A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

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WP Engine passes $100M in revenue and secures $250M investment from Silver Lake

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Every day, 5% of the entire online world visits a customer running on the WP Engine Digital Experience Platform. And everyone else at WP Engine would tell you the same thing. So to everyone at WP Engine, let me repeat the message from one year ago: Look what we did ! Period, full-stop.

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The wrong question: Is now the right time to start a company?

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

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. When the economy rushes back, you ride the wave.

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Rise and fall: Three Lessons for Entrepreneurs

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

My father was a good High School student and was accepted for admission at the Brooklyn Polytechnic University , where he studied electrical engineering and paid his way by going ROTC (i.e., He even went back to school at night for four years and obtained an MBA-equivalent in electrical engineering. © 2010 Scott Edward Walker.

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It’s a torturous chaos until it isn’t

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

I mean, just look at their growth ( published on SEOMoz ): Was it always so powerful a growth engine? DropBox is one. Hubspot is another. Was it always so clear that this was a company with a bright future?

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