A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

The startup community over at Answers OnStartups has really taken off! It takes love and devotion to curate a community like this, not only to delete spam but to help new members get involved, ask the right questions, and continue the spirit of constructive, respectful debate. It's a total blast — you should come check it out.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Get more involved in the Bay Area startup community: Join the WebWallflower mailing list to get a calendar of upcoming startup events and exclusive discounts sent right to you every two weeks. Or ask the community here for advice! Powered by LaunchBit ). Hopefully you can internalize it right now and act accordingly. Tweet. -->.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 15, 2013

Austin was quick to point out the various benefits of our “social media and community guy” being in the bay area and in close proximity to several of our other team members not to mention the heart of WordPress and a nerve-center of designers and marketing agencies.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 23, 2013

I wish the modern startup community would understand the mindset that gets a company to this point, and resist it. So no, this upside-down business model isn’t what a SaaS business should construct. The mindset works like this: It costs a lot of money to land an enterprise customer.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

DECEMBER 18, 2012

And if you want help thinking creatively about what that means for you , I’ll bet the community on this blog can help — let’s talk about it in the comments. Figure out your hard constraints, your skills, what you enjoy, stack-rank your preferences, and get creative about what form that could take.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 21, 2011

I have this blog, a nice Twitter following, attention in my local community, and social “favors&# I can call in, and it’s still almost impossible. So it’s useful to separate what aspects of your business could be improved with money alone from what you need to address with time, attention, and intelligence.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 25, 2010

He has seventeen zillion Twitter and blog followers, most of whom are themselves active in the WordPress community. He's famous enough that strangers at WordPress conventions ask for autographs of their dog-eared copy of his infamous tome.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

So maybe if you found the smaller bands who are also really good at communicating with their community. If they’re really organized they have a fan club, and Chicago probably does because they’re so big and organized, but the smaller ones surely don’t. Dan: Yeah, for a band that’s great.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 11, 2010

Whether it’s creating a software app that you’re going to build a global one-person business around, or giving away the Science Fiction stories you write as you build your community so you can launch a book, this is lonely stuff few back in the safe (ha!) warrens of working for some large company would dare do. To Do’s are not enough.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 27, 2013

To truly fulfill the promise of entrepreneurship and what we as founders can do for our customers, our communities, our employees, and yes our top and bottom lines, our visions must lift beyond the incremental metric and the hourly order rate. Even so, too often this right-minded obsession blocks us from an even greater calling.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

WordPress itself is open source; Automattic (the company behind WordPress) couldn't kill off this community if they tried. Unlike Apple, where they rule with an iron fist no matter the consequences.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 30, 2010

In 2009, I launched the Micropreneur Academy , a private membership community for startup founders. Here are two case studies to give you an idea of how you might use a VA in your own startup, whether serving a core business function or as administrative support. Case Study #1: Market Research.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

’ But I’m still looking for how to have conversations in the community about not having to go for funding, that you can go for revenue, and how it changes the dynamic of the team when you go for revenue. There’s the, ‘You don’t have to raise money,’ is one of them.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

DECEMBER 28, 2011

So that’s why it’s definitely not a book just for women, but I think that we had a lot of experience and a lot of connections to the community of women entrepreneurs.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

I feel like the bar has been raised so much in the last five years in the start up community and I’ve been busy working for a distinctly non-start up company. Well I appreciate that. That was a question that I’ve been having, actually a personal thing. The only way to really get back into it is to just do it.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JUNE 6, 2011

provide the community with better and finer-tuned results in the future. First of all, we encourage you all to fill out the 2nd version of. the Startup Genome survey. Not only will you gain insight about your. specific firm compared to other similar firms. You will also help us.

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