Rand Fishkin has a good post in response to my marketing posts over the past two days. In it he makes this assertion:
For the first few years that I was in the "web world," 1997-2001, there was a dangerous and obvious bias in startups toward sales and marketing - and branding in particular. But, in the past few years, that pendulum has swung to the equally dangerous paradigm that product is everything.
And then he shows this great graphic:
To read the full, original article click on this link: A VC: Marketing and The Bubble
Author: Fred Wilson