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Actionable
Takeaways

Identify and Address Market Gaps:

Look for areas where existing solutions are outdated, ineffective, or fail to meet customer needs. Use your own experiences and frustrations as inspiration for creating a better product or service.

Leverage Product-Led Growth for Enterprise Sales:

Encourage individual signups and team adoption of your product to build momentum and credibility when approaching enterprise deals. Use data on existing usage and spend to demonstrate value and streamline conversations.

Differentiate Through Focus and Agility:

Stand out in a crowded market by focusing on a specific niche or customer segment, and by leveraging your agility to quickly adapt to emerging trends and technologies.

Tie Your Solution to Business Outcomes:

When selling to enterprises, emphasize how your product or service contributes to key business KPIs and delivers measurable ROI. Work with customers to track and demonstrate the impact of your solution.

Stay Ahead of Technological Shifts:

Keep a close eye on major technological advancements, like the rise of AI, and position your business to help customers navigate and leverage these shifts effectively. Continuously adapt your offerings to meet evolving needs and skill requirements.

Conversation
Highlights

 

In today’s episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with Nicholas Rudder, Co-founder and CEO of Sphere, a corporate education platform that’s raised $5 Million in funding, about why a better approach to career-advancement might be just around the corner, and what it is about Sphere’s comprehensive training and review services that make them ideally suited to provide it. By charting a participant’s progress through the interactive training sessions and into the post-education workplace to monitor critical ROI, Sphere is putting power back into the hands of people to take control of their learning experience.

We also speak about Nicholas’ move to San Francisco from his home country of Australia, what it meant to find himself in the tech startup Mecca, why the corporate education space has been so stagnant for so long, and why Sphere’s unique offering helps provide skills and guidance long after the classes come to an end.

Topics Discussed:

  • The current state of the Australian startup economy, and why Nicholas sees great potential in its future
  • Why Nicholas felt his formal business education was missing something critical, and how this led him to the idea for Sphere
  • Why the upskilling economy is in need of innovation, and why Sphere is the right player to provide it
  • Sphere’s unique system to chart education ROI from beginning to end, giving people more power over the skills which might shape their future
  • Why interactive education sessions are the ideal environment for most learners, and how Sphere makes it happen
  • The PLG strategy which Sphere has used to gain a foothold in the market, and why a good customer experience can be its own dividend