Specifics of Marketing Activities for the Development of a Startup

Abstract

The problems of promotion in international sales markets are especially acute for companies in high-tech industries, in particular for high-tech startups. The need for reasonable development and use of international marketing strategies by high-tech startups at the stage of growth and scaling of their activities is grounded upon: the difficulty of conveying the value of the offer to the end consumer; accelerated development of scientific and scientific-technological progress, which leads to the emergence of new technologies and innovative products; constant intensification of competition in world markets; gaps in the socioeconomic development of individual countries. The aim of the study is to determine the specific features of international marketing activities for the development of a high-tech startup. The article examines the theoretical aspects of international marketing; the article considers approaches to the definition of the essence of the concept of «international marketing», features of the modern market of high-tech products, the essence of a startup, in particular a high-tech one, the startup life cycle. It is substantiated that the directions of marketing activities vary depending on the stages of the startup life cycle. The main trends within which startup marketing will develop, and the approaches and models on which the marketing strategy of a startup can be based are determined.