounced at larger companies. At a smaller company or a startup, usually one person plays both roles. This is not contradictory but rather complimentary.

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Revulytics

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

In defense of decreased multi-tasking, the author says “many businesses are beginning to organize customer engagement, strategy, and product development responsibilities among different people within product teams.” But can you be just a technical product manager or just a strategic one?

Data Visualization 66

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Developing a sales strategy is one of the core activities every business will have to undertake. A well defined sales strategy is your path to meaningful, sustainable growth. When done correctly, your sales strategy will help your sales team execute with focus – SMB or enterprise, inbound or outbound, hunting or farming.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Spendesk thinks about building its company in three stages: startup, growth, and scale. At Spendesk I am currently head of sales, so my main missions are about hiring and building the sales department on one side, and I also work around like all of the go-to-market strategy. That’s quite a large market.

Feedback Software 162

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Brian Balfour

JULY 18, 2017

The reason is because most startups need to keep their payback period to less than one year. They have higher ARPUs and can therefore take advantage of high CAC channels such as content marketing, inbound/inside sales, or channel partnerships. If it is much longer than one year then you will need a lot more cash to fund growth.

User Testing 65

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Brian Balfour

AUGUST 3, 2017

Because of that, they use Outbound Sales to sell (Product Channel Fit). Because they use Outbound Sales they must have High ACV's to support the channel (Channel Model Fit). Since the product still requires a fair amount of setup and education to work they use Inbound Sales (Content) and Channel Partnerships (Product Channel Fit).

Marketing 57

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ProductBoard

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

As a PM from a renowned Valley startup quipped: “Today’s feature voting forums might as well be called ‘disappointment forums’.” With the Portal, productboard overcomes limitations of all previous roadmapping and feature voting solutions. productboard Portal engages your product community in a whole new way.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 4, 2019

It’s become apparent that for hypergrowth SaaS startups today, there are two distinct phases. Stripe hit the market with such force that they could rely on a high-velocity, bottom-up distribution engine to give them the kind of traction other startups could only dream of. How to bring formal sales into a growing startup.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 16, 2019

This is not to say that bottom-up adoption is bad strategy; quite the opposite. If you can raise a ton of capital, it’s one strategy for winning and crushing the competition. Excerpt from “ What is the optimal structure of a startup SaaS B2B sales team? ”. Is your model primarily inbound or outbound?

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 29, 2021

We recently sat down with Mark to chat about onboarding in a hypergrowth environment, how that strategy played as the pandemic unfolded, and why taking care of your team is actually the best way to take great care of your customers. We have business development doing inbound and outbound. Iterate, iterate, iterate.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 23, 2023

Value chain analysis matters most to startups who don’t have much initial data to work with. For instance, the value chain of Amazon’s inbound and outbound logistics would look very different from the value chain of Prime Video. Customer pain points. Decision-making.

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280 Group

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Question: Can you share some strategies for lateral transitions (when interviewing)…e.g. It is often said that a Product Manager has a more inbound focus, while a Product Marketing Manager has a more outbound focus. Prior to Amazon, Ken drove product strategy at a number of Seattle area startups.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

This is Season Two of Scale , Intercom’s podcast series on moving from startup to scale-up. A genius inbound marketing strategy. Companies like Slack, HubSpot, and Shopify have all operated on this deeper level, leveraging these five strategies to go public. And really there are five most common market-moving strategies.

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Userpilot

APRIL 7, 2024

Conversion reports show the effectiveness of marketing strategies, and screen reports indicate the landing pages that users interact with the most. For startups founded less than five years ago, Mixpanel offers the first year of their Growth plan for free. Engagement reports. Cohort and user exploration. Website ranking.

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Business of Software Conference

MAY 21, 2020

The best candidates they have their pick of where to work and it’s really hard for small startup to compete. So, against this calibre of competition how does a small startup managed to remain competitive? High-level Strategy. There’s inbound hiring and there’s outbound hiring.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

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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NextBigWhat

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Kernel of a Strategy: A process to create a strategy. Operating Plan (OP1) is an annual planning document that covers the strategy for the next 12 months, ways of executing the strategy, and the budget required. For a startup to move very fast, it must take on far more risk than a company going through the normal.

User Testing 52

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

You’ll hear from: Dialpad’s Chief Strategy Officer, Dan O’Connell, and Sherlock’s CEO, Derek Skaletsky, on speeding up and slowing down deals to deliver value to your buyers and your business. That’s why it’s crucial to have an automation strategy to eliminate low-value work. Halid, how about yourself?

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