A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Ask a technical founder about his startup, and he'll proudly describe his stunning software — simple, compelling, useful, fun. Great," I always exclaim, sharing the thrill of modern software development, "so how will people find out about this brilliant website?". We're going to get reviews on blogs.".

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 20, 2016

Thus the top priority of every entrepreneur who wants funding should be to build and highlight their “dream team” of co-founders, executives and advisers, to attract the biggest and best investors. Business credentials and functional coverage. Solo entrepreneurs rarely find an investor. Focus on prior results, not titles.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 22, 2013

While you are working away on your business plan, looking for ways to raise capital, finding the right people to hire, etc., But have you ever had the opportunity to pick the brains of founders who created amazingly successful startups and companies like Envato , Backblaze , Simple , or Treehouse ? Find your niche.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 29, 2024

How to Be an Entrepreneur in 2024: 15 Tactics Revealed written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast with John Jantsch In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I interviewed Paul Cheek, a serial tech-preneur, educator, and software engineer. It might also be in Big Co.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 21, 2014

“Begin with the end in mind or risk being side tracked” Advice from James Griffith, Co-founder of Mous. Advice from Samantha Strom, Co-founder of Hazel Lane. The biggest piece of advice I can say is to be brave and just dive in to the business. Get a technical co-founder. T=Time bound.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 16, 2020

To be fair, many businesses had distributed teams even before COVID-19 blindsided us. In fact, according to Founders Forum’s survey of 400+ startup owners, 94% of the respondents were already working from home before the pandemic. Out-of-sync teams: The communication gap between co-workers can throw the entire team off-track.

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www.cscyphers.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Tutorial Day At #RailsConf » Why Trying To Find A Technical Co-Founder Will Almost Always Fail. Last night, I went to a local “find a co-founder” meetup for RE. It used to be that a techie needed a business person to get a business plan together and then use that to raise money.

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www.virtuosimedia.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Home ▶ Businesses ▶ Startup Business Advice ▶ Current Page How To Find A Technical Cofounder For Your Online Business Idea. This article should also serve as a starting guide for programmers who are approached about becoming technical co-founders. Sign that person to an NDA if necessary.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 20, 2019

Pricing : If you’re a small business, plans start at $12/month, with a maximum of 50,000 video plays. Anything over that falls into the Business plan, charged at $50/month for up to 150,000 plays. Alternatively, there’s a six-month Developers Plan , whereby you get access to all features except live streaming.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

A version of this article is in the Harvard Business Review. Why do these founders get to stay around? Because the balance of power has dramatically shifted from investors to founders. VCs competing for unicorn investments have given founders control of the board. This seems to be occurring more and more.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 12, 2018

Millias and Warren Chung of OUM & Co. They spend a lot of time, effort and resources on developing a business plan, and even more time and effort on raising capital, finding the right people and developing strategic partners. Millias is the managing partner and co-founder of OUM & Co. by Chris S.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 7, 2015

Businesses require an equally elegant business model, with the right price, messaging and delivery channel to the right target customers to keep the dream alive and growing. Defining the right business model requires the same diligence as designing the right product, but the approach and skills required are different.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

The United States is now a debtor nation to China and that the bill is about to come due. Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. Was it a Startup Founder Developer Gap ? But I don’t think so.

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Up and Running

APRIL 18, 2014

In the early 1990s, my brother was working for a company that was going through the roof selling shareware software via catalog. “I realized in the early 1990s that there was no appropriate yoga for fitness professionals,” says YogaFit® founder, Beth Shaw. says HourlyNerd co-founder and co-CEO, Rob Biederman. “So

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

MAY 6, 2019

Step three is to turn the spotlight on your business strengths, and identify what uniquely differentiates your startup from your competitors. Maybe your proprietary tech runs a software algorithm with unique results that only your startup delivers? This article was written by Wesley Rashid, co-founder and CEO of The Accountancy Cloud.

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Up and Running

MAY 10, 2012

Ben Lamson and Sulaiman Sanni, WeDidIt cofounders. Sulaiman Sanni and his partner Ben Lamson were both working for Meltwater Group, a large, well known Software as a Service company, Su as a social media consultant and Ben as a sales manager. million in grants to emerging businesses since 1999.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 15, 2017

The SBA says that about two-thirds of businesses fold within the first ten years. We’ve got a few suggestions to help you not only crack the entrepreneurship code, but ace it. Planning is vital, but be nimble. This means the proper execution of your idea or plan is of paramount importance.

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VC Cafe

JULY 29, 2012

On “ Intelligence Is Overrated: What You Really Need To Succeed “, a research by Carnegie Institute of Technology shows that “ 85 percent of your financial success is due to skills in “ human engineering ,” your personality and ability to communicate, negotiate, and lead. ” Question: What is Human Engineering?

