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Guerilla Marketing, Brad Feld Style

InfoChachkie

Rejecting the paint-by-numbers approach to corporate communications deployed by most marketing executives, Brad has embraced unconventional guerilla marketing tactics to help establish his venture capital firm, Foundry Group, as a thought leader in early-stage tech investing. companies should… focus on building amazing products.

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Here are 10 Tips from BuzzFeed to Make Your Content Go Viral

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We also talked about why Jon decided to leave Google to become an EIR at a VC firm (Polaris) – minute 33. But of course we also focused on making content go viral. I’ll write a post on how to give feedback to employees and then I’ll get emails from people telling me they forwarded it to their whole team.

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Make It Work- the real story

InfoChachkie

The company was always seeking capital. As an entrepreneur, my greatest lesson learned here was how difficult it is to find capital for a services business. Venture capital firms have a distaste for the smaller multiples earned by services businesses, along with the challenge to scale such a business. Of course).

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Should You Blog? (yes, and here’s how …)

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Now I’m a VC. The obvious starting point is to email a few friends and let them know you have a new blog. Don’t be overbearing – just an email saying, wanted to let you know about my new blog. I also recommend you put it under your email signature in a color other than black. Some search.

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Top 30 Startup Technology and Product Posts for September 2010

SoCal CTO

Chris Dixon , September 12, 2010 My most useful career experience was about eight years ago when I was trying to break into the world of VC-backed startups. I applied to hundreds of jobs: low-level VC roles, startups jobs, even to big tech companies. You should follow him on Twitter ( @jasonlbaptiste ) or say hi via email.

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The Entrepreneur Thesis

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Steven knew that from a fund perspective he wasn’t going to earn the amount of money that a typical VC might look for since we were selling early. But of course there is more to my views. Have you subscribed yet to my feed on Feedburner or do you want it delivered by email ? GRP Partners had also funded my first company.