A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

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Refutation: An acquisition is always a failure

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Oh how the media loves superlatives (but only because that’s what we click on and share). Jake Lodwick wrote an article on PandoDaily entitled “An acquisition is always a failure.” ” He explains: Either the founders failed to achieve their goal, or – far likelier – they failed to dream big enough.

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Do I dare call bullshit aloud? Do you?

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

I won’t repeat the entire contents of the email, not because of “privacy&# but because it was 729 words which is almost the length of this article and who has time to read all that? The title of the email was excellent: “Guest Blogger Proposal – An Interesting Twist.&#. Present company excepted.

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If you build it, they won't come, unless.

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

I have relationships with editors of nearly all software development publications (on-line and off); I've already published articles with them. Some would help vet our stories, some would publish our articles. Tags: How-To advertising branding lead-gen marketing positioning social media. After release of v3.0

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Not disruptive, and proud of it

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

When they hear about a new social media craze they cringe in agony, desperately hoping it's a passing fad and not another new goddamn thing they'll be aimlessly paddling around in for the next decade. Scott Berkun gives several other examples in a recent BusinessWeek article. But most people are creatures of habit.

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Startup Therapy: Ten questions to ask yourself every month

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

That's where this article comes in: To splash cold water on your face, forcing you to face reality and continue to defend or change the important choices inside your business. Rather, they ask probing questions that get you to discover for yourself what is true for you, your situation, and what you want. You're smart.

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Attacking your sucky excuses for not blogging

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

You already know that nowadays you’re invisible without some sort of social media presence. When you see a great article that really resonates with you, that you wish you had written yourself, here’s the post you write next: [OTHER BLOGGER] wrote a great piece yesterday about how [SUMMARY OF ARGUMENT].

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Entrepreneurial Re-entry — Businesses for Moms

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

After reading the article and all the comments, I felt like the question wasn’t answered. So while it might indeed be more physically, mentally, and emotionally taxing, it’s not comparable to a startup , and it doesn’t imply that somehow after powering through child-rearing that a startup will be easy in comparison.