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

.” Our featured speaker was Caroline Cummings, the VP of Business Development at Palo Alto Software. As the former co-founder and CEO of two technology companies, Caroline has experienced both start-up failures and successes, and has raised close to $1 million in investment capital.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

To create this first year in business checklist, I turned to our in-house experts here at Palo Alto Software: Sabrina Parsons, CEO; Noah Parsons, COO; Josh Cochrane, Vice President of Product Development; and Josh Fegles, Academic and Government Channel Sales Director, and founder of gluten-free cookie company Jude’s Foods.

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Up and Running

MAY 4, 2011

Tweet I was happy to pick up this quick piece from Jeff Bezos last month on Business Insider. Jeff, founder of Amazon.com, ought to know. In Business Insider’s Instant MBA series, Jeff says Business Plans Are Important and Necessary. Develop the plan, start moving, review and revise often.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 10, 2017

After seeing the negative effects of dehydration, both me and my co-founder, Ming, decided that we want to spread knowledge about hydration and create a product that could help with this problem. Hi my name is Raja Sahi, co-founder of Escapedom. My name is Zoltán Honti, co-founder of Escapedom. #9

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 6, 2014

include Anil Dash, who blogs at Dashes.com, and co-founded ThinkUp and Activate, as well as Nick Taranto from Plated. LinkedIn has been touted as the Facebook of the business world, but did you know that it’s also a great resource for priceless expert advice? Need to impress investors with a shiny new business plan?

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Up and Running

JULY 7, 2014

Neil Patel is the co-founder of Crazy Egg, Hello Bar and KISSmetrics. Also, read about why businesses fail. There are so many founders and entrepreneurs that openly write about their own failures so learning from others is increasingly easy. In fact, customers are a core part of the success of any business.

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www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

Sakti3 Founder Sastry to Step Down From U-M. Q&A: Group Commerce Plans Hires, European Growth with $21M Funding. VP of Strategic and Emerging Business Development, Microsoft. Co-Founder and CEO, Wetpaint. Founder, DEKA Research and Development Corporation. Subscribe for Free. Xconomy San Diego.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

signup, upgrade, trial pricing Zuora – online subscription management FeeFighters – find the cheapest credit card processors HealPay – Collections made easy Customer Support Tender – support, knowledgebase tool for your site GetSatisfaction - conversations between companies / customers.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. Also includes the most popular platforms, based on a year of data on business buy and sell marketplace, Flippa.com. .” s the new way to code, and quite easy to learn. Code Igniter. code spaces (svn).

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Up and Running

MAY 10, 2017

We didn’t know anything about small business accounting or finance. We didn’t even know how to write a business plan. In hindsight, it’s understandable that friends and family were skeptical when we told them about our business. Writing up a contract is especially important if you’re working with co-founders.

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Up and Running

MAY 18, 2015

I’m home at 11am on a weekday because I work remotely; I am employed by Palo Alto Software, but as they are located in Eugene, Oregon, and I am currently living in Portland, I am rarely in the office. This is hardly uncommon; remote employees, freelance workers, and unconventional office setups are becoming the norm.

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Up and Running

MAY 24, 2011

Tweet The Palo Alto Software team is at the National Restaurant Association Conference this week and Bplans is featuring articles and resources for restaurant owners. Tim’s note: this is an excerpt from The Plan As You Go Business Plan , posted here with permission of Entrepreneur Press, the publisher. Twitter.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 2, 2019

I’m a very risk adverse entrepreneur as a result of bootstrapping my first three businesses, almost failing on the fourth (Coremetrics) due to market timing (I was too early and didn’t predict the dot-com bust) and its overcapitalization, and being a mostly customer funded and very capital efficient on the fifth (Bazaarvoice).

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Up and Running

MAY 18, 2011

Tweet (Ed note: this is an excerpt from The Plan As You Go Business Plan , posted here with permission of Entrepreneur Press, the publisher. It’s here today because we are focusing on the restaurant business this week in honor of the National Restaurant Association trade show in Chicago). Plan as you go.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

DECEMBER 21, 2009

In the last post I beat you to death about ditching your business plan but failed to provide an alternative. For those hundreds of people who downloaded your software and never bought — is the reason "not enough features?". Can you share the burden with your co-founder or employees? Or switch off.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

But, the good news is, if all these people could start a brewery, then you can too—as long as you know what you’re getting into and have a solid business plan for your brewery. Word of mouth is no substitute for market research, says Ben Price, co-founder of Hard Knocks Brewing, a small brewpub in its second year of operation.

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Up and Running

JUNE 4, 2018

Starting your business. The modern business landscape is changing rapidly. Due to automation and other technological advances, many jobs that existed just a decade ago are gone forever. Obviously, there’s some need for caution if you plan to get a significant business off the ground while you’re studying.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 2, 2011

Whatever kind of business you’re running — whether it’s a retailer, software development firm, restaurant, accounting firm, or manufacturer — it’s imperative to listen to what your customers are really saying when they tell you what they want from your business. I apologize. You’re right.’ That’s all it took.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

I usually don’t back a business unless there are founders that can build, sell, and service the new solution that is being brought to market. In this case, they could build and service it but they needed a third co-founder to sell it. I thought the total available market (TAM) was too small and the team wasn’t complete?—?I

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