A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 18, 2015

They have everything: money, brand, momentum, existing customers, press, product teams, distribution channels, expertise, market insight, analysts, sales offices, product features, and, by definition, a working business model. Watch how fast your stock plummets when Wall Street thinks your future earnings are in jeopardy. Not anymore.

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Gust

JANUARY 31, 2013

The move came as a shock to many in the tech business community, in which we’ve become accustomed to real-time disclosure by company executives through social media. To understand the SEC’s point of view , it’s necessary to review the principles underlying securities law in the United States.

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 18, 2011

We are not in a technology bubble. We have not even taken a major step towards a technology bubble. So let us first ask if “a very high percentage of the population&# has bought into a distorted premise about the future growth prospects for technology. The internet is working. Ex-cash it’s 13.5.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

When I met my now-wife, I realized that any technology that can find me a spouse is a killer app. I’d argue that the same type of technologies that have revolutionized dating can revolutionize our industry. . I walk through below how progressive investors are using technology and analytics throughout all of their operations.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Technology | Thursdays. TECHNOLOGY. Internet and Online Business. Technology. Why Arizona Bay started taking stock from its customers instead of cash. Like a venture capitalist reviewing business plans, he now weighs the potential of every company Arizona Bay works with. Join our community. Forgot login ?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 1, 2014

The first is that it could carry limited inventory in stock because it had limited physical shelf space. ” Bill Gross, who is one of the Godfathers of the Internet, once told me, “ If you don’t design a product that is 10x better than the competition then you’ll never build anything truly big or amazing.”

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www.joelonsoftware.com

MARCH 24, 2010

Our official titles will be: (8) Technical Intern (9-12) Member of Technical Staff (13-15) Fog Creek Fellow "Member of Technical Staff", a.k.a. After that, every six months, Fog Creek management will review the performance of everyone in the company with the goal of making sure that people are at the right level.

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

As a result, most models are used as a rough guide to see if you are “in the ball park,” or to see if a particular stock is either wildly under-valued or over-valued. What Professor Damodaran thinks, or what anyone who is not a buyer or seller of stocks thinks, is fairly immaterial. So here is the objective of this post. New Use Cases.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 17, 2010

Like many small companies with limited marketing budgets, we are forced to work with the resources at hand, so creativity, partnering approaches, social media, and viral efforts tend to be our stock in trade. Or right here on the good ol’ Internets? a cutting-edge technology that no on else offers? Solve a problem?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 6, 2012

Chris Anderson wrote a really influential book some years ago called “ The Long Tail ” that shaped how many people think about emerging Internet markets. This was how companies who produced media became big before the Internet. That couldn’t happen without the advent of lower cost production & distribution.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 23, 2014

Today, with the decentralising nature of the Internet, distributed cloud technology and a growing sentiment toward entrepreneurship, the global startup ecosystem has never been so dispersed. And this is just one of the many pioneering technologies surfacing out of this mid-sized Southern city of the Netherlands.

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Up and Running

MARCH 1, 2016

The internet. So, if I were going to invent something, I’d probably start by creating an affordable jeweler’s workbench, not least because I’d be able to test it, and because I already know all the distribution channels I’d need to hit in order to sell it. That airplane thousands of miles above you. The memory foam pillow on your bed.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2015

It has become so synonymous with Internet companies that the French have invented a disdainful term including Amazon: “les GAFA,” which they refer to as Google-Apple-Facebook-Amazon to talk about American dominance of the Internet. It is a household name. ” Let’s start with some basics. And they have.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The Bridge Between Online Services & The Internet: AOL. It was an online community like CompuServe and eventually started offering people dial-up access to the Internet for a monthly fee. AOL was controlled by one company and the Internet was distributed. AOL was closed, the Internet was open.

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Transformify

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Blockchain has received wide media coverage due to its astronomical growth in recent years. Other than being applied to cryptocurrency, blockchain technology can be applied in virtually every other kind of industry and business, and especially to startups. Technology. Technology Resources. Knowledge Resources.

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

I’ve had the opportunity to work with many impressive teams and product managers from a broad range of leading tech companies, and this has helped me to get a better sense of the what is essential to the role, and to success. Those were the technology-powered innovations that enabled the new, much more desirable business model.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Virtual Stock Exchange. Technology. This service is temporary unavailable due to system maintenance. The Wall Street Journal is phasing out support of the Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) browser. Internet Explorer. Loading… Tech. Personal Technology. TECHNOLOGY. Financial News. WSJ Classroom.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 26, 2019

The contract company would handle the other business aspects such as distribution, marketing, and sales. Alcohol production, distribution, and sales are all heavily shaped by laws. The current laws governing alcohol production, distribution, and sales evolved in the wake of the Prohibition era. Get to know the legal stuff.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 28, 2010

The macro reason: that’s the way most of the great technology companies have been built. At Andreessen Horowitz, our primary goal is to invest in the great technology franchises. VMware—Diane Greene. (*) While not technically cofounders, Andy Grove and Thomas Watson, Sr. Oracle—Larry Ellison. Peoplesoft—Dave Duffield.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

That not only signifies the missed opportunity that BlackBerry is desperately trying to make up for now — following its botched weekend launch of BBM for iOS and Android — but it sees Livingston’s own startup over take the company that gave him his start in the technology world. “I I went to university in Waterloo in 2005 for engineering.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

I have the knowledge in tech to implement it. If you’re looking for technical talent – go to the dev meetups. what are the most crucial steps to be taken by a new tech startup when outsourcing major part of the tech to IT firms or outsourcing “product development” eg new social media website project?

