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Hi! I am
Tae Hea Nahm
Founding CEO
Co-Founder
12 Storm Unicorns
Everyone wants to
be a high growth
company
Customers want to back the winner
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Everyone wants to
be a high growth
company
HOW TO BECOME A HIGH GROWTH
Customers want to back the winner
COMPANY?
Investors chasing high growth SURF
Scale Growth
Great employees want to join
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SURF
Scale Growth
1 PADDLE
Founder Growth
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Common answer is
“Just Scale Growth”
Scale Growth
Just hire more sales reps
3 SURF
Scale Growth
CATCH
2 THE WAVE
Unlock Growth
1 PADDLE
Founder Growth
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3 SURF
Scale Growth
CATCH
2 THE WAVE
Unlock Growth
HERO
CUSTOMER
JOURNEY
II CJ PLAYBOOK
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CHAMPION’S
CUSTOMER CHAMPION HERO CUSTOMER
EMPATHY
(which customer JOURNEY
persona to focus on) (9 step journey defines
customer empathy)
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Customer empathy:
customer centric GTM
Frustrated founder
customers just don’t
get it
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Customer empathy:
customer centric GTM
Normally,
customers should not
buy from startups
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Customer empathy:
customer centric GTM CAN BECOME HAVE AN
PLG, SLG, MLG, Inbound
A HERO URGENT PAIN
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LAZY
“Early customer thinks decision. “In vendor selection, there is
like a cofounder.” more downside
risk than upside.”
Ashwin Ballal, CIO Medallia.
LOOK GOOD
JJ Juergensen, MD of
S2T podcast.
CyberRisk at Barclays.
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How Use?
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(Longitude)
support tool,
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st
1 contract: when your
champion gets anxious
The company celebrates the win!!!
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The power of
Hero Stories
Hero stories drive thought leadership and community
Not just customer case studies. “Not about “Marketo successfully built a massive “Community is a tribe of customers,
showcasing success with your product. community with educational marketing that prospects, partners and influencers. Every
Instead, these stories should showcase your drove the company’s growth. At Marketo, member benefits from the community’s
champions’ success as crusaders of change the first line of blog was written before the collective knowledge and transformative
in their companies. Make your champion first line of code. The seed of “teaching” to crusader stories. The next member is
(not your offering) the central hero of the create a tribe was planted early and smarter than the previous.”
story.” Chandar Pattabhiram, CMO Coupa germinated the larger concept of the
& Marketo Marketing Nation, which became a
community of thousands of passionate
marketers.”
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Active Committee
Aware st
1 Engage 1st Contract Onboard
Engage Approval
Impact:
● Builds customer empathy by understanding your
champion’s challenges, fears, sentiments and goals
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II
RIGHT SURFBOARD
CUSTOMER
JOURNEY
PLAYBOOK
III TUNING YOUR CJ PLAYBOOK
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What is the
Customer Journey Playbook
Want How
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GTM EXECUTION REPEATABILITY PLAYBOOK
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What is the
Customer Journey Playbook
Customer Journey Playbook combines your Hero
Customer Journey with your GTM playbook
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What customers want? What the team does? ● Urgent Pain disappears due to
outlines the customers’ journey Documents your internal GTM changing market (eg Zoom/Covid)
with you: “outside-in” view processes (in the CRM): “inside-out” ● Date Wow no longer effective due to
Advance champion in their journey view. Repeatable actions competition (eg Zoom/Google)
● Resembles surfboard with no fins
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How to build a
Customer Journey
Playbook?
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(social
(Gets boss’s or affirmation)
(Converts prospect committee’s fast time to
Ideal (remember
to Champion) fast approval) why 1V
Customer Profile (Gets meeting immediately) anxiety!)
