July, 2012

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

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Smart Bear Live 5: Dan from SyncBloc.com with Mark Suster

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Welcome back to Smart Bear Live, the call-in show with Jason Cohen, sponsored by Software Promotions. In this episode, special guest Mark Suster joins Jason to talk with Dan Bowen from SyncBloc.com. Pin It Listen to this episode if you want to learn what a VC investor thinks about “Internet scale” and how you can usually simplify your idea by charging a fair price for your product.

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A life-changing challenge: Guided by Pascal’s Wager

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

If the Gartner Group issued a Report on Recommended Behavior of Fortune 5000 Corporations with Respect to the Existence of a Power Beyond our Reckoning , surely they’d back up their ecclesiastical recommendation using a 2×2 diagram where the best place to be is up and to the right. Silly, and yet, that’s precisely what genius mathematician/physicist/inventor/everything-else Blaise Pascal did in his pithy argument for the existence of God: Let us weigh the gain and the loss in wa

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What a startup does to you. Or: A celebration of new life

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

What was supposed to happen is that a curious pair of scissors would be offered me, designed for a singular purpose that TSA could never accept, which is to sever the life-line of an infant. Pin It I would then have to make a choice — a choice already pondered — on whether I had the stomach to take that critical action myself, in a modern 1st-world existence where even the most precious and basic of life’s occurrences might be cause for ill-at-ease at the smell of blood or dis

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