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Looking for examples from founders, early stage teams and investors. What are the common growth and marketing challenges you face? What kinds of solutions have you tried?

I'm offering a free hour of hands-on marketing and growth help for up to ten founders or early stage teams. Need help with branding? Target audience? Go to marketing? Customer acqu…

Don't sleep on the benefits of DM. And automated DM remarketing like this is a killer touch for the high value bottom funnel prospects and returning customers.

A couple recommendations... 1. Get References: ask for references for previous employers/managers and coworkers. You'll want to focus those conversations around the potential co-fo…

I've been working on a UX/Conversion Optimization blog post and was doing some research on web design across different verticals and business types. As you start to look around, yo…

ActiveCampaign, ConvertKit and Klaviyo are all solid paid alternatives that provide a range of list CRM, marketing automation, audience insights and performance tracking. ConvertKi…

A couple questions to ask yourself before your leave: 1. Why did you join this company? Was it a personal connection or admiration for the CTO? Or do you actually like the company/…

1. Manage Up: no matter your level, there's someone you're going to report to or be accountable to. Get to know them, their function and focus areas, expectations, how they operati…

Absolutely, happy to help. Feel free to ping me if you have any more questions.

Both journaling and business writing these days. Trying to be more intentional with writing to get in better practice, refine my skills and work through shaping clearer points of v…

Hahah. We’ve used lightly electrified mat a couple times. Now if we put it at the door the cat just sits quietly across the hall. Don’t even need to turn it on now.

Zoom: it's the only video conference platform that just works without any hassle Google Apps(Docs, Sheets, Slides): these win over MS Online b/c you can actually work live in the d…

7 AM: wake up, no alarm most days thank to one very persistent and hungry cat that likes to jump on my head or scratch doors to make noise. 7:02, feed the cats. 7:15, make a cup of…

Got tired of building businesses for someone else and decided to finally go out on my own.

Agree with @buboard below that academics likely aren't the right target audience. Before giving up, I recommend testing two paths to validate whether there's real opportunity or no…

Our bed. Seriously. I never paid much attention to my bed and typically bought a less expensive mattress. My last one was a quite firm memory foam mattress that was definitely firm…

I recommend reducing the equity stake to something like 5% now, with an expiration of 5 years. This should be small enough that it won't effect him or the bottom line for the busin…

I'm in the same boat right now. Our first is due at the end of October. Generally, my wife and I feel as prepared as we can be. We've been fortunate to see most of our friends have…

What blogs, forums or people do you read for growth and marketing information?