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10 Marketing Lessons for Early-Stage Tech Startups

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Because market is such a broad topic, I’m restricting these lessons to PR marketing (as opposed SEO, SEM, product marketing, etc.). Where Stealth is Good – There’s a lot of discussions on the web about whether startups should be stealthy before they launch or not. Not everyone has a spare 40 mill for a re-do.

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Announcing a Deal I’ve Wanted to Talk About for a Year

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And I had been telling my partners for a couple of years that I thought Ethan was one of the more talented entrepreneurs I had come across in San Francisco. We generally have a policy to only fund entrepreneurs once the first version of a product has shipped or it near to shipping. We like to be able to see the concept.

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Your Product Needs to be 10x Better than the Competition to Win. Here’s Why:

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To say he has had an impact on the web would be an understatement. He was a life-long entrepreneur and the first business he created out of college (actually, he founded it while he was at Caltech) was a company that manufactured high quality audio speakers. Too many entrepreneurs focus on dilution. I think this makes no sense.

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How Startups Can Use Metrics to Drive Success

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How many through SEM? If you have multiple versions of your product, how many are web vs. mobile? per click on an SEM basis this is NOT your cost to acquire a customer – you need to add conversion rate. Most people under estimate the challenge of winning “share of mind” the least understood concept with tech entrepreneurs.

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You Don’t Need to be Rich to be an Entrepreneur

Startup Professionals Musings

Do basic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Marketing (SEM) yourself. Try Web-Ex, free teleconferencing, and Skype instead of international travel for client meetings. As a result, being an entrepreneur in now within the financial reach of almost everyone. Sales and marketing costs. That wasn’t even possible a few years ago.

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Search Engine Marketing - No Panacea for Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

Probably every one of you who has a business and a website have been approached through email or personal contact, and asked to spend money on Search Engine Marketing (SEM). SEM is sometimes called “buying your way into search results.” Tags: entrepreneurs startups. Both have the same end goal of getting people to your website.

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5 Tips For Startups To Win With Social Media

Startup Professionals Musings

Social media is so pervasive in today’s world that every entrepreneur believes instinctively that they know how to use it for their startup. Your plan should include a well-designed web site, events, press releases, and search engine marketing (SEM). business entrepreneur Lon Safko marketing social media startup'