A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

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What did they do before you came along?

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Here’s a simple question, often asked when designing software but more useful when you’re designing your marketing and sales pitch: How are people doing this today without you? Your power users are the mavens to whom non-power users look for advice, so they become your sales force. World domination! Launching Doggie Cards.

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The public invisibility of running mid-stage successful companies

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

As the CTO of a 130-person company that’s still growing along every dimension at a prodigious rate, that’s the appropriate job description. How we’ve designed and started to scale the sales team. But I can’t share anything about it. The journey of our successful Series C fundraising.

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