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Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouhi

SoCal CTO

She is a go to person for me when I have questions around technology or early stage marketing and branding. I've been President of my marketing, branding, creative and advertising firm for, yikes, 30 years. We do a lot of B2B and also have an "Early Stage Branding" practice for technology startups.

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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

The market size for online advertising, e-commerce, and web premium services are 1/10th to 1/3rd the size they are today. I’m the founder, ex Hewlett-Packard Director of Advertising and former SVP at Millward Brown (global brand/ad research firm owned by WPP). Thanks from switzerland, Nice story! Ps check mypicasso.com.

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Austinites represent at SXSW 2018

Austin Startup

Salon H Monday, March 12 How Smart Venture Money Isn’t Smart But You Can Be with Mass Challenge Texas Director Mike Millard Research shows most venture funds under perform relevant public market indicies, yet the diversification strategies practiced in the public markets can enhance the risk-adjusted returns for investors in early stage companies.

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Innovation Outposts in Silicon Valley – Going to Where the Action Is

Steve Blank

Other companies operating in small markets with little R&D resources in their home country (ABB, Novartis and Hoffmann-La Roche in Switzerland, Philips in the Netherlands and Ericsson in Sweden) pursued R&D outside their home country by necessity. They let companies develop products to launch in world markets simultaneously.