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eCommerce: A VC Story [guest post]

VC Cafe

Outsourcing, for example, is a common thread among many eCommerce companies and supports capital efficiency by enabling dedicated focus. For example, some companies may choose to outsource their SEM activities, some may decide that their R&D can be outsourced, while others may eventually outsource customer support.

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SuperMac War Story 9: Sales, Not Awards « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Hopefully you and your co-founders are experts in one or two parts (agile development, SEO/SEM, etc.) Or by a VP of Marketing who talks “branding&# , SEO/SEM, PR agency, etc. Initially your job is to understand each of the parts of your business model before you hire someone to do it.

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Who can build the marketing machine?

This is going to be BIG.

People have gotten so specialized, that we have people doing nothing but community management, SEO/SEM, PR, etc. This basically makes them completely unusable as the first marketing employee of a startup--which would be a terrific job for an up and coming marketer.