TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Twenty of the most promising and creative early-stage startups — chosen from the elite Startup Battlefield 200 — will bring the heat for $100,000 in the world-renown Startup Battlefield competition at TechCrunch Disrupt on October 18–20 in San Francisco. Prior to joining Sequoia, Chen worked at Emergence Capital and McKinsey.

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Startup Grind

AUGUST 16, 2018

Prepare a perfect video pitch What is the best way to present your idea or product? To make it more informative, you can add your video pitch and some customer reviews to it. So, you need to create a list of media contacts who might be interested in sharing your project. It’s all up to you and your creativity.?

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 1, 2021

For example, in addition to your standard contact information, company name and logo, you can include a picture, video, social media and links or QR codes that direct recipients to specific materials or destinations online. Related: How to DIY Your Public Relations Strategy. Digital press kit. High-quality headshots.

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TechCrunch

JULY 1, 2022

“This includes cutting non-performing products, decreasing R&D and general and administrative expenses, and doubling down on creative strategies to recover customer acquisition cost instantly to reduce burn associated with growth.” Pitch Deck Teardown: Wilco’s $7 million seed deck. Walter Thompson.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2021

Finance teams were constantly needing them for things like creating pitch decks. Or put more simply, she wanted to build a new kind of cloud storage that would serve as an alternative to Dropbox and Google Drive “built by, and for, creatives.”. And then, the company set about trying to change the way people share files. .

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 19, 2023

Brand journalism is a content marketing strategy that leans into what "be interesting" means to your target audience by defining "relevant" broadly. Brand journalism is media-style content published by a company. Last, brand journalism is not placed media. It's often called owned media for this reason.)

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Feedough

APRIL 16, 2021

Grassroots marketing is one of the most effective and economical marketing strategies which most companies are inclining towards to spread product awareness these days. Now that we have delved into what grassroots marketing is, looking at a couple of creative examples would give us a better insight and deeper understanding of the same.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JULY 1, 2021

To put your business on a path that increases the chances of survival and future growth start with 1) figuring out who your aspirational customer is and 2) designing your go-to-market strategy around her needs. Blogs/media outlets? How do they consume information? Focus on those that are not widely available.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

You’ll come away with actionable tips and strategies you can put to work right away. We’re talking funding tips — like creative bootstrapping, securing that elusive Series A and perfecting your pitch. We’re talking about marketing — building your brand, attracting earned (as in unpaid) media attention and growth marketing.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 11, 2021

A scientific or a creative marketer? Here’s a sample of the marketing functions at a typical early-stage startup: Brand marketing: Brand strategy, positioning, naming, messaging, visual identity, experiential, events, community. Communications: PR and media relations, content marketing, social media, thought leadership, influencer.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

Post on your social media accounts. Odds are, your startup has social media accounts (but if you don’t, drop what you’re doing and go set them up immediately). The best way to tackle social media for Small Business Saturday is to come up with a plan. Great marketing doesn’t just happen through media and press clips.

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

He brought his tech skills to a couple of entrepreneurs working on new media that developed into the Risk! A few months ago, he blasted out cold emails to pitch an intrapreneurship class. He earned an MBA by cramming on the weekends, then just had to start something entirely new, the strategy consulting firm Outglocal.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MAY 6, 2024

Building Strategically with Athletes, Entertainers, and Executives Reaching out to potential strategic investors with significant influence demands creativity and resourcefulness. Keep these things in mind when beginning the process of investor outreach to set up your conversations for long term success.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2022

That new offering was renamed as New State Mobile in January — as a strategy to avoid getting into trouble for the issues raised against the PUBG title earlier. We are investing in several markets, and India is a part of this global investment strategy. The creative director and CEO are from the U.S., How do you see that trend?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Zack is the creative talent. And Michael Kirby as EVP of Corp Dev was formerly an EVP at Fox Interactive Media, VP at Fox Sports, director of biz dev at ESPN not to mention a Yale undergrad, Wharton MBA. The “team beneath the team&# was as talented as any top team that pitches me startups. I could go on & on.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Knowing the Value Proposition is key to establishing a marketing strategy that distinguishes a company from its competition. Then, build a strategy behind your assessment that will be part of your business plan. Exit Strategy: How is it possible to choose an exit strategy when you have not yet started a business?

