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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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7 Pitching Tips to Help You Crush Your Next Investor Meeting

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To help you crush your next investor meeting, we asked top VCs and tech leaders to share their best pitch advice. I’ve had many startup founders tell me that their startup literally has no competition,” said Frank Gruber, Cofounder of Tech.Co, Startup of the Year , and Established. “In Take a look at what they had to say!

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

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My blog linked to Brad Feld’s blog because I was so grateful for his series on term sheets and he was one of the biggest reasons that as a VC I felt compelled to blog. On December 3rd Brad Feld wrote a one paragraph blog post titled “ Raising Venture Capital &# in which he linked to my blog.

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Reflections of America this July 4th

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I wish we had better policies to help those that weren’t born with the same educational backgrounds as I was since education seems to be the great divider in terms of future opportunities. As Charles would tell you, even small donations help make young kids dreams come true. Let them stay and help create jobs.

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6 Steps To Raising Venture Capital – Hint: Preparation Matters More Than Your Pitch

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Step 1: The Person, Not The Firm – As Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson make clear in their book Venture Deals , entrepreneurs should identify specific venture partners, rather than target firms as a whole. Once you establish a modest level of the partner’s cyber-attention, determine how you can help them. Prep Steps.

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7 Critical Resources For A Thriving Startup Community

Startup Professionals Musings

I saw these addressed well in a new book, “ The Startup Community Way ,” by Brad Feld and Ian Hathaway. Apple has since capitalized on the top technical talent in Silicon Valley to stay ahead of the competition. Financial capital – revenue, equity, debt, funding. Network capital – relationships, connectedness.

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A Few Key People Really Can Make a Huge Difference

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He listed all of the product releases that were up coming, the customers that were in the pipeline and where he saw his competition moving. Who’s going to help you with improving your marketing / positioning to become a clear platform category leader like Twilio? Community Leaders + Organizers.