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Your Target Market Isn’t a Demographic — It’s a Decision You Keep Getting Wrong After PMF

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Alessandro Marianantoni
Wednesday, 08 July 2026 / Published in Founder Resources, Startup Strategy
Featured cover for the M Accelerator article 'Your Target Market Isn't a Demographic — It's a Decision You Keep Getting Wrong After PMF' — Understanding the Target Market: Definition, Purpose, Examples, Market Segments.
A target market is the specific group of customers a business chooses to serve — defined not by broad demographics but by shared needs, buying behavior, and willingness to pay. Its purpose is to concentrate limited resources on the people most likely to buy, stay, and refer. That is the whole point of Understanding the
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How Private Equity Firms Are Approaching Investments in Startups (And What It Means If You’re Post-PMF)

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Alessandro Marianantoni
Tuesday, 07 July 2026 / Published in Founder Resources, Startup Strategy
Featured cover for the M Accelerator article 'How Private Equity Firms Are Approaching Investments in Startups (And What It Means If You're Post-PMF)' — How Private Equity Firms Are Approaching Investments in Startups.
You’re at $1.5M ARR. Growth is steady, margins are almost where you want them, and last week a firm you’ve never heard of sent a cold email that didn’t sound like a VC. How Private Equity Firms Are Approaching Investments in Startups is shifting: PE firms are moving earlier into the startup lifecycle, targeting post-PMF
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Accelerator Terms in 2026: What 33 Top Programs Actually Take, and What They Hide

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Alessandro Marianantoni
Monday, 06 July 2026 / Published in News
Featured cover for the M Accelerator article 'What 33 Accelerators Actually Take'.
You have two accelerator offers in your inbox and a spreadsheet full of numbers pulled from blog posts. One post says Techstars takes 6 to 9 percent for $120k. Another says Neo invests $600k on a $10M floor. A third lists IndieBio’s biotech deal. Here is the problem: all three of those numbers are wrong

The Liquid Death Marketing Strategy, Deconstructed: What Post-PMF Founders Can Actually Steal

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Alessandro Marianantoni
Monday, 06 July 2026 / Published in Founder Resources, Startup Strategy
Featured cover for the M Accelerator article 'The Liquid Death Marketing Strategy, Deconstructed: What Post-PMF Founders Can Actually Steal' — liquid death marketing strategy.
The Liquid Death marketing strategy is category disruption through identity — it sells canned water not as a product but as a rebellious lifestyle signal, using absurdist branding, product-as-media packaging, and community loyalty to compete against energy drinks and beer rather than other water brands. In plainer terms: they made water dangerous, funny, and worth
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