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Copying Your Competitors' Messaging Is a Losing Strategy

Consumers are brand blind, until you give them a reason not to be The impact of copying messaging is turning your product…

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Real Results: How to Increase Qualified Demand by 21% and Ad Performance by 39%

I have spent many years taking venture-backed tech startups from fledgling to established. At that critical go-to-market phase, when you’re focussing on…

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Your Product Might be Killer. But Without Killer Marketing, it will Still Fail

This post is for founders of venture-backed tech startups with a Product or Engineering background. I spend my life working with venture-backed…

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3 Start-Up Lessons From Warren Buffett

  When I attended the Berkshire Hathaway shareholders meeting in early May, I didn’t expect much would be applicable to early stage…

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An Interview With Silicon Valley Veteran, Matt Murphy of Menlo Ventures.

Matt is a Partner at Menlo Ventures, and focuses on investments in cloud infrastructure and AI-first SaaS applications. Matt has led investments…

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Great Marketing Strategy, Even With Average Execution, Wins

The motivation for this piece came from a recent McKinsey article titled “The Case for Digital Reinvention,” wherein they make the case…

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