A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

People selling first edition hardcover books are met with dwindling competition and joined with grateful customers who feel abandoned by the Kindle-driven online “book” industry. But the numbers of those customers is itself dwindling and few booksellers make enough money to keep the doors open. Is that really better?

Institutional Investors 240

Institutional Investors India China Viral 240

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

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. Jason: So how many of those 20,000 people are paying customers? Edwin: Okay, I have different types of customers.

Technical Cofounder 220

Technical Cofounder Cofounder Software Review Management 220

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 24, 2012

of companies should never raise venture capital. Venture capital, it’s a very particular industry. Maybe just 50 or 100 customers and you’re making enough money that this is your deal. Mark: But Dan, I want to say, your language, you have to be careful about not coming across as a grumpy entrepreneur.

Silicon Valley 204

Silicon Valley Software Review Internet Technical Review 204

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

This appears in statements like “We’re getting killed in the market for not having F” or “I’m sick of customers complaining — rightly! — that we’re bad at E” or “20% of customers leave us because we’re so bad at D.”

Differentiation 120

Differentiation Framework Restful Software Review 120