Arielle Jackson

18 statements across 1 episodes · 6 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Aug 18, 2022 by Arielle Jackson · said 2 times in 1 episodes since 2022 · across every show →

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Aug 18, 2022 negative
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Jackson: The New York Times rarely covers seed-stage startups anymore
“No one's at the New York times has ever covered a seed stage startup unless it's like crazy for the last five years.”
Arielle Jackson Aug 18, 2022 ▶ 1:12:12 The art of building legendary brands | Arielle Jackson (Google, Square, First Round Capital)
Aug 18, 2022
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Jackson: A brand purpose statement must double as an About page header
“You can introduce yourself at a conference, like you're the keynote speaker at a conference and I want you to introduce yourself and I want you to go, hi, I'm Lenny. I'm the founder of company X and we exist too, blah, and say it and like have that feel natura…”
Arielle Jackson Aug 18, 2022 ▶ 46:08 The art of building legendary brands | Arielle Jackson (Google, Square, First Round Capital)
Aug 18, 2022 positive
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Jackson: A Bad Name Will Not Hurt a Good Company
“I always say a good name is only going to help you, but a bad name won't hurt a good company.”
Arielle Jackson Aug 18, 2022 ▶ 23:19 The art of building legendary brands | Arielle Jackson (Google, Square, First Round Capital)
Aug 18, 2022
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Jackson: Purpose lasts 10 years while product positioning evolves every 18 months
“It exists on a 10 year or so frame. So everything we're talking about with product positioning, it's pretty malleable. It exists on like an 18 month frame if you're an early stage company, so it can evolve. Whereas your purpose is pretty much going to stay the…”
Arielle Jackson Aug 18, 2022 ▶ 43:47 The art of building legendary brands | Arielle Jackson (Google, Square, First Round Capital)
Aug 18, 2022
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Jackson: Master brands should use descriptive names for new sub-products
“The only difference is if you have a lot of equity in your company name, like I'll, Square is a good example. Like Square had a lot of equity. Google is a perfect example. A lot of equity in the company name. You often don't want to name your products somethin…”
Arielle Jackson Aug 18, 2022 ▶ 27:31 The art of building legendary brands | Arielle Jackson (Google, Square, First Round Capital)
Aug 18, 2022 positive
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Jackson: Define brand purpose by pairing cultural tensions with product strengths
“What I like to do is list all of the cultural tensions that are happening in the world that are relevant to your business first. And so for alt, that would be things like there's an increase in Interest in alternatives. People are nostalgic. People who are now…”
Arielle Jackson Aug 18, 2022 ▶ 49:09 The art of building legendary brands | Arielle Jackson (Google, Square, First Round Capital)
Aug 18, 2022 neutral
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Jackson: Square had roughly 140 employees and no PMs when she joined
“I joined Square. It was like a 140 people. We had no marketing function. We had a couple of marketing people. We had no product managers.”
Arielle Jackson Aug 18, 2022 ▶ 4:50 The art of building legendary brands | Arielle Jackson (Google, Square, First Round Capital)
Aug 18, 2022
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Jackson: Funding announcements alone no longer generate press coverage
“Funding in and of itself is like, not that interesting anymore. There's so many bad companies getting funding. There's so many, there's like so many good companies getting funding too. It's just like more than ever. And the number of reporters and the number o…”
Arielle Jackson Aug 18, 2022 ▶ 1:11:42 The art of building legendary brands | Arielle Jackson (Google, Square, First Round Capital)
Aug 18, 2022
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Jackson: Startups must shortlist three to five names to prevent trademark failure
“Don't come up with one because you might not get it for trademark. And it's really sad when you get really attached to one and then you can't use it. So yeah, three to five top contenders, and then you go through a trademark process, a domain and kind of go fr…”
Arielle Jackson Aug 18, 2022 ▶ 27:09 The art of building legendary brands | Arielle Jackson (Google, Square, First Round Capital)
Aug 18, 2022 neutral
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Jackson: Empty vessel brand names require far more marketing effort
“My take on empty vessel names is they can be really memorable and they can be evocative of the emotion, but you have to do a lot more work marketing work over time to make it mean something.”
Arielle Jackson Aug 18, 2022 ▶ 16:14 The art of building legendary brands | Arielle Jackson (Google, Square, First Round Capital)
Aug 18, 2022
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Jackson: Early-stage startup launches should almost always be pitched as exclusives
“These days for early stage startups, we're almost always running the launch announcement as an exclusive, which means you give the news to a single outlet and they're the only ones who get to write about it.”
Arielle Jackson Aug 18, 2022 ▶ 1:11:12 The art of building legendary brands | Arielle Jackson (Google, Square, First Round Capital)
Aug 18, 2022 positive
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Jackson: Great company names are evocative rather than descriptive
“And I personally tend to like those kinds of names that are suggestive or evocative, where when I tell you what the company does, you're like, oh, that makes sense. But it's not that what the name is tells you exactly what the company does.”
Arielle Jackson Aug 18, 2022 ▶ 13:49 The art of building legendary brands | Arielle Jackson (Google, Square, First Round Capital)
Aug 18, 2022 positive
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Jackson: A well-defined product benefit doubles as the homepage headline and customer word-of-mouth
“I believe that great benefits, if you've defined your benefit really, really well, will actually be the thing that will be the H one on your homepage and will be the thing that you want someone to tell someone else.”
Arielle Jackson Aug 18, 2022 ▶ 58:23 The art of building legendary brands | Arielle Jackson (Google, Square, First Round Capital)
Aug 18, 2022 positive
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Jackson: Founders should use absurd placeholder names to avoid bad attachment
“If you pick something so ridiculous that you would never launch, it's actually helpful because then you can go through a process and find it a name that will do more of your work for you. And you won't be attached to something crappy.”
Arielle Jackson Aug 18, 2022 ▶ 32:38 The art of building legendary brands | Arielle Jackson (Google, Square, First Round Capital)
Aug 18, 2022
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Jackson: Early-stage startups can complete brand strategy in three weeks
“If you're starting from nothing, I think you can do this in like three weeks.”
Arielle Jackson Aug 18, 2022 ▶ 41:55 The art of building legendary brands | Arielle Jackson (Google, Square, First Round Capital)
Aug 18, 2022
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Jackson: Inconsistent descriptions from customers or employees signal a positioning problem
“You know, you have a positioning product problem. If I ask 10 of your customers or 10 of your employees, what the company does or what the product does, and I get multiple answers. And unfortunately that's the case for most Companies.”
Arielle Jackson Aug 18, 2022 ▶ 51:36 The art of building legendary brands | Arielle Jackson (Google, Square, First Round Capital)
Aug 18, 2022 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Jackson: Naming agency A Hundred Monkeys charges $47,000 for a name
“I recently got, couldn't take on an outsider first-round project and referred it to them. It's 47,000 dollars for a name.”
Arielle Jackson Aug 18, 2022 ▶ 33:57 The art of building legendary brands | Arielle Jackson (Google, Square, First Round Capital)
Aug 18, 2022 positive
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Jackson: Product Positioning Must Precede Naming and Marketing
“I really believe that positioning dictates so much of your marketing and should always be the first thing you do.”
Arielle Jackson Aug 18, 2022 ▶ 19:26 The art of building legendary brands | Arielle Jackson (Google, Square, First Round Capital)
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