Birdcast - Podcast for B2B SaaS teams
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Podcast about how different B2B SaaS teams build their products, what challenges and solutions they face on the way to the heart of their customers.
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Dec 13, 2022
Episode 16. How to create cohesion in diverse & inclusive teams
In this episode Jacky and Daniel meet with Loretta Eidam, Head of Product, Design & Engineering Operations, exploring the topic of differences in:
- how to scale both team and product in hyper growth phase of the company
- what does it mean to work in product operations
- how important nowadays are transferable skills
- what is diversity inclusive teams and how to create them
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Dec 5, 2022
Episode 15. US vs. European SaaS market
In this episode Jacky and Daniel meet with Shaun Hicks, Senior Director of Product at Aviv Group, exploring the topic of differences in:
- investment market
- job opportunities & hiring market
- employee training vs. employee turnover
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Nov 28, 2022
Episode 14. Is Agile really dead?
In this episode Jacky and Daniel meet with Shaun Hicks, Senior Director of Product at Aviv Group, exploring the topic of:
- theory vs practical implementation of agile best practices
- best practices of customer-centric framework
- OKR framework efficiency
- remote work as a framework of new reality
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Nov 14, 2022
Episode 13. How to do product team management
In this episode Jacky and Daniel meet with Vineet Luthra, Head of Product at Solaris Bank, exploring the topic of:
- what it takes to grow from product manager to the head of product
- people-oriented product team management
- how to communicate product fundamentals to the different stakeholders
- how to reach work & life balance for yourself and your team
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Nov 11, 2022
Episode 12. What investors expect from early stage start-ups
In this episode Jacky and Daniel meet with Christopher Marken, Angel Investor at angelofsweden.io, exploring the topic of:
- what questions you should be ready to answer when raising money
- importance of product market fit
- what KPIs investors look at
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Nov 7, 2022
Episode 11. How to set goals & KPIs for your SaaS business
In this episode Jacky and Daniel meet with Marek Zámečník, CEO of Vestberry, exploring the topic of:
- the pyramid of priorities and how it is better than setting OKRs
- how to create and use the pyramid of priorities for your business
- what are the other alternative ways to prioritise your goals and set KPIs for your company
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Nov 2, 2022
Episode 10. How to become an Angel Investor without winning a lottery first
In this episode Jacky and Daniel meet with Christopher Marken, Angel Investor at angelofsweden.io, exploring the topic of:
- what is angel investment vs venture capital investment
- how much money you need to become angel investor
- how to choose in what company to invest
- how to build your deal flow as an angel investor
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Oct 7, 2022
Episode 9. How to implement customer success from scratch in your company
In this episode Jacky and Daniel meet with Joran Hofman, CEO of Reditus, exploring the topic of:
- what is the difference between customer success, sales, customer support and community manager
- how to understand that your company needs a customer success team
- how to motivate your customers to keep in touch with your company and develop mutually fruitful relationships
- how to find a great customer success person
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Sep 26, 2022
Episode 8. How to approach leadership & team management in fast-changing environment
In this episode Jacky and Daniel meet with Daniil Pavliuchkov, Head of Product Growth at TIER, exploring the topic of:
- different leadership styles
- the best way to implement the organisational changes
- the role of clarity and transparency as a part of leadership communication
- how to create and implement company strategy
- how to prioritise between short-term and long-term goals
Outside of work Daniil run a Product Leadership course, advise early-stage startups from Greece, speak at various EU conferences, and even produced a product podcast.
Ahead of Product - "Leadership in Product" course, https://aheadofproduct.com/
Daniil's podcast (all platforms) - https://anchor.fm/top-tier"
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Sep 15, 2022
Episode 7. How to sell & grow your SaaS in niche closed market
In this episode Jacky and Daniel meet with Marek Zámečník, CEO of Vestberry (vestberry.com), exploring the topic of:
- how to generate leads without high paid media budgets
- how to communicate your product value
- what is the secret of word of mouth and how to grow it
- how to create community around your product
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Sep 6, 2022
Episode 6. How to understand what your users really want
In this episode Jacky and Daniel meet with Christian Frørup, CTO & CPO of Officeguru - office management platform on a mission to make workplaces work better - exploring the topic of:
- how to build clear two-way communication with your users
- how to prioritise what new features to release
- what is MoSCoW prioritisation method & how to use it in your product development process
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Aug 29, 2022
Episode 5. How to track and attribute your user behaviour
In this episode Jacky and Daniel meet with Jane Portman, CEO of Userlist, email automation software, and podcast host of "UI breakfast" and "Better Late Than Never", exploring the topic of:
- what basic key metrics to look at while evaluating your marketing and software usage
- what is activating data and how to define it for your business
- where is the silver lining between asking too much data during signup process and asking not enough
- how to deal with user privacy rights and stay legally compliant
- what does "company account" mean and why we should pay attention to that
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Aug 8, 2022
Episode 4. How to make your developers happy
In this episode Jacky and Daniel meet with Danila Timerin, Head of Product at Approvalmax, and Amelie Thomas, Product Manager at Approvalmax, exploring the topic of:
- who is development process facilitator
- what tools to use to do internal health checks of development team
- how to optimise approval & release processes
- how to make and keep your developers happy
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Jul 25, 2022
Episode 3. How to do SaaS pricing to get revenue & to make sure your clients could afford it
In this episode Jacky and Daniel meet with Greg Flint, CEO of Four13 dev agency, exploring the topic of:
- challenges of pricing setup in software development industry
- agency as a service and the benefits of a fixed monthly payment for an unlimited amount of support
- SaaS industry shift towards user-based pricing
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Jul 18, 2022
Episode 2. Do software developers actually need to know UX design?
In this episode Jacky and Daniel meet with Greg Flint, CEO of Four13 dev agency, exploring the topic of:
- unicorn SaaS teams, where everyone can do anything,
- how much product managers really need to manage,
- whether software developers need to know UX design and designers need to know coding,
- how much designing is actually enough and
- how to create healthy feedback environment in a company
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Jul 10, 2022
Episode 1. What is the perfect team structure of a software development agency?
In this episode Jacky and Daniel meet with Greg Flint, CEO of Four13 dev agency, exploring the topic of:
- the hierarchy burden
- how to scale software development agency without losses
- what means to be "smart lazy" in software development business
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Apr 11, 2022
Birdcast - Trailer
Welcome, Jacky (CPO) and Daniel (Fullstack Developer) at Bird Eats Bug who along with their guests are going to dive into the world of B2B SaaS product development.
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