On behalf of Rockfish Brand Ventures, I was invited to give a presentation to the CEO’s and Founders of CincyTech’s portfolio companies on digital marketing. Digital marketing for startups View more presentations from Dave Knox

Last week, quite the debate was started when Fred Wilson from Union Square Ventures wrote a post that shared his thoughts on marketing as it relates to start-ups.  I decided to wait a week to respond because frankly I was kinda fired up about Fred’s disrespect to my profession. You see, apparently Fred has a major issue with the entire

A few weeks ago, I wrote about a great post by Steve Blanks in which he talked of the upcoming “Entrepreneurial Revolution” in the US.  As a follow-up, I wanted to share a short 6 minute talk that I gave in October at the inaugural TEDxCincy.  In the talk, I share a few reasons why I believe Cincinnati has tremendous

It is hard to believe that only 12 weeks ago, The Brandery was just getting started with our inaugural class of companies.   Fast forward to today and we will be graduating 6 amazing start-ups at our first Demo Day on Thursday, November 18th.   We have a sold-out crowd of 150 venture capitalists, investors and entrepreneurs joining us at the LPK

Thanks to the Twitter tip from Jon Steinberg, I came across this great presentation from Rashmi Sinha, CEO / Co-Founder of Slideshare.  In it, she talks about the trials she went through in finding the right mix of business models for SlideShare, ranging from advertising to Freemium.  Great read for any start-up