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Helping Entrepreneurs Get To Where They Want To Go Faster

Duct Tape Marketing

My grandparents ran a very large cookie and bread factory in Bolivia. Everybody's so bootstrapped and so tight on dollars. Carolyn Rodz (03:04): So I started out actually my career as an investment banker and jumped into entrepreneurship quite blindly. I had been exposed to it a lot as a child. I struggled with inventory management.

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Real Unfair Advantages

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

No wait, I forgot, actually the question is: What happens when employee #2 makes off with your code and roadmap and marketing data and customer list, moves to Bolivia, and starts selling your stuff world-wide at one-tenth the price? Take the success of ITWatchDogs , the company I helped bootstrap and eventually sell (before Smart Bear).