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From frontline manager to SVP of Sales: How to stand out in your sales career

Intercom, Inc.

Sales managers looking to stand out among their peers would do well to focus on four things: prioritizing work that will move the needle, making sure the right people are on their team, thinking about initiatives that will improve the business (not just themselves and their reps), and developing a solid decision-making framework.

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BrowserStack’s Mark Rudden on hypergrowth in a global pandemic

Intercom, Inc.

And so, Mark Rudden and his team had to figure it all out by themselves. Fortunately, Mark had quite a bit of experience working and scaling teams in demanding, hypergrowth environments. It turns out that hypergrowth is less about hiring people and more about creating onboarding and training processes and opportunities.

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Using Tailscale to Access Amazon VPCs, EC2 Instances, and RDS Clusters

Crafty CTO

Inception: Direct Database Access for the Data Team Our immediate need was getting the data science team programatic access to a read replica of our production database, an Amazon RDS Postgres cluster. Our data team could’ve handled it, but the CLI interface would be an ongoing source friction and pain. do you mean, sir?”

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9 essential sales steps you need to grow your SaaS startup

Intercom, Inc.

Despite that value, however, there’s a drawback – a lack of formal sales training and sales process can seriously undermine those initial efforts. It is important that these friendly connections represent the target persona market you have outlined, as otherwise, the feedback loop is likely to be weak.

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Product Managers: Your job title doesn’t mean anything!

The Product Coalition

Whereas, in another company, the role is expanded to be the expert collaborator that binds the whole product team together. For example; in a smaller company, a Java Developer will have pretty much the same core activities as they do in a larger company. Or you may be heavily involved in either inbound or outbound activity.

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How do market researchers add experimentation to drive better business outcomes?

DISQO

Plus, either way, you need to be good at quickly recognizing and correcting bad decisions. Product teams responsible for introducing new solutions to the market are embracing agile workflows and need to engage in higher-velocity decision-making to inform recurring code sprints. Achieve better business outcomes.

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Experimentation and Prototyping: A Guide for Product Leaders

DISQO

It requires teams to gain insights directly from consumers through experimentation and prototyping, align to the actual wants and needs of the market, and accelerate time-to-market. Plus, either way, you need to be good at quickly recognizing and correcting bad decisions. No one wants to be the next Blockbuster.