A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

DECEMBER 21, 2009

Okay okay, "Planning == Bad," but the supposed benefits of planning are still important: designing for profitability, understanding your customers and competitors, focusing your attention, deciding what's worth doing next, changing directions, and ensuring the founders agree on important issues.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 15, 2013

Austin was quick to point out the various benefits of our “social media and community guy” being in the bay area and in close proximity to several of our other team members not to mention the heart of WordPress and a nerve-center of designers and marketing agencies.

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San Francisco Austin PHP Social Media 247

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Yet, it’s the job of a Product Manager at that mid-sized company to invent, discover, design, implement, and nurture those products — something that most entrepreneurs will never succeed at. Even at a significant salary cut, and even if the company fails — the most likely outcome. Recruiting.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

” So I’m looking at it, and the first thing I think is the design is simple. Edwin: Would I be able to attract other people if the design would be different? Jason: Some people think the design matters a lot more than that. I think this looks like no designer made this, right? And that’s probably good.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 25, 2011

Everyone here is a builder, a creator — whether a back-end programmer, a Linux hacker, a front-end producer, or a designer. In fact, I was on the judging panel last time, and the tech and design had nothing to do with our decisions. You’ll also do coding and design and that’s fine of course. You make stuff.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 7, 2016

This probably means capitalizing on the unique experience or abilities of the founding team, choose trade-offs in things like language/framework, algorithms, UX design , and delivery platform that the team is particularly adept in and thus can create quickly and with low risk. But why will the 50th employee join ?

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San Francisco Startup Framework Azure 170