A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

APRIL 11, 2017

I started Smart Bear in a recession (2002) and it went great. I started WP Engine in a boom (2010) and it went great. Whether you’re bootstrapping like I did with Smart Bear or raising tens of millions of dollars as we did at WP Engine, this is the right question. The answer is always yes.

Bootstrapping 156

Bootstrapping Engineer Sales Cost 156

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

I closed down my first business last November and I am bootstrapping the second one currently. We changed our model to B2B and adopted Agile around 2002. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Cash is tight. I joined a financial services tech startup in 1999.

Lean 60

Lean San Francisco Continuous Deployment Software Review 60

Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

MAY 16, 2010

I’m still a.NET dev by day but I’m bootstrapping a startup on Rails in my free time. and I have been a.Net consultant since then at Readify. I started on ASP.NET MVC but quickly realized both financially and technically, the platform wasn’t going to be a good decision moving forward. Its really easy.

Ruby 32

Ruby Developer Product Caching 32

Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

MAY 16, 2010

I’m still a.NET dev by day but I’m bootstrapping a startup on Rails in my free time. and I have been a.Net consultant since then at Readify. I started on ASP.NET MVC but quickly realized both financially and technically, the platform wasn’t going to be a good decision moving forward. Its really easy.

Ruby 28

Ruby Developer Product Caching 28

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 6, 2010

A little startup that with less than 10 people and no VC funding was able to bootstrap its own ad server and 15 million daily ad impressions. Omer : I have been online since 2002. Afterdownload : We’ve laucnhed in Feb 2010. I found a hidden gem in Israel. Below is the transcript of our exclusive interview.

Networking 111

Networking PPC Advertising 111

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 6, 2010

A little startup that with less than 10 people and no VC funding was able to bootstrap its own ad server and 15 million daily ad impressions. Omer : I have been online since 2002. Afterdownload : We’ve laucnhed in Feb 2010. I found a hidden gem in Israel. Below is the transcript of our exclusive interview.

Networking 111

Networking PPC Advertising 111

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 6, 2010

A little startups that with less than 10 people and no VC funding was able to bootstrap its own ad server and 15 million daily ad impressions. Omer : I have been online since 2002. Afterdownload : We’ve laucnhed in Feb 2010. I found a hidden gem in Israel. Below is the transcript of our exclusive interview.

Networking 111

Networking PPC Advertising 111