A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

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A butterfly flaps its wings and you make a sale

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Like, if you have a compelling story that people intrinsically want to spread, that's more influential than building a snappy Flash animation for your home page. I like the idea of subtle yet powerful influences as much as anyone else, and I'm not saying design and attention to detail isn't important or valuable.

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Vetting a startup (or two): The systematic birth of @WPEngine

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Let me dispose of any lingering ideas that WPEngine was a great flash of insight , born perfect from conception like a Greek God emerging from the ocean, a once-per-decade occurrence sourced from unsystematic inspiration. Let me also dispel your doubts that you can't produce similar ideas with similar results using a similar process.

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