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Pierce Ujjainwalla has years of experience as a CEO, entrepreneur, and marketing leader. He’s here to share the key learnings and best practices that modern marketers need to succeed. 

His personal blog is full of the insight he’s gained as founder and CEO of Knak as well as from his years of experience in the marketing trenches. Read on for his unique perspective as a true marketing insider.

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How to know you’re ready to raise capital with VCs

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….
Pierce Ujjainwalla
Pierce Ujjainwalla ‐ August 30, 2021
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The software review revolution

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…
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Pierce Ujjainwalla ‐ August 4, 2021
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Five things marketers can learn from the HBO Max email mistake

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….
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Pierce Ujjainwalla ‐ July 13, 2021
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How to make the most of your post-pandemic employee gatherings

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,…
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Pierce Ujjainwalla ‐ July 7, 2021
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Our new product: How we’ve linked up email and landing page creation

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…
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Pierce Ujjainwalla ‐ February 19, 2021
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Why Knak has begun accepting Bitcoin as payment

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….
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Pierce Ujjainwalla ‐ February 1, 2021
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What I learned about starting a podcast – and why it’s been worth it

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…
Pierce Ujjainwalla
Pierce Ujjainwalla ‐ January 18, 2021
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Why you may soon get marketing messages through Slack – and why that’s a concern

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…
Pierce Ujjainwalla
Pierce Ujjainwalla ‐ January 11, 2021
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Why Adobe’s acquisition of Workfront will kill creativity in marketing

The marketing world saw more consolidation by the recent announcement that software giant Adobe had reached an agreement to buy Workfront, a software company that has developed Web-based work management and project management software. Workfront…
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Pierce Ujjainwalla ‐ December 15, 2020
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How Knak’s amazingly disruptive product is letting marketing teams get more out of their agencies

Knak is doing for marketing emails what Uber did for the taxi industry and what Airbnb did for hospitality: We’re disrupting the status quo. Unfortunately, that upsets some people – those with a stake in…
Pierce Ujjainwalla
Pierce Ujjainwalla ‐ November 19, 2020
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