A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MAY 31, 2010

It was the little precambrian warm-blooded agile (oh sorry, now we're saying "lean") rodents who adapted by getting "outside the nest" to discover how to eat cockroaches, because we all know that cockroaches are the one form of life that can survive anything. Don't fear the dinosaur, fear the quivering warm-blooded tree-shrew.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

APRIL 5, 2010

Now by all of the usual arguments for Lean, Agile, and minimimalism, I should have used boogers too: Boogers were already semi-standardized. The boogers are placed next to the scrollbar, indicating where you'd need to scroll to see differences between the two versions of the file.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 15, 2010

Please give me money.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

Here's where you expect me to say how stupid big-business is and how little startups are smart and agile and never make mistakes like that, but that's crap. It's not just politics, it's human nature.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 30, 2010

Agile Development, meet Agile Business. Ideally, by the time I code it up, we'll have many customers using the platform which means I'll be working on a product I know is viable, and that's paying for the time I'm spending to automate it.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 4, 2017

“The future is inherently unpredictable,” insists the small company, spurred on by Lean and Agile mindsets. Of course, the latter is a better failure mode than the former, but both are sub-optimal, and the solution is predictability. Indeed, blue-sky invention and execution are hard to predict.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 19, 2010

Even "cool, agile" companies like 37signals are trapped. It's logical; for example at Smart Bear we have 35,000 users, so making a drastic change to the user interface or typical workflow would mean too much retraining, even if the end result is better.

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