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Coronavirus Business Impact: A Startup Disaster or a Big Opportunity to Innovate

The Product Coalition

Enterprises are actively thinking about how to find alternative suppliers. However, as we could see it during the global economic crisis in 2008–2009, the numbers of angel investors may not go down but remain the same or even increase. What will decrease indeed is the size of investments.

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Salesforce’s Mike Kreaden on how to build a platform to drive growth

Intercom, Inc.

It’s now so inexpensive to go to market that having a great tech vision and product isn’t enough. And I remember Marc [Benioff] interviewing me, like he did every employee, and painting the vision for what the platform would be. Can you take us back to the early days of Accelerate and what the original vision was?

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Beyond the hype: Practical advice on building a platform

Intercom, Inc.

From there we actually built some enterprise capabilities that customers wanted around governance and compliance. “Make sure you have the discipline of being an API-first company” The first thing we did to become a platform company was back in 2008, when we said, let’s open up our APIs to third-parties to integrate with us.

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Are you cut out for Product Management?

BrainMates

Great Product Managers deliver products for a market segment, not for an individual or for one enterprise customer. But first, Product Managers need to demonstrate to founders or executives that progress is happening, so that founders can trust that their vision is being nurtured. A Product vision is key to delivering great products.

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Holly Hester-Reilly on Product Science and Experimentation

Amplitude

They have ideas, theories, visions, but they question everything and are always open to changing their minds upon seeing new evidence. ”I It’s much more common in enterprises, where they have the runway and resources to pursue “the perfect decision.” Why science? Holly: I think the best product managers are like scientists.

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Norman Crowley on uncovering the business opportunities in tackling climate change

Intercom, Inc.

In this episode of Inside Intercom we hear from Norman about his own motivations, why he believe privates enterprise can play an integral role in positive change, and how his company Carbon Crowley (part of the Cool Planet Group) harnesses data to empower major corporations in making huge energy and cost savings. Not the retiring type.

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Don’t Miss These Speakers at #mtpcon San Francisco

Mind the Product

Prior to Benchmark, Sarah was a Partner at Greylock Partners, and a Product Lead for search, recommendations, machine vision, and pin quality at Pinterest. At Benchmark, Sarah invests in consumer businesses and the consumerization of IT. Cindy is the author of Lean Customer Development: How to Build Products Your Customers Will Buy.