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10 Marketing Lessons for Early-Stage Tech Startups

Both Sides of the Table

Where Stealth is Good – There’s a lot of discussions on the web about whether startups should be stealthy before they launch or not. My general rule is that it’s good to be stealth in the early days while you’re building your product and testing your market. Most people totally advise against stealth.

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The Stealth Mode: Trada’s Position on Staying Stealth

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Trada Blog: Paid Search Marketing, Online Advertising and Small Biz Trada's blog for small businesses making paid search, online advertising and social media easier to understand. One of my favorite startup debates is about stealth mode. It seems like the approach du jour is blog first, fundraise second.

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Twitter Link Roundup #156 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

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crowdSPRING Blog – [link]. crowdSPRING’s Small Business Spotlight of the Week: mor.sl | crowdSPRING Blog – [link]. crowdSPRING Blog – [link]. Campaigns | NYT FiveThirtyEight – [link]. The Difference Between Stealth Mode and Quiet Mode – [link]. Just got acquired? – [link].

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Five case studies you'll see at the Lean Startup Conference 2015

Startup Lessons Learned

As part of this process, the company’s CMO Rishi Dave, is encouraging teams to launch campaigns faster. The United States Digital Service, a federal government agency, is building a ‘stealth startup.’ Tweet us @leanstartup , and we might feature you in a blog post, too! Get the details here.

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Lessons Learned: Using AdWords to assess demand for your new.

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, November 7, 2008 Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online service, step-by-step If you want to build an online service, and you dont test it with a fake AdWords campaign ahead of time, youre crazy. Start an AdWords campaign. This post has been removed by a blog administrator.

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Nobody Announces Their Seed Round Anymore and That’s a Mistake

View from Seed

It’s not about teeing yourself up for one big fundraising process six months prior to cash-out, but rather often the optimal path is an running ongoing campaign with prospective VCs who demonstrate true interest. There are legitimate reasons for a startup to be in stealth mode.

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

View from Seed

We started with a general webinar about how to turn your website into a marketing machine, then we went on to SEO, then blogging, then social media. For awhile, that channel was a share option on all our blog posts, and we tried paying for stumbles for some campaigns. How did you address that? EM: We had waves of topics.

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