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Fifth marketing, is it really that hard that you have to give away 50% of your stock to do it? You mean to tell me you don't know how Google Adwords works, or h
by dizzystar 14y ago
Fifth marketing, is it really that hard that you have to give away 50% of your stock to do it? You mean to tell me you don't know how Google Adwords works, or how to give a speech at user groups that have an interest in your MVP, or how to create social networking pages for your MVP, or how to make a web page and use SEO to bump it up to the top of Google? You really don't know how to set the pricing strategy, product, promotion, placement, process, and people? You don't even know how to use Vistaprint for cheap Business Cards that you pass out to people in real life and meet them at conventions, business meetings, or just bump into them at sporting events or whatever? You don't know how to contact web sites that do reviews of MVPs and can help promote it? You don't even know how to submit your blog or web site about your MVP to Hacker News?
Interesting to mix very easy (vista print business cards) and very effing hard together and act like it is all one level.
I do, however, agree with the overall article.
- einhverfr 14y agoYou know, it's interesting. I am finally co-founding a start-up with someone I have worked with in open source for a couple years. Just got the incorporation paperwork back. Exciting times. You know the initial stages of marketing are easy. Really taking it to the next level is quite difficult. There is a reason why there are people who run marketing firms.
- orionblastar 14y agoYes but once you do the initial marketing and it pays off, you can afford to hire the marketing firm to take it to the next level.
- einhverfr 14y agoVery true. Additionally, you will get more out of hiring the marking firm by getting all the little nuts and bolts done first. Honestly if I knew the guy personally and trusted him, the initial deal wouldn't be that bad. But I agree with the article that this smells worse than a three day old mackerel.