A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

APRIL 12, 2010

That phrase died during the tech-bubble along with "portal" and "think outside the box," yet the concept has returned. It's hard to think of disruptive technologies or products that didn't take many millions of dollars to implement. Most technology we now consider "disruptive" wasn't conceived that way. Don't follow along.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

He wrote it in 2000, and as far as I know has never updated it. This is still an essential practice, especially on the web. There was a time when "web content" was considered "not code" and therefore not routinely source controlled. I love Joels approach to usability, and I still recommend his free online book on UI design.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Lyft requires you to be at least 23 years old and have your own four-door car (2000 or newer) in good working condition. Gigs vary in categories like advertising, video and animation, graphics and design, programming and tech, music and audio, gifts, fun and bizarre, online marketing or writing and translation.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Posted on September 14, 2009 by steveblank Over the last 30 years Wall Street’s appetite for technology stocks have changed radically – swinging between unbridled enthusiasm to believing they’re all toxic. The IPO Bubble – August 1995 – March 2000 In August 1995 Netscape went public, and the world of start ups turned upside down.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. Social Networking in Web 1.0.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Web Startup Lessons Advice from a CTO and Entrepreneur Home About Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO There are not many to be found. He or she might call himself a “consulting CTO,&# “freelance CTO,&# “on-demand CTO,&# “CTO on call,&# “CTO for hire,&# or just a “technology strategy advisor.&#

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 22, 2012

By day he works on web and social media for HP. I’m a huge fan of William and his writing as you can see from my review of his book Avogadro Corp. There seem to be two schools of thought on how to predict the future of information technology: looking at software or looking at hardware. Streaming video had finally made it.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I spoke about how Amazon Web Services deserves far more credit for the last 5 years of innovation than it gets credit for and how I believe they spawned the micro-VC category. I know that most people who are close to them tend to deny their existence, as we saw in the great housing bubble of 2002-2007 and the dot com bubble of 1997-2000.

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. Silicon Valley is still emerging from the tech bubble and massive downturn of late 2000-2002. The market size for online advertising, e-commerce, and web premium services are 1/10th to 1/3rd the size they are today. ″ is popularized by Tim O’Reilly (the first Web 2.0

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

Tech: Blogs. Technology Live. Talking Tech. Talking Your Tech. Sponsored Links Americans with heaps of stuff, skills and time are connecting online with tech-savvy and early adopters eager to share and rent homes, cars, tools and services in exchange for deep savings. Skip to Main Content. Game Hunters.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 16, 2018

All of our cards are designed by independent U.S.-based Despite practicing law and building tech startups, there was a big part of me that was unsatisfied in each of those roles. At that time, in the year 2000 there were no spam filters so it was pretty easy to contact other translation companies to setup cooperation.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 13, 2022

The Profit First Professional organization is designed to support accountants, bookkeepers, and other financial professionals to substantially differentiate themselves in the market. 15:55] A big concept in your book you talk about is the 4 D’s: Doing, Deciding, Delegating, and Designing, and you’ve added a 5th now: Downtime.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2013

After a while, people were able to think about automobiles in a new way, which finally paved the way for massive improvements in design and manufacturing. Many merchants are finding that fan pages eliminate the need for web sites, and that clicking like is very much a replacement for filling out a form to get on a mailing list.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Ian McAllister of Amazon offers greater detail on the process: The target audience for the press release is the new/updated product’s customers, which can be retail customers or internal users of a tool or technology. For web services, we write use cases, including code snippets, which describe ways you can imagine people using the product.

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www.joelonsoftware.com

MARCH 24, 2010

Joel on Software Fog Creek Compensation by Joel Spolsky Wednesday, August 30, 2000 At Fog Creek Software, the way we make sure that people are paid fairly and rewarded for excellent work is based on a professional ladder. Wanted: High Frequency Performance Operations Specialist at Two Sigma Investments (New York, New York United States).

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MAY 4, 2011

In growing industries, new people become beginners every day, especially online as more people to turn the web as a source of training resources. We didn’t assume our students had any existing tech knowledge and just wanted to watch our videos and copy what we did and then get a result.

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dashes.com

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

Its great that were in such a fertile phase for the tech industry that lots of people have new ideas, and Im very flattered that people value my input or ideas enough to want to share their projects with me. I have to pay a lawyer to review a document without having any idea why Im making that investment. But signing an NDA ?

