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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
JANUARY 4, 2018
The Silicon Valley-oriented technology press outlets don’t cover us because we’re not in San Francisco, even though we’re more successful than most of the startups they cover.
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
NOVEMBER 29, 2014
users; there aren’t 13B humans) or run out of marketing channels for acquisition (GoDaddy’s customer growth rate is 13%/yr since 2009 ; at that rate it will take 18 years for them to 10x, assuming market size and conditions would even allow them to sustain that). At the high end, you hit market size limits (Facebook has 1.3B
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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
MAY 3, 2010
If I had enough hubris to run around christening years, I would declare 2009 The Year of "Authentic." In fact all these words and phrases should theoretically carry meaning, but theory is for people who don't need to sell $2,600 more software by next Friday so they can make rent. We get it!
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
FEBRUARY 26, 2010
For more details, including the application process and a great 3-minute video which includes interviews from the 2009 companies, see the CapitalFactory home page. Even if you're not looking to raise money, it's a great experience and personal networking event. Last year the keynote speaker was Mike Maples.
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
SEPTEMBER 8, 2010
Oct 13, 2009 at 10:36am. Yes, I know you're a master of the web, that you've visited every website written in English, that you've been going to SXSW for ten years, that you were one of the first bloggers, you used Foursquare before it was. I Welcome New Users on Tuesdays – Prefinery Blog.
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
FEBRUARY 8, 2010
it was edited to "10 Secrets to More Magnetic Copy," but that's OK, they were on a "magnetic copy" series binge at the time, and it made the "Best of Copyblogger 2009" list. Well, that was my title. What was the trick to writing about writing in a fresh way? The format was self-referential, e.g. using repetition when describing repetition.
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
OCTOBER 23, 2012
After I sold Smart Bear, that division has increased revenue and profit every year, for five years, even through the 2008/2009 economic disaster. But really, are all those acquirers so stupid? Surely not. And the same thing happened after we sold IT WatchDogs in 2005.
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