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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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Why You Should Give Before You Get

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I know Brad Feld wrote a similar post. Brad is the ultimate giver. It’s why long before you ever want press coverage you need to spend time actually helping journalists, respecting their profession, taking their calls (not having your PR department screen them) and knowing what interests them. As good as they come.

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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. But aside from choosing the time of day to focus on signal vs. noise, Brad’s post got me thinking about another question – what is signal and what is noise? Brad is a zero inbox kind of guy. I enjoy that.

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Don’t Let Anybody Tell You Not to Speak Up. Here’s Why …

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Here is a quote you should regret believing “ The press takes him literally, but not seriously; his supporters take him seriously, but not literally.” He has announced he will cut foreign aid to countries if they could possibly used to aid women’s productive rights in poor countries who lack access to proper care.

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Twiistup 6 Highlights

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Andy Sack, Dave McClure, Brad Feld & Jason Nazar (photo by Jolie Odell). We had an excellent opening panel on early-stage investing with Dave McClure (Founders Fund – NorCal), Brad Feld (Foundry Group, Boulder) and Andy Sack (Founders Co-Op, Seattle). In the afternoon we had a corker of panel.

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How Boards Need to Evolve Over Time

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I should note that my friend Brad Feld has written a new book on the subject that I would recommend if you want the bible on the topic. I admit that I haven’t yet read it but I’ve had numerous discussions with Brad over the years about board structure & conduct and consider him a mentor on the topic. Mentorship.

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We Need to Have Sympathy for Those With Depression. It is an Illness

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And my friend Brad Feld & his wife had written a book on the importance of personal relationships which made me want to weigh in on that. It’s now in the press that Jody committed suicide. . And my wife weighed in, too. I guess it’s been a heavy year. I’ll be back to business topics by the next post.

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