A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

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Smart Bear Live 8: Edwin from MeetingKing.com

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

And standing out to a company that got $10 million dollars in funding even before they started Asana is going to be very hard if you bootstrap it with your savings. I think another thing you wanted to talk about was the whole keep bootstrapping or raise money question. For venture capital, right? Jason: Exactly.

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Smart Bear Live 5: Dan from SyncBloc.com with Mark Suster

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Trying to figure out how the Silicon Valley… again, my last venture was not built here. I bootstrapped it on my own. of companies should never raise venture capital. Venture capital, it’s a very particular industry. Trying to learn this environment. Let me say this to you. 99%, maybe 99.8%