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Marketing Your Startup: A Billion-Dollar Company’s First Marketer Reflects Back

View from Seed

Ellie Mirman was the first marketer hired by the CMO of HubSpot, the Boston-based marketing software startup that IPOed in 2014. NextView Ventures: Thinking back to before anyone knew HubSpot or the company was headed towards an IPO, where did you even start to market the company? NVV: How did you adjust? Where do you start?

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #18: The strength of natural network effects

Austin Startup

unfortunately, social commerce morphed to mean solutions like Facebook eCommerce stores offered by numerous small vendors who are now mostly no longer in business. In contrast, our definition of social commerce meant social media, or word of mouth, applied in a commerce environment.