A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Idealistic founders believe they will break the mold when they scale, and not turn into a “typical big company.” Or it’s fatal because that was a co-founder. Some idealistic founders believe the root cause of scaling issues is the “command-and-control” organizational structure. Recruiting.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

” Almost all startup founders experience a deep and prolonged sadness after selling their company , even when the sale is an outrageous success. The answer is important and fundamental for all startup founders, whether or not they ever intend to sell their company. A startup is the founder’s personal identity.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Maybe you worked there or a co-founder or investor has some juice). Sign up for AppSumo 's daily deals specifically for web geeks & entrepreneurs. Either of the following scenarios makes sense for a new startup going after a large-scale enterprise market: You’ve identified a deep pain at a large company.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

Welcome back to Smart Bear Live … the show were Jason speaks with entrepreneurs looking to improve their businesses. Listen to this episode if you want to hear about a founder who has a product and users and paying customers … and is trying to figure out how to take his company to the next level and grow faster.

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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. Four uncomfortable seconds later, a smile breaks across the founder's face. This is Part 5 of the 5-part series: 5 lessons from 150 startup pitches. Frightening honesty. Making Oprah cry.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JUNE 13, 2011

co-founder Alexis Ohanian is so cool and smart and rich and funny and successful and good-looking that really he doesn’t deserve to be alive. she also authors a terrific blog aimed at the solo entrepreneur.). Sign up for AppSumo 's daily deals specifically for web geeks & entrepreneurs.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

How cofounders can collaborate without going crazy. Jason: It’s Adelaide and Amy, two women who have a co-working space in New York specifically for women entrepreneurs. They just wrote a book where they interviewed hundreds of women entrepreneurs. What does it mean to have a co-founder or not?

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

APRIL 25, 2011

“Yes&# if it means one of the co-founders can quit her day-job. Sign up for AppSumo 's daily deals specifically for web geeks & entrepreneurs. . “Yes&# if this extends the runway of our startup by at least three months. “Yes&# if it completely funds development we’d like to do anyway.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

DECEMBER 21, 2009

Okay okay, "Planning == Bad," but the supposed benefits of planning are still important: designing for profitability, understanding your customers and competitors, focusing your attention, deciding what's worth doing next, changing directions, and ensuring the founders agree on important issues. Cartoon by Andertoons. Or switch off.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

My co-hosts were Bob Walsh and Patrick Foley , hosts of the well-known Startup Success Podcast. How cofounders can collaborate without going crazy. Or in co-working spaces it’s not. We are a company of five, and we have two co- founders, myself and Adam Ride. So I have a question for you, Jason.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 30, 2010

He blogs to 10,000 web entrepreneurs at Software by Rob and co-hosts the podcast Startups for the Rest of Us. A virtual assistant (VA) is a remote worker hired to complete tasks you should not be doing as the founder of a startup. You are now an entrepreneur. Introduction. This article intends to answer those questions.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 6, 2012

Almost all founders I encounter are leery about discussing their product plans. When you’re pitching customers and mentors and investors and potential hires and co-founders, just talk. Sign up for AppSumo 's daily deals specifically for web geeks & entrepreneurs. Don’t VCs do that?

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JUNE 6, 2011

Summarized here , their modern “rules of business&# include “Solo founders take 3.6x Supposing you’re a solo founder, after reading that quote above you can’t help but start in with the self-doubt. “Maybe I need to think about finding a co-founder. don’t tell entrepreneurs to do that.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

That one was good but execution wasn’t there; then you find a co-founder for another concept. And that blindness is what I see most often in startup founders, and what I know will ultimately kill off their companies. Sign up for AppSumo 's daily deals specifically for web geeks & entrepreneurs. Keep spinning.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

DECEMBER 28, 2011

On the other side of this radio interview are Adelaide Lancaster and Amy Abrams , both founders of their own startups, both coaches and mentors to dozens of other startups over the years, and who together created and still run the In Good Company co-working space for women entrepreneurs in New York City.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 11, 2011

SEOmoz founder and figurehead Rand Fishkin wrote a typically transparent, thoughtful blog post about his struggle of whether to raise a Series B. The typical arguments against: (a) unfair to employees/co-founders, (b) now you’re not hungry so you care less, work less, (c) swinging for fences without attention to detail is imprudent.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Jay Neely of Social Strategist and co-founder of EasyImpress. Related posts: Uncommon Interview: Bob Walsh, Digital Entrepreneur Rude Q&A Startup Therapy: Ten questions to ask yourself every month 2000 feature requests: Our foray into Uservoice Uncommon Interview: Balsamiq Studios. Tim of StackOverthrow. Join the fun.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MAY 1, 2012

This is a choice that every startup founder must make , so I’d like to dig in deeper. If a co-founder has a rolodex in the industry — extremely common — then it would be surprising not to find 10 people. Sign up for AppSumo 's daily deals specifically for web geeks & entrepreneurs. I disagree.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

APRIL 9, 2013

Guest post by Ben Yoskovitz, the co-author of Lean Analytics , a new book on how to use analytics successfully in your business. We know entrepreneurs are delusional. They may not have been rigorously following Lean Startup from the get-go, but founder Robert May was testing his ideas right from the start. Was it a lazy pivot?

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