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! And it's, it's through neural networks and the way the technology is built, it gets smarter and it gets more accurate for receiving inputs and output and giving you an output that's practical. (03:33): Tech, how it's built, how it's used. 05:51): Um, so it's kind of fun.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 3, 2023

Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! And it's, it's through neural networks and the way the technology is built, it gets smarter and it gets more accurate for receiving inputs and output and giving you an output that's practical. (03:33): Tech, how it's built, how it's used. 05:51): Um, so it's kind of fun.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Tech Gadgets Mobile Enterprise GreenTech CrunchBase TechCrunch TV Disrupt SF More TechCrunch TV Beta Invites Crunchies Elevator Pitches Gillmor Gang Podcasts TechCrunch Europe TechCrunch Trends TechCrunch France TechCrunch Japan Whats Hot: Android Apple Facebook Google Microsoft Twitter Yahoo Zynga Subscribe: From Nothing To Something.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 28, 2013

Songza demonstrates great use of technology, but not in an in your face look at how smart we are way. Shows me again if the product is in stock. the reviews. Read their invitation to get you to write a review. Then some reviews (they float by). or 1345 hrs or 2200 hrs. They deliver delight. How soothing. :) 3.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Virtual Stock Exchange. Loading… Tech. To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. Stock Quotes. AllThingsDigital. AllThingsDigital. Financial News. Professor Journal. SmartMoney.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

If I wanted to outsource back office operations to the Philippines, the cost would range from 7 to twelve dollars per hour, and this includes salaries, benefits, power, internet, rent, and contingencies. Then identify the goals and distribute them to the various departments in your company. And it’s not just about cost savings.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 14, 2016

After reviewing cumulative data, ConversionXL highlighted just how vital speed is to conversions : “57% of visitors will abandon a page that takes 3 seconds or more to load.”. “47% If your site receives high volumes of traffic that are globally distributed, third-party solutions can be a tremendous help. seconds to 1.6. Identification.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

In late 2015, many public technology companies saw a significant retrenchment in their share prices primarily as a result of a reduction in valuation multiples. The same thing happened to many Internet stocks. In Q1 of 2016 there were zero VC-backed technology IPOs. Amazon went from $106 to $6 as a public company.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

These are good things to think about and companies to study as we move back from consumer to Enterprise in the tech cycle. And so we think that the model flipped to a model where, today, where the most interesting and advanced new technology now comes out for the consumer first. Security, Cloud, NoSQL databases, etc.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Everyone is welcome on every public website on the internet. . Cheesy stock photos. Always compare data between segments and distributions. Watch out for any technical issues – sometimes reported data is wrong due to poor implementation. “Who We Are” — Who cares! No one gives a damn!

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Most employees work diligently to deliver against set expectations. Too much emphasis was on Averages (remember averages suck, distributions are better ). Company did recover, their stock is doing fine. In this case this was technically a micro-outcome in this case (conversion is offline). ACT goals were set imprecisely.

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Up and Running

MAY 28, 2015

There’s nothing wrong with some criticism mixed in with glowing reviews. Word of mouth marketing is the most effective kind of persuasion that a brand can have, so encourage trusted sources to review and talk about your product. These days, the internet rules marketing—and SEO is king. 4) Create original content.

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Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

I’ve been noodling on this post for a few months now, trying to find the best way to explain why a decentralized Internet is important and how we might get from here to there. It certainly seems that the use case and demand for a decentralized Internet has never been stronger. More inclusive models of stakeholder capitalism.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JANUARY 21, 2011

Stock Market In my Junior year in college, I started day trading and grew a $2,000 pot to over $40,000 thanks to a big one-hit wonder. I am not a guru in stock trading. For example, my dad wouldn’t touch stocks because he doesn’t understand them. In fact I don’t care to be. The arbitrage simply works.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

Brian is the CEO of Coinbase, a successful tech company, and one of 2021's most successful IPOs. Can institutions be totally distributed or should they be rooted and loyal to a certain community or geography? Why don't we just put this plan on the internet? It kind of aggregates technology content, I suppose. BA : Yeah.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

automatic links to generated images Rietveld - asynchronous code reviews on changesets Tech*if*er0*urs – blog on roadmap for learning rails Best free programming books Project Management Basecamp - web-based project management and collaboration tool. WebSequenceDiagrams - sketch sequence diagrams.

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