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Building Resolution Bot: How to apply machine learning in product development

Intercom, Inc.

ML products also require us to manage relatively large technology risks – this is an area where, unlike in most other product development, technical limitations might render the entire design impossible. Resolution Bot is a product that automatically answers the repetitive questions faced by customer support teams.

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CEOs of Zapier, Walkme and Dialpad: How to Build Your First Management Team (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

In 2017, Zapier, Walkme and Dialpad were all beginning to break out. So let’s take a look back to a deep dive with the CEOs on what they learned building their first senior teams: ———-. As a founder/CEO, building your first management team is something that you often lose sleep over. And for good reason.

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The Future of AI in Sales with Gong’s CEO and Co-Founder Amit Bendov

SaaStr

Every week, there are significant new developments in tech. If you go to a team and say, “I can do 70% of what your team is doing now automatically and at a fraction of the cost.” Gong was designed for prediction, engagement, and enablement in early 2017, and it took a few years to get there. It’s not a bad thing.

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Intercomrade Spotlight: Marianne Quiray

Intercom, Inc.

Marianne joined us in 2017 as a Sales Development Representative. I never knew I was poor. I never knew the struggle until I was older and realized, ‘Oh woah, we were poor.’ In 2019, my parents got in a really bad car accident and completely totaled their car. It’s always, always who you are with. Take a look.

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The 3 Secret Ingredients for Scaling to $100M ARR with Bitly CEO and CPO

SaaStr

The three core areas to focus on are: Evolving your growth engine Building and solving for when to become a multi-product platform Investing in your people and team #1: Evolving Your Growth Engine Let’s start with some context for Bitly’s journey. You might have to rebuild your marketing team. Optimize your acquisition funnel.

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The three strands of brand authenticity

Intercom, Inc.

More recently, however, I’ve realized that the technology industry at large struggles with such clarity and consistency – in marketing terms, there is often a difficulty developing a clear value proposition that aligns with product and brand identity. 1 Poor definition of value proposition and feature focus. 2 First-mover disadvantage.

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Best application vulnerability assessment tools for software companies (paid & free)

Audacix

A vulnerability assessment tools or virtual app scanning for your software team has become as important as your git repository or your ticket management system. You might end up building a whole team in-house to support the open source tool of your choice, which, one would think, defeats the purpose of going open source in the first place?