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About Glen Lipka: Glen Lipka is the Vice President of User Experience at Marketo where he was the first non-founder employee that ran product management and UX for several years of the company’s development. Prior to Marketo, Glen was a Senior UI Designer at Intuit, Director of User Experience at Adchemy and started his career running a thirty-person web development company in NYC during the Internet bubble. Glen has been a pioneer in websites and web applications for over 15 years, pushing the envelope in interactivity on public facing websites to Rich Internet Applications (RIA) for businesses.  He speaks frequently on all aspects of building great products on the web, including NYU Stern School of Business and Stanford University.

Best practices in startup product management by Dan Olsen.

Dan has over 18 years of high-tech experience, including 5 years at Intuit where he led Quicken product management and launched an online brokerage. Dan also led product management at Friendster. Dan's areas of expertise are product management, development, UI design, marketing, and measuring /optimizing key metrics.

Dan consults to startups, usually as Interim VP of Product. He's advised startups such as Box.net, YouSendIt, MoodLogic, Epocrates, Xing, Angie's List, and Attensa. Dan has a BSEE from Northwestern, a Master's in Industrial Engineering from Virginia Tech, and an MBA from Stanford.

He's passionate about building successful, large-scale consumer websites and is a sought after speaker who has spoken at conferences including the O'Reilly Web 2.0 Expo, Facebook Fund REV, Startonomics.