A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

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How cold calling (properly) works better than AdWords

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Those higher costs make learning to write ads, manage campaigns, A/B test, and design landing pages a very expensive activity for an early stage, bootstrapping startup. I’m Robert Graham and I’m an internet entrepreneur working on software for deer management. Each of those pieces merits its own book alone.

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How should a startup founder value her time?

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Supposing this client is an early-stage startup — even if funded — the most likely event is that they stiff you! Sign up for AppSumo 's daily deals specifically for web geeks & entrepreneurs. But “lost interest” and a premium doesn’t solve the biggest problem with these terms.

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When do I *stop* doing customer interviews and start writing code?

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

More cooks in the kitchen — at this very early stage — is not better, because design is not a field for the Wisdom of the Crowds. Sign up for AppSumo 's daily deals specifically for web geeks & entrepreneurs. ” More than 15 and you’ll have too many voices not converging on simple truths.

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Smart Bear Live 7: More from AZ Disruptors

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

And that’s really important for an early stage start-up to be able to move as fast as possible etc., But it is difficult to ask, and that’s one of the things that, as an entrepreneur, you have to sort of get over the hurdle that you have to get over. And of course there’s the usual pros and cons right?

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Which is better: Many customers at low price-point or few at high price?

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Pivotability Nowadays everyone agrees that it’s both likely and healthy for an early-stage startup to be on the lookout for an intelligent pivot. Sign up for AppSumo 's daily deals specifically for web geeks & entrepreneurs. Now leave a comment about your choice! Did you have other considerations as well?

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Episode 3: Smart Bear Live!

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

If someone wants to become an entrepreneur, is it more important to keep looking for a really good media idea that you can do a month’s worth of customer development on or is it better to think of literally what complete start up can I make in a week? Michael: Well, I’m very in the early stage, and my question reflects that.

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How to get attention from internet celebrities

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

As you’d guess, I can’t do it, as much as I love to chat about startups, by which I mean swapping wisdom with fellow entrepreneurs, by which I mean stoke my ego by telling strangers what to do with neither repercussion nor responsibility. Most of the email is truly spam. But even for the legit stuff, the problem is time.

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