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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. companies should… focus on building amazing products. If you have amazing products, the marketing of those products is trivial.

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

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Brad Feld is a fountain of knowledge & wisdom. Brad on blogging. The value of Pitch Decks; Brad’s personal preferences on deal presentation; and Brad’s practice of accepting cold approaches via email. Very few people can do a good job with a presentation that is emailable.”.

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How Sendgrid Makes Sure Those App Emails Go Through, With Jim Franklin

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If you're an application developer, sending emails through your application can be a chore. It turns out it's not just a quick line of code to send an email -- it's also a hassle to make sure that those emails get delivered, that your email isn't classified as spam, and handling all sorts of delivery issues.

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One Man’s Signal is Another Man’s Noise

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After the weekend kerfuffle over AngelList I was reading Brad Feld’s post on Signal vs. Noise. It’s apropos because there is so much noise these days with email, Twitter, Facebook, blogs, web shows, etc. I agree with Brad that we each need to reduce noise in our daily lives. They don’t have market power.

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Why You Should Give Before You Get

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I see it on email even more. I know Brad Feld wrote a similar post. Brad is the ultimate giver. ” In it he talked about how he gets daily emails asking for intros to Oprah (he does a lot of work with her) and his advice. Later on he would offer to share his advice on SEO with other portfolio companies.

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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. Dave is terrible with email. He’s so bad that his email auto-responder tells you he likely won’t email you back. How to help his companies. He doesn’t email you. Brad does this kind of thing for people. But he knows that.

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Understanding the Power of Your Human Networks

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I spent an hour across two phone calls with him telling him why I believe MakeSpace will be a billion dollar company (which I do). I reviewed an email from Kara Nortman, the CEO of Moonfrye who is working on putting together venture debt. I then traded emails with two former senior tech professionals in LA. Roger Ehrenberg.