A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

APRIL 5, 2010

Still, every article I read turns the creative process of business and product design into Vulcanian objectivity. Now by all of the usual arguments for Lean, Agile, and minimimalism, I should have used boogers too: Boogers were already semi-standardized. Tags: Essays design fun metrics persona philosophy productivity.

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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

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

For example, let's say you designed a banner ad for a certain website (cost: $1000) and paid to run the ad for three months (cost: $2000). 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.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 30, 2010

Not automating this process creates the ongoing repetitive work that computers are designed to handle. Agile Development, meet Agile Business. It's a similar process when finding a designer, developer, or any outsourcing partner. Iteration vs. Automation. Manual workÖthis is what computers are supposed to save us from!

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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. Yet, it’s the job of a Product Manager at that mid-sized company to invent, discover, design, implement, and nurture those products — something that most entrepreneurs will never succeed at. Recruiting.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 19, 2010

But now she has the vision and ability to design her own software, capitalizing on modern trends (e.g. Some examples of a feature being a company's primary advantage are: Apple compromises everything in the name of design. Even "cool, agile" companies like 37signals are trapped.

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