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Marketing Your Startup: A Billion-Dollar Company’s First Marketer Reflects Back

View from Seed

But even with that webinar’s success, we still had a lot of education to do in order to get people to understand what we did and even how we saw marketing in general, which we needed to do to generate demand and sales. Some startups are in stealth mode and maybe branding and beautiful design is important.

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boldstart in 2016, enterprise tech in 2017

BeyondVC

Combining the bottom up, user-driven model with forward thinking IT execs has resulted in shortened enterprise sales cycles across our portfolio and some phenomenal reference customers. and we expect this trend to continue.

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boldstart in 2016, enterprise tech in 2017

BeyondVC

Before diving into the standard year-end predictions on the enterprise, I thought I would share some data on our firm and our founding teams from 2016: we welcomed 9 new enterprise founding teams to the portfolio including Workrails (started by venture partner Jeff Leventhal), BigID , Hypr , Init.ai , and 5 stealth companies. SaaS 3.0 ?—?many

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