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    • Stage 1: Baseline Fact Gathering — Building Your Intelligence Foundation
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    • Stage 4: Battlecards & Enablement — Turning Intelligence Into Sales Motion
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    The Ugly Truth of B2B SaaS Customer Acquisition Costs

    Acquiring customers is the biggest challenge any B2B software company has. Unless…

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    25 Product Management Memes for 2021

    I belong to a Facebook Group called Product Management Memes. It has…

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    Why Product Managers Should Care About Enterprise Value

    Understanding Enterprise Value can help product managers in many ways. It can…

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    Agile is Dead (So is COBOL, XP, RAD, UML, SAFe, etc)

    To commemorate the 20th anniversary of the publication of the Manifesto for…

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    Did You Know That SEMrush Was a $160 Million Public Company?

    I was surprised that SEMrush, the SEO optimization platform, had gone public…

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    Software Equity Group Q2 2021 M&A Update

    The Software Equity Group continues to publish excellent research on software-related M&A…

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    Why Pareto Analysis is Important for Product Managers

    Pareto Analysis is a technique product managers can use to make better…

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    Why Product Managers Should Care About Cash Flow Statements

    ash Flow Statements are probably the hardest type of financial statement for…

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    Enterprise SaaS Demand Generation in 2021. How Not To Piss Off Prospects

    Demand generation for enterprise SaaS firms is tough. A seasoned CIO offers…

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    Why Should Product Managers Care About Balance Sheets?

    Balance sheets are an esoteric topic for product managers. Product managers do…

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