A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

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“Fantastic” beats “efficient”

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Easy to attract passionate employees. The IP attorneys would say that we’re bleeding assets, but what we’re actually doing is earning the respect, attention, and sometimes even love from the entire WordPress community. It has the ring of loyalty and delight.

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Smart Bear Live 7: More from AZ Disruptors

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

They now do extra- merchandise so fan selling other fans merchandise that they made but this time with IP rights and everybody makes money, which is pretty cool. I’m actually very fortunate because I’ve had the same employees pretty much since day one. But they had the exact same problem.

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Smart Bear Live 6: Jared from Padseeker.com

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

So probably what you’re looking at, assuming the high end of what you’re talking about cost- wise, you’re probably making something like $5,000 to $8,000 grand a month for yourself assuming you have no other employees. You’re still doing all this yourself. Is that the case? Jared: Yeah. Jason: So is that okay?

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