A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

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The fundamental lesson of the forces governing scaling startups

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

They could have taken the tens of millions of dollars that the product cost to develop, and made their existing operation just 0.01% more effective, and made the same amount of money. Because after developing that expertise, they find it’s only possible and enjoyable to apply their skills within a larger environment.

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How do I get my first few customers?

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

I’m putting myself in the same boat now with the solution I’m developing so could you tell me: How did you reach out to your first customer? Because I have another advantage in that I could both build the initial architecture and write the website copy. The fallacy here is that you can copy what I did and get a customer.

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Smart Bear Live 6: Jared from Padseeker.com

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

” Just adding a Google map to a website, I mean, you might as well just be a web developer and charge $100 an hour and have a WordPress template and knock us out and charge them $5,000. We’re constantly trying out and developing new techniques, so month to month we’re not just serving traffic like some web host would do.”

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