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FEBRUARY 7, 2013

I acted as the occasional mentor, advisor and coach to Ethan. And I certainly didn’t want him having to trapse up-and-down Sand Hill Road informing every VC of his next idea. The company was called Red Beacon. I was standing with him when he won the TechCrunch 50 award.

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JUNE 27, 2011

Because market is such a broad topic, I’m restricting these lessons to PR marketing (as opposed SEO, SEM, product marketing, etc.). Also be careful about VCs. But once a VC has heard your idea he can’t “un-think&# it. The following are some lessons I learned about early-stage startup marketing.

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MARCH 1, 2011

Consider Usher a hard-working early-stage VC. And he has acted as a personal mentor for Justin ever since. It’s that sort of mentorship experience that drives many of us hands-on VCs. Justin was going through the ride that Usher himself had been through when he was younger. Girls started appearing to get his autograph.

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