Raising Capital 101: Proven Marketing Strategies to Successfully Raise Capital for Your Business

Unlocking funding for your business is a journey filled with countless articles and guides on finding investors, crafting the perfect pitch deck, and securing valuable introductions. But what about running a targeted marketing campaign specifically designed to attract and convert investors? Surprisingly, this aspect often remains unexplored, leaving founders in search of effective strategies to […]

Fractal Family Feature: NoiseNet & Event Takeover Campaigns

NoiseNet are an innovative hardware and software startup working in the Smart City space, founded by Stuart Clough and Jonathan South, who aim to reduce the amount of noise pollution affecting modern cities. To those ends, they’ve developed the NoiseNet Smart Noise Monitoring Device – a durable, portable, and discrete directional microphone array backed up […]

Fractal Family Feature: Boolba & Knowing Your Audience

Boolba is the brainchild of local Brisbane electrician and entrepreneur Jock Gemmell. After years of running his own businesses and being on both sides of the hiring process, Jock knew there had to be a better way for tradies to find projects, and for projects to find tradies. So he built Boolba to be just […]

Do Venture Capitalists Not Care About Marketing?

 Venture capitalists want growth, but why do they so often ignore their investments’ marketing strategies? In this episode, Gerard discusses why venture capitalists undervalue marketing for start-ups, highlighting its importance for attracting customers, establishing a brand, driving growth, and ensuring long-term success. He’ll cover all the reasons why VCs should pay more attention to […]

Fractal Family Feature: Ardacious & The Power of Video Advertising

Ardacious is a Brisbane-based software development startup founded by Dr. Ralf Muhlberger specialising in Augmented Reality — specifically in the spaces of education and games. Their flagship product is Ardent Roleplay, a smartphone application that brings popular tabletop roleplaying games Dungeons & Dragons and Call of Cthulhu to life with customisable AR projections. With Ardent […]

How Startups Can Raise Capital

When you first move into the startup world, there’s this dreamy ideal that everyone’s all about the products and services that will change the world, no matter what it takes. But the reality is a little different. After all, there’s only one thing that really makes the world go round: money. Sure, your business could […]

High-Level Startup Marketing Strategy Template

Before you get into the nitty-gritty of building ad copy or tweaking your email templates, you need to determine your startup’s overall marketing strategy. When you go to a funding round and a potential investor asks for your marketing strategy, if they aren’t seeing that you know your target audience and have a solid strategy […]

Marketing A Tech Startup

Tech businesses tend to hog the spotlight in the startup world, with the social media giants’ founding stories becoming the things of myth these days. So the idea of founding the next great app appeals to all of us. But you don’t just go from first-draft code to billion dollar publicly-traded household name overnight, and […]

Fractal’s Quick-Start Guide to Marketing Your Startup

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When you first found your startup, chances are that marketing isn’t at the top of your to-do list. There’s so much else to think about that it often falls by the wayside — pitches, capital raising, legal and tax requirements, product design, budgeting… you get the picture. But marketing is massively important: how else are […]

3 Long Term Marketing Tips for Your eCommerce Startup

Social media marketing has skyrocketed in the past two years, and consumers are becoming more savvy and discerning in what products they’ll buy. So let’s look over some long-term ways to maximise your return on investment when you dive into the eCommerce world. Social Commerce Social media has swiftly become the most important marketing stream […]