Do you wonder why Apple, Dropbox and Twitter are so successful? It is not because they were able to design an appealing logo and technically perfect product or service, but because they were and are still capable of forming unique relationships with their customers. These companies are able to brand for today's circumstances. They understand new rules, how to brand and go beyond products and logos. The magic is in making passionate customers who want to be in a relationship with your brand. Good branding emanates from great stories that customers will not only love but be prepared to co-create and share with their friends. Obviously, the branding game has changed. Thus, the Startup Branding Funnel (SBFunnel) handbook is designed for all those (startup founders, managers, investors, marketers, designers, consultants, and others) who are prepared to take the challenge and become creators of dynamic and successful brands!SBFunnel gives you a powerful and tested tool for understanding, developing, implementing and maintaining strong brands that deliver a unique customer experience to hack your growth. SBFunnel is about the questions you must ask and answer to succeed in developing great brands, including some examples of the proven approaches of startups that have successfully answered those questions.SBFunnel explains the main secret of dynamic branding: although their perspectives are different, both the entrepreneur and the customers are looking at the same brand. To understand in which direction to evolve, entrepreneurs should follow the proposed four phases of the process (investigate, develop, implement, validate and evaluate), which represent one SBFunnel loop. With help of the main building blocks, entrepreneurs should intensively investigate the market situation, develop an appropriate story and upgrade it with visual elements, spread it first within the company and later communicate and deliver it to customers. The whole process has to be validated, evaluated, and so co-created by potential and real customers. Because branding is a dynamic process, entrepreneurs can ride through several loops.Within this book, you will learn:How to understand brands from both customers' and entrepreneurs' perspectives in order to form unique relationships.How to develop and communicate unique brand stories to engage your customers.How to find product-market fit and upgrade it to brand-market fit.How to use SBFunnel tool to systematically answer questions among proposed SBFunnel building blocks.How successful book co-creators (like BellaBeat and GoOverseas) and other startups (like Buffer and Zappos) succeeded in answering those questions to build powerful brands. The book was written by a marketing and an entrepreneurship professor, Maja and Mitja Ruzzier, and co-created by more than 40 startups (of these, 7 were successfully funded on Kickstarter and Indiegogo, 11 have received extensive VC funding, and 8 were accepted and went through the best accelerator programs) and other stakeholders (VCs, consultants, educators, marketers, students), geographically spread across 4 different continents. Join us in our journey along the SBFunnel and follow our rules of dynamic branding: Go beyond product and logo. Engage your customers. Create your story. Become a successful brand.