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Who is Marty Cagan: Background, Books, Product Management Tips, and More

User Pilot

In many ways, he has shaped how successful products are built and how teams can be organized to work toward excellence. In this role, he drove the development of products that took eBay’s global e-commerce platform to new levels of success. Marty Cagan is a popular name in the product management world. Who is Marty Cagan?

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Veeva: The Biggest Vertical SaaS Success Story of All Time (Video + Transcript)

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If you don’t have tickets, lock in Early Bird pricing today and bring your team! When you get that thing where you’re a rational person and you think it will be great and 99 out of 100 people think it’s bad, that’s when you have opportunity. Peter : 2002, I guess or so. Jason : The world ended in 2002 too.

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The Top 5 Questions Every CEO Wrestles With – Lessons From Host Analytics (Video + Transcript)

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And if you work for a CEO, whether you’re on the e-staff or really any position in a startup, I’m hoping that by understand how the CEO thinks and how the CEO looks at certain issues that you’ll be better able to add value and it will help your career. Startups are like sharks. Do I have the right team?

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Fmr. CEO of Host Analytics and CEO of Namely — Jun 14, 2019

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Finally pre-Salesforce, Dave was CEO @ MarkLogic where he grew the team from 40 to 240 and revenues from $0 to an $80m revenue run rate. Does Dave agree that if the money is on the table founding teams should take it? What are the clear differences between a good book and a bad book? Who is involved? How long does it take?

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101 Content Marketing for Start-Ups

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Photo by rawpixel on Unsplash Nowadays everyone has a great idea they are developing. Wether they are Harvard graduates or high school drop outs, many startupers leave everything to invest all their time, money, connections, and efforts into their dream project, their baby, their golden ticket for a sweet exit: their start-up project.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Matrix Partners and EZPR — February 21, 2020

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Prior to its July 2002 acquisition by Novell, SilverStream was a public company that had reached a revenue run rate in excess of $100M, with approximately 800 employees and offices in more than 20 countries around the world. How does David think about scaling sales teams? Do you need business development reps?

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The Things Nobody Tells You About An $8B Acquisition with Ryan Smith from Qualtrics (Video + Transcript)

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And the team deck doesn’t say who the CEO is? We called ourselves a team of four, actually, who operate and make decisions, and it’s just how we rolled. We called ourselves a team of four, actually, who operate and make decisions, and it’s just how we rolled. Ryan Smith: No. Jason Lemkin: What does it say?