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Kill All The Marketers?

March 1, 2011 by Steve King with 572 views

Fred Wilson, a well known VC, caused quite a stir with a recent post that started with: "I believe that marketing is what you do when your product or service sucks ..." After panning marketing a bit more and explaining why startups shouldn't market, he provides his advice on how startups should market.  This very confusing... [read more]

Why A New Startup Shouldn’t Have a Marketing Budget

February 25, 2011 by Brad Feld with 449 views

As my partners at Foundry Group know, every time I hear the word “marketing” I throw up a little in my mouth. I hate traditional marketing and have always resisted it early in the life of a new company. Fred Wilson has a phenomenal blog post up this morning titled Marketing. Among other things he demonstrates his mastery of marketing by... [read more]

Search and the social graph

December 14, 2009 by Chris Dixon with 170 views

Google has created a multi-billion-dollar economy based on keywords. We use keywords to find things and advertisers use keywords to find customers. As Michael Arrington points out, this is leading to increasing amounts of low quality, keyword-stuffed content. The end result is a very spammy internet. (It was depressing to see Tim... [read more]

Would You Want It If It Were Free?

July 5, 2009 by Brad Feld with 175 views

The meme of “Free” is one again making the rounds. I expect it reignited when Chris Anderson’s new book Free: The Future of a Radical Price (available on Amazon for $17.81) quickly followed by Malcolm Gladwell’s semi-scathing review in the New Yorker titled “Priced to Sell.  Is Free the future?” (I kind of feel like Gladwell wimped... [read more]

Sunday Morning Reading

March 22, 2009 by Brad Feld with 140 views

I usually sleep in on Sunday’s but I’ve got a 16-mile run and want to meet Amy at the end of it at 10:30 for brunch.  So – good morning 5am and my normal daily reading routine. I ran across a lot of intriguing stuff this morning that I thought I’d share with you. I encourage you to trade your TV watching time for a handful of... [read more]

Be An Innovator

March 1, 2009 by Brad Feld with 196 views

When I was on vacation last week, I read John Bogle’s book Enough: True Measures of Money, Business, and Life.  In addition to be a superb book, it had a bunch of tasty little nuggets in it.  One of my favorites was “the three i’s – innovator, imitator, and idiot” that was attributed to Warren Buffett.I thought of this nugget this... [read more]

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