View from Seed

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Instead, following PR 101 to get the most bang?—?and While later-stage startups that may attract unwanted competitive attention by showing that their model is working with later rounds of financing, I believe that at the seed stage few really care that you raised $1.5M. and hopefully media coverage?—?by

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Much of the growth in funding is attributed to later stage rounds (Next Insurance $250M, Snyk $200M, Gong.io $200, Redis Labs $100M, etc etc). In the first 3 quarters of 2020, Israeli startups raised $7.5 billion, close to the amount that was raised in the whole of 2019 ($7.9 billion) which was a record year.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 5, 2015

The checklist below is full of critical to-dos you simply can’t overlook, whether you’re setting a schedule for your board meeting, finding the necessary insurance plans, or communicating with your lawyer about your regulatory filings and how they align with your PR strategy. We hope this helps you stay on-task and efficient!

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 27, 2018

PR Outreach. Content and PR outreach involves reaching out to different sites, publications and blogs in hopes of getting content written by you, published. If your content is as relevant at a later stage as it is now, it has evergreen qualities. What if that’s all an illusion? Let’s dig into these ‘what if’s.

Marketing 113

Marketing PR Later Stage Startup 113

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2018

Sometimes engagement at the later stages seems to go dry. If you’re ever been involved with enterprise marketing you know how important it is to have marketing collateral and to have email drip campaigns and to drive re-marketing campaigns to prospects who showed interest but didn’t convert and to run PR so that you stay top of mind.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 4, 2023

No, but really, but we have like junior pr ex execs within the team, like with a handful of years of experience. They want a path to grow themselves. They want, obviously we want to earn, but people wanna be engaged, you know? Andrew Warden (22:47): Anybody. Like, I want to do, I wanna try this, you know? Well, are you sure?

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View from Seed

MARCH 8, 2016

Jesse Derris is the founder and CEO of Derris & Company , a PR, branding, and communications firm based in New York. They might believe that branding is a fluffy idea or a later-stage need, and right now, they need to move faster, launch, learn, grow, and survive. Is that the wrong mentality?

Seed Stage 120

Seed Stage Conversion Startup PR 120

This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

So, the idea that it's a good or bad idea to follow on, or to play in certain stages versus others--honestly, it's a lot of marketing hype and anecdotal stories that really don't play out across the law of large numbers. Some of this thinking is also driven by folks who aren't well connected to the rest of the later stage venture community.

Later Stage 99

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2011

Some have done earlier-stage deals and done well. Others have chased earlier-stage but lack the skills or relationships to do this effectively. Some have moved into later stage investments in an effort to “put logos on their websites.&# These trends have put pressure on traditional VCs.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 15, 2015

Lecture 20: Closing Thoughts and Later-Stage Advice. The side benefit of this was that when engineers got tired of answering customer service calls on a particular tech issue, they would fix the tech issue. Lecture 8: Doing Things That Don’t Scale. How to Get Started. Walker Williams, Founder, Teespring. 2) How do you make money? (3)

Cofounder 100

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

No, but really, but we have like junior PR ex execs within the team, like with a handful of years of experience, like I want to do, I wanna try this, you know? They want a path to grow themselves. They want, obviously we want to earn, but people wanna be engaged, you know? Andrew Warden (22:20): Anybody. And I'm like, why is that a good idea?

SEO 98

SEO Channel Campaign Audience 98

techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

I would assume most businesses are going to claim they should get VC funding in order to help their PR, even if no one at the company actually believes it. Pepperdine Business Press Room – Graziadio School PR [.] [link] Matt Wrench “The businesses, it seems, vastly over-estimate their ability to raise funds. Think Again.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going. So frequently embarrassing failures are masked by spinning PR or fudging numbers to give the illusion of success. Then, forget everything else, VCs included, and just build.

Technical Review 84

Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84

This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 6, 2014

That''s why I''ll probably hang around the Canary board a little longer than I would otherwise--to learn from future later stage investors as the fast growing company, now around 20 people, grows over the next few years into a powerhouse. That doesn''t feel like the perspective you get from a lot of advice givers these days.

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