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10 Marketing Lessons for Early-Stage Tech Startups

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I made every textbook mistake at my first startup, which is why I believe I was much more effective at my second one. The following are some lessons I learned about early-stage startup marketing. Because market is such a broad topic, I’m restricting these lessons to PR marketing (as opposed SEO, SEM, product marketing, etc.).

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Announcing a Deal I’ve Wanted to Talk About for a Year

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He had an idea for a startup that would help consumers better book service jobs and would take on Service Magic, which he believed had a business model that could be disrupted. In the same year they won Business Insider’s Startup competition. It’s nice to finally not be in stealth mode! Nice sweep!

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

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It was one of those brilliant startup brainstorms that comes to the team in a flash, with a giant thunderclap. Dont worry about selecting particularly good keywords, if youre new to SEM. Eric, Excellent article about an essential technique for startups. Just put in your credit card. I used to use $.05,

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Reincubate: Blog: Chief Technology Officer job description (for web, start-up or corporate)

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Share this: chief technical officer chief technology officer cto interim cto job description start-up startup cto web cto Weve been swapping some thoughts with Daniel Kehoe , a consulting CTO acquaintance of ours from across the pond. Tags: startup cto job description startupcto. Past contribution to one or more Open Source projects.

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This Week in VC Episode 6 with @Jason Calacanis: Best One Yet

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Nevertheless, if you share too much in your funding process or meet too many VCs expect a certain amount of your ideas to spread around the startup community. What are “Reg D” filings with the SEC and why does this make it harder to stay in stealth mode? and who had biz reasons for wanting to remain stealth.”. -

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Bitesize Tuesday: Tracx, Innovid, Kenshoo, uTest and More Investment Rounds [recap]

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The startup Tracx , which provides a SaaS solution for tracking and managing marketing campaign on social networks, has received an undisclosed investment from Israeli angel Zohar Gilon. Kenshoo , the SEM automation startup and Sequoia’s darling, has raised a fourth round of $8-10 million from Sequoia. calcalist ].

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Crisis Shmisis: Q2 2010 Closes with 40 deals and more than $400 million raised in Israel (Deal Summary)

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May 25, 2010 - ZeRTO , an Israeli startup developing cloud computing services announced that it has raised a first round of $6 million from Battery Ventures and existing investor Greylock Partners. Can ‘related content’ work as business model? The company has raised $6.2 million till date. 04/07/2010 04/07/2010 Dia Cardio Ltd.