A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

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How to find that first big customer

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

I’m putting myself in the same boat now with the solution I’m developing so could you tell me: 1. The contract says you retain the IP and are allowed to sell a product like this to other companies. make for not putting customer development before writing code. How did you reach out to your first customer?

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WordPress Page Caching Faster than Light — @WPEngine releases TachyCache

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

In a joint venture with CERN, WP Engine has developed a TCP/IP layer on top of a faster-than-light neutrino beam, delivering page content in negative time. Today WP Engine proudly announces a new WordPress page-caching technology which actually delivers pages before the user clicks the link!

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Smart Bear Live 7: More from AZ Disruptors

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

They now do extra- merchandise so fan selling other fans merchandise that they made but this time with IP rights and everybody makes money, which is pretty cool. So Leon and I have met numerous times, about marketing strategy and the music one is that developed after Chicago became a customer. But they had the exact same problem.

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Smart Bear Live 6: Jared from Padseeker.com

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

” Just adding a Google map to a website, I mean, you might as well just be a web developer and charge $100 an hour and have a WordPress template and knock us out and charge them $5,000. We’re constantly trying out and developing new techniques, so month to month we’re not just serving traffic like some web host would do.”

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