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Lying To Customers

Mironov Consulting

B2B is lumpier than B2C.). On our side, we have expensive/talented/experienced sales teams that either close their few big deals this quarter or are put on notice. While we don’t know everything that’s been said during a 3-or-6-or-9 month sales effort, good sales teams will have briefed us on hot topics. Roadmaps are shared.

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2021 in conversation: Learnings from the podcast

Intercom, Inc.

Throughout the year, we’ve talked to business leaders, experts, and pioneers about all kinds of topics: from creating world-class customer experiences to the challenges of running a business during the pandemic, from being an ally and addressing gaps in diversity to building technical leadership careers.

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14 Can’t Miss Conferences for Product Leaders

ProductPlan

We’ve written about the best conferences for product managers here —today let’s review the can’t miss conferences for product leaders (executives, C-Suite, and the like). The goal is to help product teams “rise above the day-to-day slog and truly think through what makes a successful Product and how to make it happen.”. SaaStr Annual.

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How to Make Agile Work in Fast-Growing Startups

The Product Coalition

All startups built double-sided marketplaces, serving B2C as well as B2B customers. In my experience, the challenges of becoming a learning organization can only be handled effectively by self-organizing teams. Their collaboration will lead over time to a ‘team of teams’ structure. There seems to be a belief?

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449: The secret advice tech companies use to excel in product – with Ben Foster

Product Innovation Educators

I founded Prodify so my team and I can help companies by sharing knowledge from our previous experiences. It’s not because they’re bad at what they do. Often the senior leadership team thinks they talk about strategy a lot, but the employees under them don’t understand the strategy.

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Mismatched Expectations: Product Information and Sales Teams

Mironov Consulting

Lately, I’ve been writing a lot about entirely predictable goal misalignments between the maker side (product, engineering, design) and the go-to-market side (sales, marketing, customer success) of tech firms, especially at B2B/enterprise software companies.  That  There’s something more systematic here.

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Kevin Indig on searching for meaning and the meaning of search

Intercom, Inc.

And I put together these horrible, bad websites – I’m lucky there’s no evidence of them anymore. I’d love to dive into what those strategies were like, especially first at Atlassian, particularly because they had no sales team. Atlassian does not have an outbound sales team.