A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

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Smart Bear Live 8: Edwin from MeetingKing.com

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

We started with the product about three years ago, development, a year later we released it. They have many, many man-years of development and customer development in them. You have your general management meeting and in your general management meeting you talk about product development, about marketing and about finance.

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Smart Bear Live 5: Dan from SyncBloc.com with Mark Suster

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

I’m in development right now. of companies should never raise venture capital. Venture capital, it’s a very particular industry. I started to develop a thesis that the future of content distribution is going to be different. We’re building a product. This is actually my third company.

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How to simplify complex decisions by cleaving the facts

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Sure, you can’t turn a catastrophic weakness into a super-strength, but you could at least bring it to a passable neutral: The trouble with this line of thinking is that it ignores a deeper truth, which is that developing a 10x strength is far more valuable than shifting a weakness to neutral.