Founder-Led Marketing: 5 Rules for Demand Nobody Searches For

Founder-led marketing path: podcast, LinkedIn, free tools and events stepping stones leading to a door marked when the need hits, beneath an empty search bar

Founder-led marketing is a strategy in which the founder becomes the voice that educates a market before it starts buying. Christian Espinosa used it to build Blue Goat Cyber, which sells medical device cybersecurity that most founders ignore until the FDA rejects their submission. He gives away more than 20 free tools, tests every channel against attributable revenue, and plans on three to five years to build a B2B pipeline.