A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

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How do I figure out who my next important hire should be?

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Identify what role is missing from the company today, which also is the most vital for (your definition of) success over the next 12 months. (“Success” could mean revenue growth, great customer service, removing a large risk, or a dozen other things.). Instead, your process should be: 1. Hire the best person for that role.

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Refutation: An acquisition is always a failure

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Oh how the media loves superlatives (but only because that’s what we click on and share). Jake Lodwick wrote an article on PandoDaily entitled “An acquisition is always a failure.” ” He explains: Either the founders failed to achieve their goal, or – far likelier – they failed to dream big enough.

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Do I dare call bullshit aloud? Do you?

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OK yeah, it was definitely that. I mean, as much as Social Media is supposed to be about “honesty&# and “being human&# and “genuineness,&# of course most isn’t. This time I couldn’t just “take a rain check&# with the customary social niceties.

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Darwinian company growth doesn’t always select the best companies

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Darwinian growth wins by definition; there’s no arguing that, no use crying about it, and government regulation will only delay the inevitable while shifting the location of the winners to other countries. It’s up to we entrepreneurs and employees both, to ask whether growth is sufficient.

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Taking "Fail Fast" to a whole. 'nutha. level

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

I hate it when writers resort to dictionary definitions to make a point. So true, so true, and that's the perspective you must adopt to become adroit in social media.". Cause from what I can tell "authentic" actually means "pretending to care about what other people think so that they'll mention you on Twitter.".

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Smart Bear Live 7: More from AZ Disruptors

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Jason: Because you said premium digital media, so I didn’t get selling music out of that. He might not be just because of his particular style but what he is is definitely the kind of guy that if he got behind this and explained this as a strategy, he might be able to put 1,000 in your lap. You want people to pay for it.

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Episode 3b: Smart Bear Live!

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Each one starts from a different place and a different definition of that. Q: Enterprise by definition is settled law. Any company that’s gotten that big has a definite way of doing things and a definite way of deciding what new things they’re going to do. Patrick: I agree, and definitely needs to be reminded.

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