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10 Marketing Lessons for Early-Stage Tech Startups

Both Sides of the Table

The following are some lessons I learned about early-stage startup marketing. For early-stage consumer companies I would be careful not to market futures at all. While all your competitors are trying to copy your model, you’re already on to the next thing on your engineering team.

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GRP Announces $200 Million Fund. Rebrands as Upfront Ventures

Both Sides of the Table

We have previously raised funds in 1996 ($200 million), 2000 ($400 million) and 2008/9 ($200 million). Santa Monica is the place where the highest concentration of early-stage startups are created if you consider also the contiguous geography of Venice Beach. Let’s start with the fund.

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Turning the Camera on Chris Dixon

Both Sides of the Table

He and I once took different sides of an debate about whether “VC signaling&# in early-stage deals is a serious problem or not. The firm focuses on early stage companies in the Northeast but occasionally invests in California startups. I’ve also found him to not be dogmatic either.

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Boston’s WebInno Is Now BIG

Genuine VC

Now Boston’s largest regular tech conference, every few months it draws hundreds of attendees from the entrepreneurial ecosystem – including founders, software engineers, startup executives, and investors. In the mid-2000’s, there weren’t a lot of options to do so, as the ecosystem vibe still hadn’t recovered from the dot-com bubble burst.

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What we can learn from the evolution of Content Management Systems

The Next Web

In the early stages of every technology, the market is usually dominated by products built for early adopters who are typically tech savvy – this mainly consists of developers who like to have full control over a product and its features. In general, at the time, you had to be an engineer to even think about creating a website.

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Open Source Business Model

SoCal CTO

Dr. Karrer was valedictorian at Loyola Marymount University, attended the University of Southern California as a Tau Beta Pi fellow, one of the top 30 engineers in the nation, and received a M.S. Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh. I understand his frustration. in Computer Science.

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Meet Manu Kumar, Chief Firestarter at K9 Ventures

K9 Ventures

What everyone can agree on, though, is that there are definitely more seed and early stage funds now than ever before, and more people willing to give money to young companies looking to make it big. We grew it to just under 20 people and were acquired at the height of the bubble in 2000. That’s what K9 does.