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Guerilla Marketing, Brad Feld Style

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Serial entrepreneur, venture investor and startup accelerator pioneer Brad Feld has notoriously mocked traditional marketing throughout his career. Brad Feld, Managing Director, Foundry Group. According to Brad, “I would say my whole universe is probably categorized as guerilla marketing.

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

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On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. After my company was acquired by Salesforce.com I was asked to stop blogging and they took over my blog as an asset in the sale of the company. My blog was wiped out.

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My Pal Dave: A Triumph of Substance Over Style

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We all could learn a bit more about balance , as Brad Feld has outlined. I told him only 2 weeks ago when we were in London together that I wanted to write a blog post that has been in my head for 2 years. The Dave I know is a tireless traveler and loyal to his friends the way Brad Feld is. But he knows that.

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Entrepreneurship: Nature vs. Nurture? A Religious Debate

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Fred Wilson said as much on his blog also. That is true of all my blog posts. It is what I love the most about debates and one of the things I love most about blogging. I suspect Mr. Wadhwa used hyperbole in his TechCrunch blog post to get more readers to look at his work. So it is with entrepreneurship.

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

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Kathy Sierra at Business of Software 2009 - Business of Software Blog , May 4, 2010 "In the old days, getting customers was easy. Bending over: How to sell to large companies - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , May 24, 2010 This is a guest post by Steve Hanov , who blogs about programming and startups. m pleased.

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Why Startups Need to Blog (and what to talk about …)

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By definition, you read blogs. If you care about accessing customers, reaching an audience, communicating your vision, influencing people in your industry, marketing your services or just plain engaging in a dialog with others in your industry a blog is a great way to achieve this. People often ask me why I started blogging.

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How to Handle a VC Presentation with No Deck

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I wrote the summary notes in this blog post. In VC there are the obvious people including Bijan, Brad Feld, Fred Wilson, Josh Kopelman and Bryce Roberts. And did I really just try to drop an SAT word into my blog post? Talk about the existing solutions, the market opportunity and the competition. Mobile app?