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James Davies

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208 total appearances

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Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 E7: James Davies, Kinetic Data

Just so I could see the inner workings of what was working, what wasn't, and what needed to be done for a leadership position there.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 E7: James Davies, Kinetic Data

And then after a couple months went by, we had some successes.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 E7: James Davies, Kinetic Data

I was able to bring in someone to run the growth function of our organization.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 E7: James Davies, Kinetic Data

I would say that was MVP number one, is really getting a solid growth organization off the ground after being such an engineering-led company for so long.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 E7: James Davies, Kinetic Data

Another challenge, though, is that our product is quite generic.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 E7: James Davies, Kinetic Data

It's really, you can think of it as almost a framework for building really robust user experiences and workflows, but it's more of a toolkit.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 E7: James Davies, Kinetic Data

And so for the technical people in the audience, that's actually a neat thing.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 E7: James Davies, Kinetic Data

Like a lot of times you don't want a pre-canned solution.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 E7: James Davies, Kinetic Data

You want to build exactly what you want.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 E7: James Davies, Kinetic Data

But it introduced a time to value problem within our sales cycles and within our customers.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 E7: James Davies, Kinetic Data

And so we decided to do really the MVP that I'm talking about now is a starter effectively on our platform that's got a whole bunch of pre-built stuff that gives our customers a leg up and increases time to value.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 E7: James Davies, Kinetic Data

And so we had our success team and our engineering team put a lot of effort into just making it much easier to onboard a new builder into our platform and give them the tools that they need to explore.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 E7: James Davies, Kinetic Data

And then they could take that and go off on their own.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 E7: James Davies, Kinetic Data

And that's drastically reduced the time to value for our customers.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 E7: James Davies, Kinetic Data

It's helped us with documentation and training as well.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 E7: James Davies, Kinetic Data

Just having a reference implementation that we could refer to and then start customers from.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 E7: James Davies, Kinetic Data

It's an interesting question because we're in the middle of figuring that out right now.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 E7: James Davies, Kinetic Data

So we've got that baseline in place.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 E7: James Davies, Kinetic Data

We're in an interesting market in that we're not your traditional SaaS company where it's $29 a month, you put your credit card in and go.