There are a lot of ways to look at the journey of starting and growing a tech startup company to maturity. One way to look at it is like solving a puzzle. A big, scary, complex puzzle with thousands of shapes, colors and pieces. Every tech startup, from the most royal, well-funded ones to the […]
Tech Startup Social Media Strategy and Tactics
Everyone knows that social media marketing is a CRITICAL promotion tactic these days. But what a huge corporation does on a social media platform to promote it’s brand is usually dramatically different from a hardware, SaaS or software startup. Mostly this has to due with the vast difference in monetary and personnel resources of Giant […]
6 Egregious Habits of IT Company CEOs
When I got my first job in the IT industry at HP way back when, the enlightened management style that I encountered was a revelation. I had worked early in my career at large, “old-school” industrial companies where “top down”, authoritarian management approaches (and other practices much worse) were still the norm. The management style […]
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. […]
