Is the trend of falling seed rounds confined to Austin or does it extend to other US startup hubs? A report by Compass (earlier Startup Genome) last year showed Boston and Bangalore were among the most funded hubs, but Boston saw a fall in early stage deals while it was the reverse in Bangalore... https://www.techinasia.com/bangalore-worlds-startup-ecosyste...
Having a marketing department to get the word out is very different from running expensive marketing campaigns through digital marketing platforms. The sense of the heading is clear enough - that building a good product and telling a cool story about it does more for your marketing than many paid campaigns.
Duolingo primarily uses a text interface, so knowing the script is a key part of their methods. Japanese and Chinese scripts are among the hardest. So we'll probably see those added on late. Hebrew is a recent addition, and Hindi is on the anvil.