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Reforge

OCTOBER 20, 2022

These days, modern marketers diligently A/B test every landing page , try multiple variations of each ad creative , and never send an email without at least 2 alternate subject lines. We can get industry benchmarks for expected performance from blog posts or by talking to media buyers in our network. And it’s exhausting.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

For some early use cases, creativity > correctness Hallucinations are a known aspect of today’s LLMs, but for some use cases, the ability to make things up is a feature rather than a bug. It’s a strategy that we’ve been using from the beginning. Martin Casado, a16z 3. Entertainment is this $2T a year industry.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 27, 2021

In an interview with reporter Anna Heim, Romania-based marketer Robert Katai discussed some of the methods he uses to help clients refine their content and branding strategies. Ramp and Brex draw diverging market plans with M&A strategies. Ramp and Brex draw diverging market plans with M&A strategies.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 4, 2022

Often, the key techniques for marketing embarrassing products involve creativity and paving the way for people to speak comfortably and openly about the problem. Do not use statistics or traditional pitch methods. The last thing an embarrassing product needs is a stiff, traditional advertising pitch. Embrace the embarrassment.

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Red Rocket

APRIL 15, 2021

In-House Teams vs. Third Party Agencies The decision to manage campaigns internally vs. externally often comes down to the following things: (1) the size of your media budgets; (2) the complexities/channels of the campaign; and (3) the skills of your team and the analytics tools you have to work with.

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Jason Malki

APRIL 17, 2023

I had the pleasure of interviewing Jason Scharf, a Bio + Health strategy leader and active early-stage investor in the life science and digital health sectors. I began putting together a pitch deck and came to two important realizations. How can our readers follow you on social media? And from there it was off to the races.

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Startup Blogpost

MARCH 3, 2023

Sumeer Kaur , CEO, Lashkaraa Technology Affects Customer Buying Journey Every startup needs to understand the customer buying journey in order to successfully design a strong business strategy. Furthermore, AI can be used within emails and social media campaigns of a brand in order to promote its products or services more effectively.

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Paul G. Silva

JUNE 14, 2023

The company pitched to River Valley Investors in April 2022 and RVI invested one week later. Hitpoint Studios Whether a client is looking to launch a new product or solve a technical challenge, HitPoint will deliver projects on time and on budget – through creative design, excellent engineering, and thoughtful use of new technologies.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 4, 2019

“We’re using … TinyLetter for our “Content Newsletter” … and Buffer to schedule social media posts. Point Nine Capital uses Mention for media monitoring. I use Hootsuite to coordinate my social media activity , which consists primarily of Teten.com, PEVCTech.com , Linkedin , AngelList , and (passively) Twitter and Facebook.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2021

Users can upload five photos (either from social media apps like Facebook or their phone’s camera roll) — and share some “topline information” about themselves. Hence users are pushed to act quickly — and “be a bit spontaneous”, as it puts it — if they want to get a date that night.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 27, 2011

We all read them to get a sense of what is going on in the world, peeling back layers of the old world in which media was too scripted. Much of my traffic is through referring websites and/or social media. Social media is ephemeral. I have board meetings, company pitches, internal partner meetings, etc. Some search.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Moranne and I are Millennials, as are most of our staff, so social media, digital strategy and technology is integral to everything we do. Most of the people we’ve placed are looking for something more than a paycheck; they want a job that lets them be creative and fosters trust and respect.

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Campaign Monitor

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Generating content for newsletters month after month can prove challenging for even the most seasoned (and creative) marketer. . In addition to teasing a product release on social media, it’s important to build buzz on email. Every brand and business uses social media these days. One of the best parts about email newsletters?

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