A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

DECEMBER 16, 2014

” It doesn’t matter whether we’re talking about valuations , growth rates , retention rates , NPS scores, early-stage uncertainty , ratio of revenue to employee, CAC , cash-burn, LTV , gross margin, or selling your company. the darlings of the news media, and this is not a path to finding good answers.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Jason: Because you said premium digital media, so I didn’t get selling music out of that. And that’s really important for an early stage start-up to be able to move as fast as possible etc., Dan: Because you’re not giving it away for free. You want people to pay for it. Jason: Premium means for money.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

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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