GIST Innovation Talks Episode 5: Product Development
This episode of GIST Innovation Talks explores product development with Jaden Johnston, head of business development at Tugboat, a U.S.-based tech startup that has successfully spun off from its larger parent company. Jaden has extensive experience in taking products to market and building and leading cross-functional B2B teams. VentureWell comms strategist, Genesis Lodise, leads this discussion through the world of product development.
Key topics:
- Creating new opportunities within your startup
- Opening new revenue streams
- Expanding from one business model to multiple
- Incorporating customer feedback
- Roadmapping to scale
- Brand affinity & evangelizing
- Inbound versus outbound strategy
- Finding opportunities in risk
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Host:
Genesis Lodise
Comms Strategist, VentureWell
Genesis brings years of communications and technical expertise to the GIST initiative where he produces digital content for social media and the GISTNetwork.org website.
Guest:
Jaden Johnston
Head of Business Development, Tugboat (a Lullabot company)
Jaden has extensive experience building and leading cross-functional B2B teams to drive program and revenue operations. Her career journey spans SaaS, e-learning, and digital agency sales, and operations, and is based in a passion for operational excellence, mentoring, and coaching.
In addition to heading business development at Tugboat, Jaden also hosts the CX Podcast - focusing on tactics and strategies for revenue generation through incredible customer experiences.
She also likes cats and is also a firm believer in the Oxford comma.
Learn more about how Tugboat can help your organization enhance the development process at tugboat.qa
Connect with Jaden on LinkedIn.