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

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I acted as the occasional mentor, advisor and coach to Ethan. ” When merchants sign up MyTime then helps them with marketing activities through marketing automation tools they’ve build across SEM, social, and email. The company was called Red Beacon. I was standing with him when he won the TechCrunch 50 award.

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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.). They certainly struggle to find mentors as there is nothing more frustrating than trying to help a company who is afraid to tell you anything.

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What Every Entrepreneur Could Learn from Justin Bieber

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And he has acted as a personal mentor for Justin ever since. Only after you’ve done all this can you consider whether or not it makes sense to pay for any marketing such as SEM, PR, trade show expenditure, etc. Consider Usher a hard-working early-stage VC. You can appeal to your audience directly and build support.