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Guerilla Marketing, Brad Feld Style

InfoChachkie

Brad proudly described how the company successfully used thought leadership marketing to seed a marketplace in which companies can outsource their SEO campaigns to a legion of independent, third-party “optimizers.” One of the firm’s more infamous marketing stunts was their 2011 music video, entitled I’m A VC. Just be you.

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9 Women Can’t Make a Baby in a Month

Both Sides of the Table

Those of us that are willing to admit that we fawked things up in the first dot-com explosion and learned from our mistakes have the battle wounds to make more pragmatic decisions in 2011. I had my sales teams telling me we needed certain features to be competitive. The former was outsourced, the latter was our own team.

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Top 57 Online Startups Meets Technology Meets Product Posts for November 2010

SoCal CTO

Clearly it'd be more accurate to say "sometime in Q1 2011." 10 Tips for Enterprise Software Startups - ReadWriteStart , November 16, 2010 I started my career in enterprise software in the 1980s and after some years working in other areas (outsourcing and online media) I am back in the enterprise software game.