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Don’t forget the service in SaaS: how your sales team can provide world-class service

Intercom, Inc.

Too many startups focus on the first S in SaaS, but they forget all about the second one. When I moved to Silicon Valley in 2007, self-serve software was all the rage. Ten years later, there’s still a sense that startups can simply develop a product, lean back, and let the software do all the work. That’s why Close.io

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The decade software ate the world

Intercom, Inc.

And that changes a lot: how we think about marketing, how we think about what our product is and how we think about what customer success actually is…This shift moves us from brand promiscuity to brand loyalty.”. From movies and TV to music, we now live in a cloud-enabled, subscription-based streaming wonderland.

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Top 10 Japanese Startups

freshtrax

This makes it a hot spot for startups in Japan because of how much potential there is to grow there. These investments stimulate entrepreneurship in Japan causing the Japanese startup scene to be hotter than ever before. Curious to know which innovative startups are successful in Japan? Related article? Market Capitalization.

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How to break into Silicon Valley

Andrew Chen

This is advice I’ve been giving to people for years, and it’s shaped by my own experience — after all, I moved to the Bay Area in 2007 and it completely changed my life. In 2007 this was cutting edge at a time when product success was often measured by vanity metrics such as the total registrations for a product.

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The Best Custom Software Development Companies in Poland

The Product Coalition

Since its establishment in 2013, it has been providing best-in-class website development, web app development, and mobile app development services for startups, small businesses, and enterprises worldwide. Since 2004, the company has delivered services for startups and already world-famous brands. El Passion Min.

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Ask Alexis and the SMS MVP by Josh Seiden

Mind the Product

Josh refers to a quote by Eric Ries: “The unit of progress for lean startups is validated learning.” A Twitter user used it in 2007 as a way to track conversations when he tweeted at some of his friends. So, during a startup sprint once the client engagement had ended, Neo explored the idea.

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How Yelp drove down churn by building up customer success

Intercom, Inc.

As a brand new company, you might engage in plenty of initiatives that are inherently un-scalable – because there’s no better way to nurture customer love than through a personal relationship. This is Season Two of Scale , Intercom’s podcast series on moving from startup to scale-up.