Peter Drucker correctly concluded that business is entirely innovation and marketing, and yet innovative entrepreneurs don't know marketing. You can tell by the ever-growing Silicon Valley dead pool. The
Start-up CEO's Marketing Manual
is their guide to marketing strategy. Guy Smith, the founder and principal strategist at Silicon Strategies Marketing, wrote the Start-up CEO's Marketing Manual to give founders and start-up CEOs a firm understanding of marketing strategy with which to guide their companies. Smith's 20 years in high tech marketing in Silicon Valley has given him both razor-sharp insights and a comically blunt way of guiding entrepreneurial thinking. The
takes you, the start-up founder, through the structured rigors of developing your corporate go-to-market strategy. The
lays out the fundamentals of market definition, segmentation, buyer profiling, whole product definitions, positioning, branding and messaging. This rapid-fire boot-camp ensures that you will guide your teams and your marketing employees away from the common cliffs of epic failure.