A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

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Not disruptive, and proud of it

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

They were the disruptors, but they didn't profit from the disruption. Disruptive technology often comes from research groups commissioned to produce innovative ideas but unable to capitalize on them.

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New moderators and flair on Answers OnStartups

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Jarie Bolander of The Daily MBA and author of Frustration-Free Technical Management. 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.

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“She doesn’t deserve to be alive”

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Or James Altucher , who has lunches with people like Stephen Dubner (Freakonomics), writes like Penelope Trunk , appears on CNBC to talk finance, and manages to be funny and poignant and inspirational even while writing daily. Of course they all do deserve to be alive, and deserve their success. It’s a milestone by convention only.

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The public invisibility of running mid-stage successful companies

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

My daily life consists of (a) setting the strategy and rationale of the Engineering & Innovation department, based on a mixture of vision, data, and the needs of the rest of the company, (b) participate in doing the same for the whole company, (c) hire, (d) manage the managers whose teams execute the real work.

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The fundamental lesson of the forces governing scaling startups

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

So, no project can have fewer than, say, three people dedicated to it, plus people management and possibly some form of Product or Project Management. Managing 10,000 virtual servers in the Cloud Era sounds easy. Recruiting. Your emails are probably misinterpreted 40% of the time, by the way.) Technology & Infrastructure.