A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Are you OK with innovation taking a back seat to developing scalable, mature processes? Are you OK releasing control in day-to-day operations to managers, and then releasing control of the managers to your executive team? The fact is, startups grow up. At Smart Bear I didn’t want to lead a huge company.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

” Introspective young founders appreciate this, and often the stated solution is “delegation,” as defined by: I’ll do it myself, then I’ll understand it, then if further investment is warranted, I’ll have the experience to hire and instruct a new person. .” And it’s wrong.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Either you haven’t hired great talent, or you have but you’re disempowering them. “New role” can mean sophistication, management, or a different job. Otherwise, this is a failure of organizational development. One-on-ones are never a waste of time. Agendas are optional and sometimes even counterproductive.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

And when you look at the tools that we use, I mean we’ve made so many technological advances, but really to manage a meeting there’s not a practical tool available. We use email; we use Word; we use task manager; we use a file sharing tool. They are so happy that they finally have a tool to manage their business.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

APRIL 25, 2011

In the mid 90s it was clear that Apple had lost the personal computer battle and all their developers were fleeing like rats off a sinking ship into the ocean of opportunity that was Windows 95. Maybe that means a big new advertising campaign, or hiring another WordPress expert for our staff. I could have said “no.&#

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MAY 17, 2010

If this is your attitude, your conception of tech support is completely backwards and you're missing out on important channels for marketing, product development, and sales. Yes, I'm flagrantly paraphrasing the legendary Kathy Sierra , but the idea applies as much to tech support as to product development.). Are you surprised?

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

DECEMBER 21, 2009

Second, you know the length of your fuse even in event of disaster (if you have revenue) or if you never manage to land a customer (if you're just starting out). If you were forced to hire someone today, how would you define her job such that she would contribute enough revenue to cover her expense?

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 22, 2013

There’s a saying that a great developer is 10x more productive than a mediocre one. A great developer, or a great designer, is better than 10x an average one — they’re better than an infinite number. Now, if you understand this universal, timeless, human rule, you then realize you cannot afford to hire anyone less.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 24, 2012

It’s rich contact management, event planning, notification services, and task management, but at the family level. We’ve got amazing calendar tools, we’ve got contact management tools. I’m in development right now. Then we hired two people and got profitable again in another six months.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 2, 2013

Never mind managing consultants or employees! If you hire employees, are you not responsible to them? Get eight of those and you’ll be lucky to be in the coding zone once a month. Not to worry, the escorts don’t love the work either. If you have a co-founder, are you not responsible to her as well?

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 8, 2012

Jared: Yeah, I think initially the real focus of Padseeker is going to be an on-demand solution to create a website for property management. I mean, imagine, in an abstract sense, how you might download, say, WordPress, and you’re doing that for content management, or for a blog. So it’s property management software?

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

One thing I learned from there, is that the manager is the first step. And B,The manager often is the one controlling how the money works. So, if the manager’s on board, you’re probably going to start and if not, you’re don’t regardless of the band. So the manager, that’s one thing.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Because then you’d miss out on: Whether it’s better experience to build a complete, tiny startup or to do more in-depth customer development for a meatier problem. So that means stuff like thinking about what a business model might be, it does mean customer development. So I have a question for you, Jason. Patrick: Exactly.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Because then you’d miss out on: Whether it’s better experience to build a complete, tiny startup or to do more in-depth customer development for a meatier problem. But we managed to grow a few customers, so that’s good, in spite of the name. Noel: So we been looking on enterprise power management tool.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 8, 2010

If managed improperly, you're unnecessarily risking lawsuits and worse. You can't afford to hire three developers to add features and bugs. Time management is critical. I'm naturally awful at personal time management. But you've also placed yourself in a hazardous, potentially legally ambiguous situation.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

DECEMBER 28, 2011

She’s in business for over 10 years and she’s been able to pursue this hobby of her’s and it’s a huge part of her life while growing a very successful business that is very manageable and has kept her very satisfied and happy. ’ On top of that, she actually needed to be flexible with her spouse.

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