Workplace culture, I have learned, is hugely important. We didn’t pay enough attention to it in the first company I started, and we paid the price. So when we created Knak, I knew right away…
I’m both thrilled and humbled to announce that Knak is partnering with Insight Partners, a well-known and well-regarded venture capital firm based in New York City. Insight is providing Series A funding that will fuel…
Every startup wonders when they should start raising capital. Maybe it’s because they’ve been growing a lot, or because they haven’t been growing enough, or because the founder has started getting calls from venture capitalists….
How customer reviews are changing software purchasing Sites like Yelp and Tripadvisor have been around for a long time, and customer reviews of consumer-oriented businesses are so common that people expect them. Who books a…
One day in mid-June, an unnamed intern at HBO Max made the kind of mistake every marketer dreads: The person unwittingly sent out a test email to a portion of the HBO Max mailing list….
Even before the pandemic, Knak was not a nine-to-five, Monday-to-Friday kind of company. Everyone worked from home, with occasional gatherings in someone’s basement or a coffee shop. We didn’t open an office until last year,…
Knak made its reputation by providing a platform for creating beautiful, on-brand marketing emails in minutes, no coding required. We recently launched a new product, called Knak Pages, that extends that ‘on-brand, no coding’ ethos…
Bitcoin has been in the news recently because its value has surged, and also because a few unfortunate people have found themselves financially frustrated because lost passwords have locked them out of their bitcoin wallets….
I recently began hosting a regular podcast entitled Unsubscribed! in which I interview business leaders about any number of topics – usually, but not always, centred around marketing, tech and career advice. (Unsubscribed! is available…
Slack is a popular and successful business communication tool, with upwards of 10 million active daily users. So the recent announcement that it is being bought by Salesforce, the customer relationship management (CRM) giant, is…