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Startup positioning and the offer

Most marketing problems start with the offer: what you sell, who it is for, and why anyone would switch. The offer, the message, and trust before a launch.

10 articles

Startup marketing budget and metrics

How much a startup should spend on marketing at each stage, and how to tell it is buying growth: CAC, LTV to CAC, retention, and which numbers to track.

13 articles

Hiring and keeping startup marketers

When to make your first marketing hire, who to look for, how to pay them, and why marketing leaders leave at eighteen months.

10 articles

Ad platform news and updates

What is changing in the ad platforms, caught early: what Meta changed, who it hits, and what to check in the account before it costs you.

4 articles

Tell me what stopped working

I help seed and Series A founders run their marketing, week by week.