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If you build it, they won't come, unless.

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Except the "strategy" is a tirade of drivel I've heard so many times I can lip-sync as the words spew out the founder's mouth: "We're going to A/B-test AdWords campaigns until we discover our hook.". In a world where everyone and their brother is "joining the conversation" (oops, I use that phrase constantly!), After release of v3.0

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Techstars and The Nature Conservancy

Feld Thoughts

Amy is currently on the TNC Global Campaign Committee and on the TNC Africa Affinity Group for Women and Girls. We also support TNC’s work with indigenous women environmental community leaders in the Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea. TNC’s global reach makes it a very exciting organization to support.

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User-generated content for startups

The Startup Toolkit

If you don’t have either performance data or best practices, then you need to either charge based on performance (which nobody will be happy about, including you) or spend a while as your own guinea pig running a [set of] user-facing campaign[s]. ”) which kill the virality and thus the campaign.

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