A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

It’s often said that you shouldn’t talk about price during customer development interviews. Marketing and sales spend is nil, so there has to be a reason it spreads by word of mouth, ideally virally as a natural result of using the product itself. $10/mo Even bootstrapped businesses can make this work (e.g.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

And Apple used the capacitive touch screen to develop a new paradigm for computing. O’Reilly unwittingly illustrates this point by telling the story of Sunil Paul, a friend and a successful serial entrepreneur who filed a patent on the core elements of GPS-enabled ride-hailing in 2000. Amazon saw that the internet would change retail.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

The big enterprise software companies almost all bootstrapped their way to profitability before they got their first external investors (typically via an IPO). It is equally true for the brilliant developer who has to migrate to becoming a leader of managers. Mark Suster writes very well about this trade-off/dilemma.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

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