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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. . “ We need to learn from doing, by trial-and-error. If I can help you avoid some of my first-time mistakes it would be a victory.

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Startup New York venture capital firm seeking summer/fall virtual interns

David Teten

SOP Capital is a new, early-stage, New York-based VC focused on East Coast companies. We will only consider candidates with a minimum of two summers worth of experience in a professional services or technology company environment. Company overview. Flexible hours and start/end dates.

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Leaving Government for the Private Sector – Part 2

Steve Blank

Reading how she moved in 2021 from CIA ops to a quantum technology company offered insightful career transition advice for those leaving her agency. However, many VCs have also accrued years/decades as domain experts in the technologies/and or industries they invest in.) Laura Thomas is a former CIA operations officer.

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What Happens When Startups Turn from Their Innovation Stage to Operational Excellence?

Both Sides of the Table

As an early-stage VC I love this phase. I will always remember fondly my coffee meeting 5 years ago with my friend Sam Rosen in New York City shortly after Hurricane Sandy. Sam began drawing out plans for a new way to provide storage after he had horrific experiences with traditional storage after the storm.

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The NextView Ventures Manifesto

View from Seed

It occurred to me that although we mentioned our new thematic approach when we raised our last fund in 2017, we haven’t really shared a broader manifesto about how we are approaching the early stage market. It’s been an interesting several years in the early stage venture eco-system, and the sands have shifted considerably.

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Austin: a magnet for talent and resources

Austin Startup

a founding team with deep domain expertise, novel technology, and rabid early adopters. we have big tech (AAPL, AMZN, FB, GOOG ,TSLA), big early stage bets ( Restream’s $50M Series A ), big late stage bets ( RigUp’s $300M Series D ), consumer tech , fintech , insuretech , healthtech , CPG , DTC … the list goes on.

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Why a Company Can’t “Be More Like a Startup”

Steve Blank

As more and more companies face disruption from globalization, new technology, and startups that have more capital than the incumbents, the continuing cry from Wall Street investors is, “Why can’t companies be as innovative as startups?”. Today, New York City has 13,587 yellow-taxi medallions and more than 50,000 Uber and Lyft cars.

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