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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. Because market is such a broad topic, I’m restricting these lessons to PR marketing (as opposed SEO, SEM, product marketing, etc.). I call this “marketing futures.&# You need some guidelines to make decisions.

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

Both Sides of the Table

Lately I’ve been having to say things I thought I’d never have to remind people, like, “getting to positive gross margin in several territories is a very low bar to claim success” or “profitable excluding marketing costs” is not actually a real thing. Market Size. MakeSpace provides physical storage.

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How Startups Can Use Metrics to Drive Success

Both Sides of the Table

One of the things I discuss the most with the portfolio companies I’m involved with is that “you manage what you measure.”. How many through SEM? Usually you have a catch-all bucket for “direct” or similar that often came through PR or word-of-mouth. You Manage What you Measure. How many adds came through organic SEO?

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Cracking The Code: Getting the most of your online marketing: the In.

Cracking the Code

Getting the most of your online marketing: the In & Out of SEM/SEO. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Monday, February 12, 2007. on a scale of 1-4). on a scale of 1-4).

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Who can build the marketing machine?

This is going to be BIG.

This is just a theory, but it feels to me that there's a talent gap in the marketing space--or a few of them. Fab.com (First Round portfolio company) just announced a new round of funding and that they reached 350,000 subscribers. Secondly, agencies and big companies seem to have caused a management gap on the marketing side as well.

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Cracking The Code: Unveilling of the Bessemer's 10 laws of Cloud.

Cracking the Code

As the first segment to emerge in scale and the most application oriented, SaaS has lead the market to date with the largest market size, highest gross margins, and highest per-seat pricing. 2 comments: Peter Cohen Managing Partner, SaaS Marketing Strategy Advisors. Portfolio. (3). sales and marketing. (10).

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Cracking The Code: The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008.

Cracking the Code

Labels: SaaS , sales and marketing , software. For example, you can provide a solution to automate marketing, but if the customer doesnt know some key best practices for how to effectively market online, then its unlikely that theyll get a lot of value out of a marketing automation solution. Posted by Philippe Botteri.