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Fast Growth Marketing: From 0 to 500,000 Users

markempa

I first met Fowler when he was co-founder of the cloud-based contact management platform Jigsaw which he sold to Salesforce.com for $175 million (now Data.com). After you sold Jigsaw to Salesforce.com why didn’t you decide to ride off into the sunset? . Startups are not easy. Jigsaw was a great acquisition.

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5 Essentials for Creating Effective Partnerships [Video]

Terminus

At ExactTarget, he served as CMO for 6+ years and helped grow revenue from $40M to well over $400M, through IPO, and ultimately acquisition by Salesforce.com. It’s certainly one thing that non-coastal startups can learn from the coastal companies. As a startup, it’s a bit of the “fake it til you make it” mindset.

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Will Marketing Technology Look Like iOS Someday?

Hubspot

There are literally thousands of startup ventures pursuing new ideas in marketing software. Multi-billion dollar giants such as Adobe, IBM, and Oracle are hungrily gobbling up acquisitions behind them, striving to mash disparate products together under a common banner. Well, take a look at Salesforce.com's AppExchange.