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Intense Asymmetry and Self-Flagellation

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Erica Douglass bootstrapped her company and sold it for a million dollars while her friends were switching majors for the third time or dicking around at some entry-level job. To see why, let’s wind the clock back to 2002 when Erica started her hosting company, Simpli. And let’s suppose I started WP Engine at the same time.

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The Future of Startups 2013-2017

Scalable Startup

It’s sort of like a supercharged version of Excel that lets you suck in data, you can suck in all your Facebook advertising campaigns, you can suck in all your Salesforce.com data, and you can run — you can actually, yourself, as a small business person, actually analyze and find friends and data. The GitHub guys did an amazing job.