A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

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How cold calling (properly) works better than AdWords

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Robert has been working in software since 2005. SEO is extremely powerful, but it takes time. He is a Ph.D. dropout who spent time working for Google. Someday he’d like to work for himself. When I started marketing my first webapp almost two years ago, I started the way I imagine most people do: online.

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The rise of the “successful” unsustainable company

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

And the same thing happened after we sold IT WatchDogs in 2005. After I sold Smart Bear, that division has increased revenue and profit every year, for five years, even through the 2008/2009 economic disaster. The crap of it is, those VC’s who continue to invest in Nguyen are acting rationally.

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