A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 12, 2010

And even you could work 70 on-task hours per week, that's still blown away by 10 developers at a funded company or even 10 passionate open source developers working part-time. Innovative design and intellectual property are no longer long-term competitive advantages. But working harder is not, in fact, smarter. We're cheaper.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 1, 2010

We're thinking of going open-source — it's free. You: Open-source is free like puppies are free. We do things open-source would never do. There's a myth that "more features are always more complex," but that's just bad user interface design. But in our case you get what you pay for.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 19, 2010

No, wait, I'm sorry, the real question is: What are you going to do when there are four totally free, open-source competitors? But now she has the vision and ability to design her own software, capitalizing on modern trends (e.g.

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