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Book: Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine

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If you are looking for information on the public markets, this is not the blog you should be reading. Instead, I encourage you to go read Fred Wilson’s post Market Meltdowns or Howard Lindzon’s post Momentum Monday – A Panic For The Ages.

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Founder Market Fit

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We constantly hear about “product market fit.” ” But my post yesterday about The Power of Passion When Starting Your Company was about “founder market fit.” The three of them had extraordinary founder market fit, well before they figured out the product market fit.

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The Illusion of Product/Market Fit for SaaS Companies

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“We have product/market fit.” ” “We are searching for product/market fit.” ” “We are raising this financing to find product/market fit.” ” “Our customer traction demonstrates product/market fit.” ” Product/market fit.

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Sympoz Is Looking for a VP of Marketing

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They are searching for a great head of marketing. They are growing rapidly, generated over a million dollars in revenue in their first year, and are now looking for an experienced VP of Marketing to join the founders as an integral member of the executive team to lead all aspects of marketing.

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Why A New Startup Shouldn’t Have a Marketing Budget

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As my partners at Foundry Group know, every time I hear the word “marketing&# I throw up a little in my mouth. I hate traditional marketing and have always resisted it early in the life of a new company. Fred Wilson has a phenomenal blog post up this morning titled Marketing. were a key part of every startup plan.

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More On Recruiting Programmers To Your Startup

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They, and others, continue to aggressively search for great software developers to join their team – when I look at the Foundry Group Jobs page I see well over 100 open positions for developers across our portfolio and I know this list undercounts since not all of the companies we are investors in are listed there.

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Endless Meaningless Words in Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital

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” There were different flavors, but if I summarized, it would be: Is the public market in a bubble? ” I’ve never tried to time the markets. I am not going to ever try to time the markets. I did, however, find (and buy) a Baboon Blood flask via a Google search. Is VC in a bubble? Are SPACs a bubble?