A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
NOVEMBER 29, 2014
Will you ever get 2000? I hope so, but most companies that do get 100 never get 2000. ” Going from 1000 to 2000 in six months is more like it.). This is why investors (and founders) wishing to build enormous companies are so fixated on hyper-growth (not just growth).
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
JANUARY 10, 2012
Almost no startup founder values her time properly. 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.”
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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
FEBRUARY 19, 2010
Jay Neely of Social Strategist and co-founder of EasyImpress. 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. Tim of StackOverthrow. Join the fun.
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
APRIL 15, 2014
Some come from lessons you can only learn in the field with 2000+ servers and 100,000+ installations of an application. And, if you grant my indulgent inclusion in that pantheon, I did the same as WP Engine took off, with a noticeable decrease in early 2012 and relatively little in the past twelve months. Some of it is algorithmic.
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
OCTOBER 4, 2017
Idealistic founders believe they will break the mold when they scale, and not turn into a “typical big company.” Or it’s fatal because that was a co-founder. But also things like founders splitting up, not getting enough traction to self-fund or to secure the next round of financing, having to go back to a day job, and so on.
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
JULY 7, 2016
When investors interrogate founders, these interrogatives arise, but with a twist: Adding the word “why” in front of each. But also you de-risk by aligning the solution to the founder’s existing abilities, for example in using whatever language/framework the founders are already adept in. When → Why now?
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
MAY 22, 2012
Maybe they’re stingy because they’re still being run by a parsimonious small-business founder (like me!) 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. Worst of both worlds. Why is it like this?
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