relief of UP; show strategic; safe choice
fast time to 1v
Enterprises Execs or
Date Wow#1: employees
Champion UP#1: Execs replace BB with
Secure native email help champion get use secure
iPhone UP#2: Pressure to do anxious native email
Date Wow#2: approval
Mobile IT Manager Bring Your Own Device on their
Selective wipe
iPhone
Boss & Committee
Marry Wow#1:
Enterprise App Store
Marry Wow#2:
Ideal Use Case
full BYOD tool kit
prepared by CS
secure work email on iPhone
Hero Customer
Journey
Active
CRM Stages Aware 1st Engage Eval Oral Win 1st Contract Onboard
Engage
Hero Customer
Journey
Active
CRM Stages Aware 1st Engage Eval Oral Win 1st Contract Onboard
Engage
GTM Strategy #1: Sales Led Growth GTM Strategy #2: Product Led Growth
1. Urgent Pain (aware/interest) 1. Urgent Pain (aware/interest)
2. Date Wow (1st Meeting) 2. (sign up)
3. Marry Wow (Engagement/Meet others) 3. (trial/eval)
4. (trial/eval) 4. 1st Value (achieve 1st value)
5. (decide/verbal ok) 5. 1st Contract (sign contract)
6. 1st Contract (sign contract)
7. 1st Value (achieve 1st value)
II Sample Sales Led GTM Land Playbook: MobileIron
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Aware 1st Engage Active Engage Eval Oral Win 1st Contract Onboard
UP#1: Execs
replace BB with Execs or
iPhone UP#2: employees use
Date Wow#1: Secure native email Date Wow#2: Selective
help champion get approval anxious secure native
Champion Pressure to do wipe
email on their
Bring Your Own iPhone
Device
Aware 1st Engage Active Engage Eval Oral Win 1st Contract Onboard
UP#1: Execs
replace BB with Execs or
iPhone UP#2: employees use
Date Wow#1: Secure native email Date Wow#2: Selective
help champion get approval anxious secure native
Champion Pressure to do wipe
email on their
Bring Your Own iPhone
Device
Channel referral
(AT&T and Smooth
Apple) / handoff from
Known executive reference SE to CS (cust
Advancement Plays Leverage Hero
Demo Date Wow / Customer reference on Date Wow expectations)
Stories / SDR to confirm safe choice
script/SEO/M re
UP & wow
Aware 1st Engage Active Engage Eval Oral Win 1st Contract Onboard
UP#1: Execs
replace BB with Execs or
iPhone UP#2: employees use
Date Wow#1: Secure native email Date Wow#2: Selective
help champion get approval anxious secure native
Champion Pressure to do wipe
email on their
Bring Your Own iPhone
Device
Channel referral
(AT&T and Smooth
Apple) / handoff from
Known executive reference SE to CS (cust
Advancement Plays Leverage Hero
Demo Date Wow / Customer reference on Date Wow expectations)
Stories / SDR to confirm safe choice
script/SEO/M re
UP & wow
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What customers want? What the team does? ● Creates customer centric culture by
it works Repeatable actions aligning the entire company behind
helping customers advance along their
journey and become heroes
● Provides a way to fix GTM problems with a
cross-functional approach – next section
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TUNING YOUR
CJ PLAYBOOK
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Want How
+
GTM EXECUTION REPEATABILITY PLAYBOOK
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Committee
Aware 1st Engage Active Engage 1st Contract Onboard
Approval
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Aware 1st Engage Active Engage 1st Contract Onboard
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Customer
Marketing Success
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Aware 1st Engage Active Engage 1st Contract Onboard
Approval
Committee
Aware 1st Engage Active Engage 1st Contract Onboard
Approval
Committee
Aware 1st Engage Active Engage 1st Contract Onboard
Approval
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Aware 1st Engage Active Engage 1st Contract Onboard
Approval
● Led by sales
● Solve underlying problems in the Hero Customer Journey:
○ Date wow by product
○ Urgent Pain (leads) by marketing
○ Time to 1st value and Hero Stories by product and
customer success
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Aware 1st Engage Active Engage 1st Contract Onboard
Approval
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Tuning your CJ
Playbook:
Tune your
Surfboard
CJ Playbook GUIDES the
cross-functional team on how
to fix the GTM problem
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Scale Growth
CATCH
1 PADDLE
2 THE WAVE
Founder Growth
● Defines Customer empathy ● Makes Hero Customer Journey ● CJ Playbook guides cross functional
● Is easily Measurable executable team on how to fix GTM problems
● Creates common framework & ● Creates customer centric culture ● Breaks silos by aligning entire
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and GTM making champion heroes heroes
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Another
SUMMARY …
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GO-TO-MARKET
Unlock growth
>$2.5m/Q
PRODUCT MARKET
Happy Customers
$1m ARR and 10-20 customers Most startups find PMF, but
struggle to unlock growth
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GO-TO-MARKET
Unlock growth
Why buy now? Why you?
Understand the Urgent pain with its map Why OK? Why strategic?
1 Date &
1st Value Hero stories
Hero Customer Journey coordinates: ICP and IUC Marry Wow
PRODUCT MARKET
with an Urgent Pain Happy Customers
$1m ARR and 10-20 customers Most startups find PMF, but
struggle to unlock growth
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GO-TO-MARKET
Unlock growth
Why buy now? Why you?
Understand the Urgent pain with its map Why OK? Why strategic?
1 Date &
1st Value Hero stories
Hero Customer Journey coordinates: ICP and IUC Marry Wow
PRODUCT MARKET
with an Urgent Pain Happy Customers
$1m ARR and 10-20 customers Most startups find PMF, but
struggle to unlock growth
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GO-TO-MARKET
Unlock growth
Why buy now? Why you?
Understand the Urgent pain with its map Why OK? Why strategic?
1 Date &
1st Value Hero stories
Hero Customer Journey coordinates: ICP and IUC Marry Wow
PRODUCT MARKET
with an Urgent Pain Happy Customers
$1m ARR and 10-20 customers Most startups find PMF, but
struggle to unlock growth
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Thank you!
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