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Marketing for Startups Masterclass

2 Weeks

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Cohort-based Course

Master the art of customer-obsessed marketing in just two weeks, gaining the power to charge premium prices without losing customers

Course overview

Transform Your Business Through Customer Obsession

"I was lost and now I'm found." - Diana Chávez Acosta, former student.


Here's a hard truth: most startups fail because they don't understand their customers. Over two weeks, we'll show you how to avoid this fate by building a customer-obsessed marketing plan that gives you true pricing power - the ability to charge premium prices without losing customers.


As Warren Buffett, the world's most successful investor, explains: "The single most important decision in evaluating a business is pricing power. If you've got the power to raise prices without losing business to a competitor, you've got a very good business."


Week 1: Diagnosis & Strategy


First, we'll teach you how to diagnose your market:


Market Orientation: Learn why "you are not the customer" and how to become truly customer-obsessed.


Market Research: Master professional techniques to understand your market.


Segmentation: Cut your market into manageable, profitable chunks.


Then we'll help you develop your strategy:


Targeting: Make the most important choice - where to play and, more importantly, where not to play.


Positioning: Learn how to stand out in a crowded market with good positioning.


Objectives: Set SMART goals using your bespoke purchase funnel.


Week 2: Tactical Excellence


We'll show you how to execute across all four tactical levers:


Product: Use Jobs-to-be-Done and Net Promoter Score to build what customers want.


Price: Master the three-part pricing discipline that drives profit.


Promotion: Understand how to blend long-term brand building with short-term sales activation for maximum impact.


Place: Choose the right distribution channels based on your core competencies.


What You'll Learn


By the end of two weeks, you'll understand how to research, write and execute a customer-obsessed marketing plan.


You'll also learn how to avoid the biggest mistake most startups make - believing they can intuit what customers want.


Instead, you'll gain the tools, frameworks and confidence to put the customer at the heart of every marketing decision you make.


Your masterclass closes with examples of best-in-class technology and an extended Q&A session with your instructors, Dino and Lee.

Who is this course for

01

Founders who want to build a company that can charge premium prices without losing customers to competitors or drowning in discounts

02

Founders-in-waiting who want to launch with a clear marketing strategy from day one, avoiding the costly trap of intuition-based decisions

03

Startup marketers who want to move beyond tactics to become strategic leaders who can shape their company's growth and profitability

What you’ll get out of this course

Master the MORTN scale to diagnose your blind spots and build a truly customer-obsessed company culture


Explore how AI-generated data is disrupting market research and whether you can rely on it for marketing strategy


Use the Meaningful/Actionable Grid to identify profitable segments that others miss and focus your resources where they matter most


Develop detailed segment portraits that bring your target customers to life and guide every business decision


Craft a powerful positioning statement that makes your brand stand out and gives customers a clear reason to choose you

Set SMART objectives that align your team and create real accountability for marketing success

Apply Jobs to be Done thinking to develop products your customers actually need, not just features they might want

Use the Van Westendorp method to confidently set prices that capture maximum value from each segment

Transform your founder's story into a compelling narrative that resonates with customers and investors alike

Design a distribution strategy that leverages your core strengths and creates a sustainable competitive advantage

This course includes

4 interactive live sessions

Lifetime access to course materials

34 in-depth lessons

Direct access to instructor

5 projects to apply learnings

Guided feedback & reflection

Private community of peers

Course certificate upon completion

Maven Satisfaction Guarantee

This course is backed by Maven’s guarantee. You can receive a full refund within 14 days after the course ends, provided you meet the completion criteria in our refund policy.

Course syllabus

Week 1

Feb 17—Feb 23

    Start here: Welcome to Maven

    3 items

    Feb

    17

    Market Diagnosis

    Mon 2/175:00 PM—6:30 PM (UTC)

    Customer obsession

    4 items • Free preview

    Market research

    3 items • Free preview

    Segmentation

    3 items

    Feb

    19

    Marketing Strategy

    Wed 2/195:00 PM—6:30 PM (UTC)

    Targeting

    3 items • Free preview

    Positioning

    3 items • Free preview

    Objectives

    4 items • Free preview

Week 2

Feb 24—Feb 27

    Feb

    24

    Tactics (Part 1)

    Mon 2/245:00 PM—6:30 PM (UTC)

    Product

    4 items • Free preview

    Price

    4 items • Free preview

    Promotion

    4 items • Free preview

    Feb

    26

    Tactics (Part 2)

    Wed 2/265:00 PM—6:30 PM (UTC)

    Place

    4 items • Free preview

Testimonials from our students

        "One of the most educational and informative parts of our startup journey."
Matthew Addai

Matthew Addai

Co-Founder, Cashblack
        “A must for any entrepreneur serious about growing their startup."
Mali McCalla

Mali McCalla

Founder, Korda
        "Made for founders like me without a marketing background who need to understand and apply important marketing concepts"
Gameli Ladzepko

Gameli Ladzepko

Founder, Flossy
        "I was lost and now I'm found."
Diana Elizabeth Chávez Acosta

Diana Elizabeth Chávez Acosta

        Lee and Dino are great teachers and provide great real world examples which bring the course to life! They also apply each lesson topic to your business which is so helpful. It was awesome learning with other founders.
Imisi Adefala

Imisi Adefala

Founder, Reel Shoot

Meet your instructor

Dino Myers-Lamptey

Dino Myers-Lamptey

Dino Myers-Lamptey is the founder of The Barber Shop, a strategy-led creative company solving big business challenges through data, distribution and disruptive ideas. He works with purpose-driven brands like Sky, Triumph and Parkinson’s UK. A leader in conscious advertising, Dino sits on multiple industry boards and was named a Top 10 Media Planner by Campaign for six years running. He’s also a founding investor in Lee Henshaw’s company, Into-it.









Lee Henshaw

Lee Henshaw

Lee Henshaw is a seasoned entrepreneur with 25 years of experience in entertainment, technology and media. He’s launched, grown and sold two online marketing businesses and is now the founder of Into-it, a music tech company transforming banner ads into personalised music notifications. As a writer, he wrote the novel Queer Fish in God's Waiting Room and an Oasis biography, and covered music and technology for The Guardian, The Observer, The Independent and more.










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