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2013

That is a 65% increase in the number of IPOs over 2012, and the highest proceeds raised since the year 2000. I can remember when creating a web site for eCommerce could easily require a million dollar investment. Now you can create a web site for almost nothing - and be on your way with your latest invention or personal services.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 9, 2017

They’re pulling in things like critical reviews so if a business is on [00:03:32] or Eater or some of these other — depending on your industry you know maybe it’s something like Superlawyers if you’re a lawyer. John: What do you think about the trend to blend organic and paid. David: Sure. ” That sounds terrible.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# You couldn’t pick up a magazine in the 96-99 timeframe without seeing AOL Keywords advertised everywhere. Social Networking in Web 1.0: The Present Era.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 27, 2019

Start with specific goals and make sure your web analytics software is tracking those goals. Design a great site. Now, would you rather buy running shoes that are suitable for all runners, or ones specifically designed for your gender, age group, weight, and type of use? Design a great site. Drive relevant traffic.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2015

Last year was the most active year for IPOs in the United States since 2000. I can remember when creating a web site for eCommerce could easily require a million dollar investment. Now you can create a web site for almost nothing - and be on your way with your latest invention or personal services. million businesses in 2014.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 11, 2009

I’ve been a web developer for 10 years and I cringe when I see that I need a module that’s not included…there goes two hours of my day searching, configuring and installing dependencies. Im a serial web entrepreneur here to share what Ive learned in my 11 years as a self-funded startup founder. at 11:07 am [.]

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! This episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is brought to you by the DeskTeam360 Desk team 360 is the #1, flat-rate, digital marketing integration team, that helps small businesses and marketing agencies with graphic, web design, and on-page marketing services.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

I have the knowledge in tech to implement it. If you’re looking for technical talent – go to the dev meetups. what are the most crucial steps to be taken by a new tech startup when outsourcing major part of the tech to IT firms or outsourcing “product development” eg new social media website project?

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 1, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Designers: 9 Mistakes To Avoid For Successful Pitches! Stunning Graphic Design Styles: 1950 to 2000 Inspired Designs – [link]. – [link].

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 24, 2012

Needless to say that before you start and throughout the entire process, you should make sure that technological requirements are met. Due to keeping things generic, some stock images may look false and popular subjects become overused. This is where graphic designers can combine creative copyrighting with clean and striking images.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. I get approached about clean tech or biotech periodically – I don’t focus on these. In ad tech there’s Seth Levine at Foundry Group and both Dana Settle & Ian Sigelow at Greycroft. Press the flesh.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 14, 2012

So start with specific goals and make sure your web analytics software is tracking those goals. Make your design good. Now, would you rather buy running shoes that are suitable for all or the one that is specifically designed for your gender, age group, weight and type of use? How to design user flow. Reduce friction.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Technology. This service is temporary unavailable due to system maintenance. Loading… Tech. Personal Technology. TECHNOLOGY. more in Tech. WSJ Classroom. Ran gold Resources Ltd. View All Search Results » |. The Wall Street Journal. Welcome, Logout. Customer Center. My Journal. Edition Home.

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www.kalzumeus.com

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

JSON is designed to get into Rails quite easily indeed — just POST it at the server, wham, YAML.load(attacker_data) happened. (The An attacker was able to create a malicious gem, cause the Rubygems web application to evaluate the metadata contained in it, and thereby compromise the Rubygems server infrastructure.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 7, 2014

But if people weren’t shopping on mobile at all, there would be no web traffic from smartphones to commerce sites. In many cases, mobile sales actually do convert, but our current tracking technologies don’t let us see it. Not only that but mobile traffic is now 18 times the size of the entire internet traffic from 2000.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

They had me lay off the entire team of seven designers and then laid me off. The realization that I could run a company and I could do it well was also the attraction, motivation, and inspiration for founding Artitudes Design. Thanks to Andrea Heuston, Artitudes Design ! #2- He didn’t believe that women should be in business.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 13, 2017

Years ago, before Amazon’s Web Services (AWS) and Kindle became as popular as they are today, Amazon’s CEO, Jeff Bezos, offered this insight: Go back in time when we started working on Kindle almost seven years ago. Sometimes called “Gen Y”, millennials are the much sought after generation born between 1980 and 2000.

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Software By Rob

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

With the goal of increasing the conversion rate I read piles of books on internet marketing , web analytics , and copywriting. Marketing is Design. Note: by “Design&# I mean technical (application) design. Design is a less constrained environment than coding. In design, trial and error (a.k.a.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

I got out of the university in early 2000 and I never went on to a full-time job, so it’s always been an online business for me. I have a few contractors to do the technical side of my work and a customer support person, but that’s it. I didn’t have a contractor doing technical things for me. I changed the design a few times.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 25, 2016

Technically speaking , an icon is a person or thing “regarded as a representative symbol of something” Web designers use them in navigations (e.g. Icons are fast to recognize at a glance (if well designed) — particularly true for standard icons that people have seen and used before. ” (via NN/g).

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