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

View from Seed

But even with that webinar’s success, we still had a lot of education to do in order to get people to understand what we did and even how we saw marketing in general, which we needed to do to generate demand and sales. Some startups are in stealth mode and maybe branding and beautiful design is important. Where do you start?

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Twitter Link Roundup #130 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Are You Willing To Pay For The Change You’re Demanding? Sequoia Confirms Existence of “Stealth” Scout Program. When Selling is the Worst Way to Win Customers – [link].

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Lean Thinking

SVPG

The book shares quite a few good techniques for validating the market/demand, validating the solution, and validating the growth engine. A head start is rarely large enough to matter, and time spent in stealth mode-away from customers-is unlikely to provide a head start. The only way to win is to learn faster than anyone else.”

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The Red Queen Problem – Innovation in the DoD and Intelligence Community

Steve Blank

We used these tools to keep pace with the Soviet threats and eventually used silicon, semiconductors and stealth to create an offset strategy to leapfrog their military. The result will be agency leadership creating new organizational structures that make innovation a continual process rather than an ad hoc series of heroic efforts.

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Socialware Launches Social Middleware Platform

Austin Startup

Socialware is emerging from stealth mode, and being increasingly public about its products and services. “Socialware is leveraging a ground swell in both consumer demand for public social sites and market validation from the enterprise that these tools work,&# said Mike Maples, Jr., managing partner at Maples Investments.

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27 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

I also grew up with a father who had traditional values around gender roles, favoring female domesticity over entrepreneurship and leadership. For those that cannot afford the services of my company, I make sure to volunteer in leadership positions with the Junior League of San Diego. Thanks to Teo Vanyo, Stealth Agents ! #18-

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Announcing SnapTrip

The Equity Kicker

He has great personal qualities – he’s passionate, driven, smart, charismatic, humble and tenacious with a clear vision of what he wants to build and the leadership skills required to build it. Excitingly, if successful, SnapTrip will grow the market by matching demand for late availability deals with discounted supply.

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