A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

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The public invisibility of running mid-stage successful companies

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Keith Rabois famously quipped , “I don’t know of a single successful CEO or entrepreneur who blogs regularly.” Some come from lessons you can only learn in the field with 2000+ servers and 100,000+ installations of an application. ” That was five months ago, and people are still talking about it. And agreeing.

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The mid-market briar patch

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

People with $50/mo blogs have many of the same problems as people with $2000/mo blogs but pay us 40x less, which might imply we should focus on the high-end blogger. Sign up for AppSumo 's daily deals specifically for web geeks & entrepreneurs. Keep it coming: What’s your experience selling to a middle market?

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The fundamental lesson of the forces governing scaling startups

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Yet, it’s the job of a Product Manager at that mid-sized company to invent, discover, design, implement, and nurture those products — something that most entrepreneurs will never succeed at. Recruiting. Employee #2 will join a startup for the experience.

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How should a startup founder value her time?

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

The risk is high, so the potential financial rewards must be commensurate with that risk, which means you have to value your time between $1000 and $2000 per hour , not at your $150/hour consultant rate because of platitudes like “my time is worth what the market will bear.” ” What does this mean for your daily life?

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New moderators and flair on Answers OnStartups

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Related posts: Uncommon Interview: Bob Walsh, Digital Entrepreneur Rude Q&A Startup Therapy: Ten questions to ask yourself every month 2000 feature requests: Our foray into Uservoice Uncommon Interview: Balsamiq Studios. Find instructions for all this using the "got flair?" link on your user profile page: I hope to see you there

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“She doesn’t deserve to be alive”

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

So nothing changed, and I blew by 2000, 3000, and still nothing changed, except eventually I made the healthy decision to stop watching the counter so obsessively. It’s why an entrepreneur is often a serial entrepreneur. It’s a milestone by convention only. And still nothing changed. Which proves that was healthy.)

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The rise of the “successful” unsustainable company

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Witness, for example, this terrific Fast Company article on Bill Nguyen , serial entrepreneur who’s seventh startup “Color” famously raised $41m for a new mobile app before it even launched. invested, IPO’ed in 2000 for $32/share — stock price now $2. The launch, by the way, was a failure.

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