A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

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Special Edition: Smart Bear Live!

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

This episode was expertly co-hosted by Joshua Baer , founder of OtherInbox , progenitor of Capital Factory , angel investor , and previous founder of SKYLIST and UnsubCentral, both sold. How to “size a market&# when there’s no good data, and some common pitfalls when you try.

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Kung Fu

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Angel investors want a story and celebrity by association at cocktail parties. The desire to impress others drives behavior more than logical argument. Founders start companies to show everyone else that they’re better than those everyones give them credit for. It’s cliché, but it really is the journey, not the destination.

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Guest post round-up

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Four ways to get automatically rejected by an Angel investor. Advice on pitching Angel investors who often have different criteria than the typical VC. VentureBeat). Also see my follow-up article: Four more ways. Ten ways to make your writing more compelling.

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A vote for me is a vote for dipshit businesses everywhere

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

The real reason they're pissed is that VCs are increasingly unnecessary to get companies started , both because of inexpensive technology and marketing channels and because there are enough angel investors that founders don't have to sell the entire farm for ridiculous amounts of cash they don't really need.

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How to think about cash vs. equity compensation

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

This is the key, because Q — what an institutional investor would accept — is a well-understood system. So what kind of return does an angel investor need to make on their $84,000? So if that’s the same as P, we’re done.

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Real Unfair Advantages

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

About twenty people on Answers OnStartups have asked this question in one form or another: When I meet an angel investor, he may ask: "What if a big company copies your idea and develops the same website as yours after your website goes public?". This is Part 2 of the series: 5 lessons from 150 startup pitches.???

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New Year’s Questions (neé Resolutions)

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

crowd-funding, customer-prepays, angel investor who won’t drive you nuts)? What would you do with an extra $50,000 in cash? If that something is truly game-changing, should you do something to make that a reality (e.g. For consultants: If I forced you to double your rates, what would you have to do to justify it?