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Lightning Strikes: Alianza Introduces Intelligent Communications Fabric

At their inaugural customer conference, Navigate 2025, Alianza didn’t just launch a product they declared a new category. Over 650 telco leaders from more than 20 countries..

Ship Belief to Nail Your IPO

You’re 12–18 months from an IPO. Your banker says: “We can take you public. The market’s ready. The window is open.” But here’s the hard truth: you are underinvested in belief.

The Point Tool Ceiling: The Phenom Story

From Point Tool to Talent Experience Platform When we first met Mahe and Hari Bayireddi, their company was called iMomentous.

Building Belief for Your IPO or Major Financing

At some point, every founder raising a late-stage growth round or preparing for an IPO faces the same hard truth:

What is Category Design in Marketing?

In 2023, there were 15,000 new businesses created every day. That’s 60% more than in 2019. Harvard Business School estimated in 2011 that there were 30,000 new products introduced..

Are you different or just better?

Why That Campaign You Love Is Ruining Your Business... “Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives are mimicry, their passions a..

Docusign IAM Intelligent Agreement Management

In 2014 we identified Docusign as the Category King of e-Signature. Docusign grew exponentially during COVID. Their market cap hit almost $60 billion in late 2021, a 10X increase..

Good Ideas are Killing Start-ups.

Why? Because most start-ups aren’t solving new problems, they’re just offering a better, cheaper, faster way of solving the same problem as their competition...

This is a Category Design Nursery

Something incredible actually: Category Champions are born. Almost half of the category dominating companies we’ve been tracking at Play Bigger for the last 20+ years, were..