Jeff Marusak

Small and medium business (SMB)* IT trends are consistent regardless of what you read or who you talk to.  IT budgets are growing, security is top of mind, and the shift to cloud in full force. For Cisco, these trends couldn’t align better. We have the buyer interest^, product leadership, and a worl…

Has this happened to you? You love tool A and you love tool B. You go to tool A’s marketplace and find out you can install an integration to make it work better with tool B. But there are a few catches. The integration app requires a download or plug-in, requiring you to keep up with current version…

As my colleague Damien McCoy wrote recently, Webex Teams is much more than just a rebranded Cisco Spark app. If you used the product for a while, you’ll be the first to agree. We’re revamping the user experience. Colors are changing. Layouts are different. Tools streamlined. And more features are co…

I recently led a project to develop a hands-on product demonstration for customers.  A group of us across the United States and India worked together to create demos. I started the project by creating a space in Webex Teams. We sent messages, shared a few files, posted some images. A picture was com…

I grew up playing the violin. My teacher always asked “If you can’t hum the melody for the song you’re playing, how can you expect to play the song well?” I’ve found that the same goes for the business world. If you don’t innately understand the products you’re selling, you can’t be completely succe…

What happens when more than 100 entrepreneurs embark on a 72-hour bus journey to concept, design and pitch the next big tech thing? With the right flow, pretty much anything they can imagine. StartupBus is one of the most unusual startup competitions around. In a nutshell, the competition invites th…

A few weeks ago, we brought a video crew up to the Cisco Spark office in San Francisco. We asked product managers Taylor, Renaldo, and Eric to show us Cisco Spark and chat about product development. Given Taylor is a former Stanford football player, Eric used to do standup comedy, and Renaldo is jus…

My mom…one of the best moms out there in my book.  She plans our fun family reunions, plays a mean game of golf, and keeps a busy household in order.  And she’s also a successful businesswoman with a very full plate.  She runs marketing and advertising for a small business and is an active member of…