A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 4, 2017

“Founder trouble” is a leading cause of startup death (though data also show that companies with only one founder are more likely to fail , so the conclusion is just that startups are just always likely to fail!). Employee #2 will join a startup for the experience. Or it’s fatal because that was a co-founder.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 30, 2010

Rob Walling generously allowed me to reprint this excerpt from his new book, "Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup" available in paperback and Kindle from Amazon and in PDF and ePub from StartupBook.net. Why Should My Startup Use a Virtual Assistant? Agile Development, meet Agile Business.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Consulting can be a great way to fund a startup or make a bunch of cash. These are generally bigger, more dysfunctional companies with 25-page Master Service Agreements and complex, ever-changing requirements (though no acceptance of “agile&# or “lean&# ). Want to work with me on a startup? Easy money, right?

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 19, 2010

This is Part 2 of the series: 5 lessons from 150 startup pitches.??? No, wait, the real question is: What are you going to do when another smart, scrappy startup copies it, and gets $10m in funding, and is thrice featured on TechCrunch? What if someone copies your awesome business idea? The Dream Team.

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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

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. So where in my life of startups has this crept up and bit me? It's not just politics, it's human nature. But that's exactly why you have to be especially vigilant.

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