This document provides tips for early stage startup marketing and getting traction. It emphasizes the importance of customer development - intimately understanding customer problems and needs through surveys, interviews, and testing assumptions with real people. An example is given of a startup that delivered weekly food packages and collected feedback to learn, build expertise in their domain, and gain their first paying customers without wasting resources on premature product development. Tips are also given for low-budget lead generation techniques like landing pages, social media promotions, and content marketing through blogs and articles relevant to the target customer. The key is to be efficient with time and focus on crucial activities like testing assumptions rather than non-essential tasks.