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Your DTC Brand Doesn’t Need a Marketing Strategy. It Needs a Distribution Bet.
03
Jul
Your DTC Brand Doesn’t Need a Marketing Strategy. It Needs a Distribution Bet.
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Manav Gupta
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Most "marketing strategies" for consumer brands are decks nobody executes....
03
Jul
Naming Your Startup: The Filters That Matter and the Ones That Don’t
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Manav Gupta
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Most founders agonize over the wrong thing when naming a company. Here's a...
03
Jul
Market Sizing for a Pitch Deck: The TAM Slide Investors Actually Read
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Manav Gupta
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Most TAM/SAM/SOM slides are theater — a big number borrowed from a report...
02
Jul
You Don’t Need a CMO. You Need a Strategy That Fits on One Page.
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Manav Gupta
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Most solo founders skip strategy because they think it requires a hire. It...
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