A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
FEBRUARY 26, 2019
You’re not allocating enough costs to gross margin or the cost to acquire a customer. You can start by selling to small customers and evolve to larger ones, because you’re starting with a low cost-basis and then maturing your product and service. Either you haven’t hired great talent, or you have but you’re disempowering them.
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
DECEMBER 21, 2009
Second, you know the length of your fuse even in event of disaster (if you have revenue) or if you never manage to land a customer (if you're just starting out). This gets you to crystallize what cost-centric activities would most help your business. Before you argue, don't forget about the cost of lost sales.). It's accurate.
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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
SEPTEMBER 4, 2012
One thing I learned from there, is that the manager is the first step. And B,The manager often is the one controlling how the money works. So, if the manager’s on board, you’re probably going to start and if not, you’re don’t regardless of the band. So the manager, that’s one thing.
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
OCTOBER 4, 2017
By which they mean: Without stupid rules that assume employees are dumb or evil, without everything taking ten times longer than it should, without wall-to-wall meetings, without resorting to hiring anything less than the top 1% of the talent pool, and so on. It’s a big reason why they move quickly. No, it’s a colossal failure.
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
AUGUST 8, 2012
Jared: Yeah, I think initially the real focus of Padseeker is going to be an on-demand solution to create a website for property management. I mean, imagine, in an abstract sense, how you might download, say, WordPress, and you’re doing that for content management, or for a blog. So it’s property management software?
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
MARCH 11, 2014
And when you look at the tools that we use, I mean we’ve made so many technological advances, but really to manage a meeting there’s not a practical tool available. We use email; we use Word; we use task manager; we use a file sharing tool. They are so happy that they finally have a tool to manage their business.
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
NOVEMBER 7, 2017
Examples: large bidders tripled the cost per click, Google’s SEO algorithm changed, the event organizers changed the rules or stopped doing the event, the link-sharing site became irrelevant, the hot blog lost its traffic, the magazine running the ads finally failed. . copy you) or just fail, that’s the end of the company.
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