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We’re Hiring a Platform and Operations Associate at NextView

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Supporting other external PR and media relations for the firm. The post We’re Hiring a Platform and Operations Associate at NextView appeared first on NextView Ventures. Activities will include but not limit to: Planning and producing small- and large-scale events with entrepreneurs and high-level technology executives. How To Apply

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

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Ellie Mirman was the first marketer hired by the CMO of HubSpot, the Boston-based marketing software startup that IPOed in 2014. NVV: Lots of marketers are under pressure to come in and generate demand right away, whether because sales is asking for leads or founders are demanding PR or user growth.

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Welcoming Nicole Sievers to the NextView Team!

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Nicole most recently comes to us from SmartBear Software , where she was responsible for the launch and marketing for an entire product: overseeing activities like PR, creative, content creation, and social media engagement. hiring a great team. building a product people love. getting customers and. not running out of money (i.e.

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Repeat Founders and the Risk of a False Positive

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Their early hires are probably much stronger too, which allows for better execution as well. But if you are able to build beautiful products, get great PR coverage, and execute flawlessly on optimizing your marketing funnel, you are more likely to show some positive signs that things are sort-of working.

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Accidental VC: When Should Startups Announce Seed Funding?

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It’s a common question that every VC fields from founders — and founders field from other founders, and marketers field from founders, and PR people field from founders. So, when should they — or any seed-stage startup — think about drumming up some PR and making noise around funding? You get the idea.

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How a Seed-Stage Startup Should Think About Brand: A Conversation With Jesse Derris

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Jesse Derris is the founder and CEO of Derris & Company , a PR, branding, and communications firm based in New York. And try to listen to the people you’re hiring as experts. I think it’s important you do some sort of PR activation around launch across the board, because you can only launch once.

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Announcing NextView Operator Guilds

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And they tell us over and over again that they just care about four things: Hiring and developing a great team. Responsibilities included TV advertising, consumer media channels, creative, PR, research, UI/UX, photography, and brand strategy. We don’t sit in a room and pontificate about what they need — we just ask.