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

Product Innovation Educators

My path to product leadership has been through entrepreneurship and product diseases. Logistics: How does the solution get to customers (support, sales, training customers, professional services)? If you’re a startup, survival depends on revenue and funding. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers.

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How to build a billion dollar sales team like Stripe

Intercom, Inc.

Yes, Dropbox started off with no traditional sales team. It’s become apparent that for hypergrowth SaaS startups today, there are two distinct phases. The second stage is treating growth as top of funnel marketing and layering on sales to open up profitable yet harder to reach segments. What’s not to like?

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The Great Silence

The Product Coalition

One particular example, UpBank, I’d argue one of the most underrated and successful software companies in Australia, only has Product Designers with one single product leadership role. Some startups adopt this strategy to fool investors. Under these conditions, it is logical to focus on new sales because?—?well,

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Pragmatic Live Transcripts (Prioritizing Your Product Launch)

Pragmatic Marketing

So I moved into that in Google when this startup had acquired and then four years ago, I joined HubSpot, to really, really focus on that. I've seen some startups and some companies do a launch every week, for instance. And it was it was product marketing it looked at it smelled like product marketing. Yeah, absolutely.

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Pragmatic Live Transcripts (Prioritizing Your Product Launch)

Pragmatic Marketing

So I moved into that in Google when this startup had acquired and then four years ago, I joined HubSpot, to really, really focus on that. I've seen some startups and some companies do a launch every week, for instance. And it was it was product marketing it looked at it smelled like product marketing. Yeah, absolutely.

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It’s time to get your Ph.D. in Sales Comp

Product Beautiful

This company had recently acquired a series of software startups and was attempting to integrate them into their larger hardware portfolio. What I learned during this time about Sales behavior was a shock to my system – and may help you as well. A few years ago, I was working for a large company here in Austin.

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How to build, manage and scale a sales team – 12 strategies from the experts

Intercom, Inc.

Sales doesn’t need to be a cost center. Excerpt from “ What is the optimal structure of a startup SaaS B2B sales team? ”. Structure your sales organization for maximum efficiency. A pod model for your sales team creates focused tight-knit groups, or “pods” that comprise team members playing different roles.