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367: Radical product thinking for product managers – with Radhika Dutt

Product Innovation Educators

She has built products in industries including broadcasting, media, advertising, technology, government, consumer, robotics, and wine. Regardless of which industry I was in, I kept seeing the same patterns of diseases. Other diseases are pivot-itis and obsessive sales disorder. Why does that world need changing?

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How to build a billion dollar sales team like Stripe

Intercom, Inc.

The fastest growing software companies in recent years all have something in common – they started with little to no sales team. But even for companies with this early viral growth, there comes a point in time when this organic growth needs to be supplemented with formal sales. Yes, Slack started off with no sales team.

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The Great Silence

The Product Coalition

I ran a survey with industry insiders and at least 50% of all product managers who responded haven’t spoken to a customer recently. I’ve asked friends who do the job at social events and got the same answer, and frequently asked members of my own teams, who struggled to find the time to do it. most invariably say zero.

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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. In this post, I outline how SaaS founders should modify their approach and implement a simple sales methodology to increase their odds of success. Industry sector.

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Mismatched Expectations: Product Information and Sales Teams

Mironov Consulting

” Product: “We’re endlessly creating and updating demos, decks, product bulletins, release dates/roadmaps, FAQs, technical docs, checklists, cheat sheets -- but Sales hardly uses any of them, and still expresses deep frustration with us.  Sales  There’s something more systematic here.

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Emergence Capital’s Doug Landis on telling stories that sell

Intercom, Inc.

Previously, however, he ran sales productivity for teams at Google, Salesforce and Box. His time at the latter culminated in the title of Chief Storyteller, where he rewrote the script for how Box sales team talked to and about their customers. Today, Doug is a Growth Partner at Emergence Capital. It was so fun.

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Emergence Capital’s Doug Landis on telling stories that sell

Intercom, Inc.

Previously, however, he ran sales productivity for teams at Google, Salesforce and Box. His time a the latter culminated in the title of Chief Storyteller, where he rewrote the script for how Box sales team talked to and about their customers. Today, Doug is a Growth Partner at Emergence Capital. It was so fun.