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The place for early-stage B2B marketers to learn, share, and grow.
A free community and weekly newsletter for B2B marketers who know early-stage from the inside, whether you're at a startup now or have been before. Small teams, tight budgets, founder dynamics, a number you didn't build but have to hit. You're not the only one dealing with it.
60K+ newsletter subscribers · ~50% open rate · Free to join · No vendors, no pitching
The community runs on Discord. New to it? Download the app first; setup takes about a minute.
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I'm Rob Young. I spent years as a senior analyst at IDC watching companies repeat the same GTM mistakes, then more than a decade inside them, including as the first marketing leader at five venture-backed startups, typically pre-seed through Series B.
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Along the way I've advised Microsoft, VMware, Dell, NVIDIA, Citrix, and ServiceNow, and led product marketing at IBM Security. That analyst-plus-operator view is what MHQ is built on.
Everything you need to grow in early-stage marketing:
LEARN: Insights you can actually use.
Weekly insights, practical tools, original research, and the Pipe Dreams podcast, with lessons from marketers who've actually done the job.
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SHARE: You're not doing this alone.
Trade notes with other early-stage marketers facing the same problems, through the MHQ community, live conversations, events, and member experiences.
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GROW: Build what's next.
Hand-picked marketing roles, career insights, relationships, and opportunities to help you get to your next seat.
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MarketingHQ Community
Early-stage marketing is hard to do alone.
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Connect with B2B marketers who've lived early-stage: first-time startup marketers, repeat operators, and leaders who've moved between startups and bigger companies.​
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Apply to join. It's free, and I review every application personally.​​​​
The community runs on Discord. New to it? Download the app first; setup takes about a minute.