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. , so you figure if you work a "healthy" 70 hours per week , you'll win! But working harder is not, in fact, smarter. We're cheaper.
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
DECEMBER 20, 2016
What would happen if I forced you to develop all your precious, proprietary, secret-sauce code in a public Github repository? For example, if Etsy open-sourced their entire stack, would that make it easy for a competitor to overtake Etsy? One thing would be: You would be judged.
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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. When you have a problem, we connect you directly with developers instead of hiding behind off-shore Level 1 support. We do things open-source would never do. But in our case you get what you pay for.
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
JULY 19, 2010
About twenty people on Answers OnStartups have asked this question in one form or another: When I meet an angel investor, he may ask: "What if a big company copies your idea and develops the same website as yours after your website goes public?". How can I answer this question? After the talk typically 5-20 people want to chat one-on-one.
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
FEBRUARY 7, 2011
And let’s suppose you want to allocate just a little time for career development. Maybe that means going to a conference or two, or working on an open-source project, or instituting “10% time&# at work (like Google’s 20% time but more reasonable for those of us who don’t have billions in profit from a cash-cow).
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