A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

article thumbnail

Trends: Follow or flee?

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

It’s Amazon selling books online just when everyone wanted to buy stuff online but before everyone believed shipping costs weren’t overwhelming. Even so, venture capital has a horrible record in the past ten years — most funds don’t make good money. It’s precognition combined with impeccable timing.

article thumbnail

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

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

It’s quite simple, which is when you had systems where you had limitations on distribution or transportation of products, it enabled you to operate with a certain cost structure. That cost structure for traditional industry, for historic reason, remains high. of companies should never raise venture capital.

article thumbnail

Smart Bear Live 8: Edwin from MeetingKing.com

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

But assuming it’s a fair exit, a venture capitalist, and I’m explicitly not saying angel because we could talk about angel and they’re sort of special so that might work out. Edwin: No, I do think, and I realize that very much, that if I were to take venture capital, the whole game changes.