You’re a SaaS startup CEO, or maybe a VP-Marketing or VP-Sales. Or you hold some other appropriate early stage, senior executive title – no matter. The company has come up with an interesting idea and built a prototype. You’ve raised a seed round, flew headlong into development and now at long last have a product […]
The Importance of Content Marketing for Tech Startups
Content Marketing is very much a mainstream marketing activity these days, in nearly all segments of the marketplace. It’s particularly important of tech savvy buyers looking for education in a particular product category. It’s rise in importance corresponds with the general degradation of outbound marketing response rates, along with Internet-driven prospect preferences toward more control […]
6 Common Areas Where a Tech Company Startup Budget is Wasted
One of the most important skills that an early stage technology management team really needs to have is the ability to objectively manage the startup budget. This is a very difficult task as senior managers are dealing with so many unknowns it is often hard to know where to spend – and where not to. […]
Lead Nurturing Programs for Tech Businesses
So you’ve put up a website, sent out a few press releases, done some social media marketing, maybe some PPC, SEO, etc. If your software or hardware company is more mature, you’ve done a LOT of all of these and probably a lot more in the way demand generation. Now that you’ve generated all of […]
Software Product/Market Fit
Finding the right Product/Market fit is maybe the most important differentiator between success and failure of a new software company or product. Yet even though this software product/market fit should be obvious, it is often glossed over in the excitement of a new enterprise. Why is this? In some cases, people don’t really want to […]