A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

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A vote for me is a vote for dipshit businesses everywhere

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Let's get the self-aggrandizing plea for attention out of the way: Please vote for my SxSW panel entitled "A Bootstrapped Geek Sifts Through the Bullshit.". He believes that angel investors are pushing entrepreneurs to think small, and avoid the home run swings. And you don’t get a home run unless you swing hard, he says.

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How to think about cash vs. equity compensation

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Hard to know, but an important question for a bootstrap startup to answer! 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? What about $Y/mo?&#

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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.???