A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

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The hidden benefits of Uniform Culture

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Requiring school uniforms has been a subject of debate in America for decades; today 20% of public schools require uniforms. Thanks @shaptora @asmartbear pic.twitter.com/ipAUbBU1DA. — Ryan Duff (@ryancduff) October 30, 2014.

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When free markets make it worse: new TLDs

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Electricity, plumbing, and roadways are things which are so critical to our daily lives and so unthinkably wasteful to allow “competition&# that even in crazy-capitalist America we agree that it’s better to have just one set of pipes underground and one set of wires on the telephone poles.

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Intense Asymmetry and Self-Flagellation

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

And high-tech-America was in post-bubble recession with barely anyone at all who would actually pay a premium for WordPress-specific hosting. And I didn’t have several startup successes under my belt and monied contacts earned from blogging and speaking, so I can’t raise money like we did.

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Color Wheels are wrong? How color vision actually works

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Every seven-year-old kid in America is taught that “the opposite of red is green&# and “the opposite of blue is yellow.&# What about that fuchsia / magenta / purplish-reddish color which is clearly present in every color wheel but missing from the physical spectrum? How can a color be missing ? Where does it come from?

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The only way to guarantee startup success

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

To sell out would make it one of the largest music concerts ever played in America — highly unlikely for an English electronic band. Depeche Mode had decided to play the Pasadena Rose Bowl — capacity 60,000 — for the 101st show of their 1988 tour.

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But I know that he knows that I know

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

When two people in America need to make a boolean decision and a coin isn’t available, the go-to method of problem resolution is Rock, Paper, Scissors. Generally people feel this game is fair, meaning there’s an equal likelihood of each participant winning, losing, or tying.

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Point/Counter-Point: Startup Genome Project Considered Harmful

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

The obvious approach is to look at the global statistics on voters in America. The obvious approach is to look at the global statistics on voters in America. To see why, here’s a trick question: A person P living in Austin, Texas voted in the 2008 American presidential election for either Barak Obama or John McCain.

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