December, 2010

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

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Vetting a startup (or two): The systematic birth of @WPEngine

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Let me dispose of any lingering ideas that WPEngine was a great flash of insight , born perfect from conception like a Greek God emerging from the ocean, a once-per-decade occurrence sourced from unsystematic inspiration. Let me also dispel your doubts that you can't produce similar ideas with similar results using a similar process. You can, because there's nothing magical in how I got to this point.

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How David Garland built a community of 100,000 followers in 24 months

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

This is a guest post by David Garland, author of a new book: Smarter, Faster, Cheaper : Non-Boring, Fluff-Free Strategies For Marketing & Promoting Your Business. Some of this advice is new, some sounds obvious in retrospect, but it's always good hearing what works from someone who came from nowhere and it making it happen. Two years ago I started my website The Rise To The Top in October 2008.

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