Marketing
Silicon Valley marketing communications are, simply put, not the major league. By comparison to Washington, DC and political communications, we are AAA baseball [1]. In fact, to be less kind, if DC communications are the major league, you could argue that consumer marketing is AAA, and we in Silicon Valley
Marketing
Just a quick post to highlight a recent podcast appearance I did on the Exit Five podcast, which is produced by the Exit Five community for B2B marketers, led by veteran marketer Dave Gerhardt. In the episode we touch on the following topics: * My background and career path and my
Marketing
A funny thing can happen with startups. Sometimes, the reasons customers love the product end up not being the same reasons that the founder wants them to love the product. This may sound bad or scary, but it's not. It's actually an opportunity, provided you recognize
Marketing
This is a post to highlight a recent podcast appearance I made on The Growth Hub podcast with Seija Lappalainen and Reeta Westman, who are both based out of Finland, and with whom I had a lot of fun talking. So much fun, in fact, that we ran long and
Marketing
Since there is much talk of AI replacing workers, including writers, I thought I'd give ChatGPT a crack at writing a Kellblog post. Here's what it came up with (and I'll post some thoughts on its work down below): Sure, here's a
Demandgen
Let’s say you’re a CEO. You don’t come from a marketing background. At every quarterly business review (QBR) and board meeting, your marketing head presents a chart like this: What happens next? More than likely, after 10 or 15 minutes of effectively random probes into this minefield
Marketing
In the first part of this two-part series we discussed the importance of timing in ensuring that market research is actionable. The moral was to time the arrival of research (e.g., win/loss reporting, NPS surveys, awareness and marketing funnel studies) with the cadence of your company's
Marketing
Ever heard any of these? * "Yes, we run a quarterly customer satisfaction (CSAT) and NPS survey, but I feel like we don't really take any action based on it." * "Win/loss reporting, well yes, we do it, but I don't think it'
Marketing
Just a quick post to share the slides from the webinar we ran today on the Balderton Founder's Guide to B2B Sales. Thanks to all those who attended and who particpated in the Q&A. I've embedded them below. Here are the slides on Google
Management
I'm writing this post to promote an upcoming webinar entitled How To Emerge From The Downturn Stronger Than You Went In. The webinar will be held on Tuesday, January 24th and is hosted by Balderton Capital, where I work as an EIR. The webinar will start at 3:
Marketing
If you live in the country and see someone out walking a smaller dog, once in a while it will be dressed like this: That's called a coyote vest and it's pet body armor designed to prevent Bruiser from being taken by a coyote and/or
CEO
Working in my capacity at as an EIR at Balderton Capital, I have recently written a new publication, The Balderton Founder's Guide to B2B Sales, with the able support of Balderton Principal Michael Lavner and the entire Balderton Capital team. This guide is effectively a new edition, and