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.

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Bootstrapping Engineer Sales Cost 156

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 20, 2012

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.

San Jose 233

San Jose Bootstrapping Hosting Engineer 233

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

Through case studies, exercises, and discussions, Eric Ries will guide entrepreneurs of all stripes through the key areas that determine success for startups: product, engineering, QA, marketing, and business strategy. I closed down my first business last November and I am bootstrapping the second one currently. Cash is tight.

Lean 60

Lean San Francisco Continuous Deployment Software Review 60

Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

It was very educational for a lot of us to go through the dot-com crash, because you remember, in 2002, like there were a number of universal truths asserted in 2002; the Internet didn’t matter, consumer Internet business was dead. The GitHub guys did an amazing job. So what they did was incredibly impressive.

Software Review 22

Software Review Startup Venture Capital Stock 22