A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Freshman Salesman writes: I’ve read somewhere in your blog about how you had a very large organisation as the first customer for your software. How you convinced them to pay up when code review at that stage was nonexistent? The contract says you retain the IP and are allowed to sell a product like this to other companies.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 26, 2016

Software defined networking (SDN) and the Internet of Things (IoT) are key technology trends sure to affect the future of networking. What follows is an outline of the core challenges each of these trends presents and suggestions on how network engineers can overcome them. By Leon Adato, Head Geek, SolarWinds. The first is security.

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ConversionXL

JULY 3, 2020

Search engines are vital for discoverability. Google’s Public Search Liaison Danny Sullivan has openly pushed back against those who want subscription-only content flagged in search results: Our automated systems try to present the best information in relation to a search topic, as people expect us to do as a search engine.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

This is why investors really like SaaS software companies where you have recurring revenue and your largest customer accounts for < 5% of your revenue and your renewals rates are > 90%. Many software companies have > 80% gross margins which is why they are more valuable than say traditional retailers or consumer product companies.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Knowbella Tech is an open science collaboration company that uses blockchain to deliver free tools, services, grants, and intellectual properties (IP) to researchers, particularly the underserved in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Knowbella founder Jason Barkeloo answered some questions about his company. What is your competitive advantage?

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David Teten

MARCH 14, 2018

– Templatize the entrepreneurial process , by providing checklists, standardized agreements and other reusable code. The firm attracts deal flow by promising a decision (positive or negative) in under 2 weeks, with minimal paperwork and without repeating due diligence. engineers, designers, business developers).

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ConversionXL

APRIL 18, 2019

A page that’s well-matched for user intent can outperform those that optimize primarily for search engines—in search and after the click. The initial consumer research that starts with “coffee grinder” may yield follow-up queries like “conical burr grinder reviews” as the searcher progresses toward a purchase. Geography (i.e.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 20, 2015

For 71% it became more important over the past five years due to an increase in the time spent using applications, coupled with an increase in their workload and more demanding deadlines. Why: Small, portable versions of full-blown applications allow users to run software on otherwise-locked- down Citrix desktops or library computers.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 4, 2020

This post covers discrepancies between Google Analytics and your: CRM, CMS, accounting, or other back-end software. Data discrepancies between Google Analytics and a CRM, CMS, accounting, or other back-end software. Thank you pages” for lead forms are often generic—and, by default, set to be indexed by search engines.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 1, 2020

Several “experts” in marketing and advertising, and IP lawyers, tried to talk me into changing it. So if you were to use Google or any other search engine, your name would be lost in the crowd. I got an engineering degree and worked on various entrepreneurial projects but my heart was always in data science and analytics.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 24, 2012

The second category is composed of companies that have developed a unique IP locally and marketed it worldwide - typically in the gaming, software, security or mobile sectors. They found that a large part of the accidents were due to random objects falling from trucks on the road.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 20, 2019

Choosing the right account-based marketing software can be a messy process. Some ABM software is an add-on to an existing tool. Some companies sell relevant software but not explicitly for ABM. Software can help with each: Identify the right accounts and targets within them. Measure how they respond. Image source ).

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eranki.tumblr.com

JULY 13, 2012

any real-world engineering project ;-). If there is a way to do this, it would also be cool to have markings on the graph that point to events you can annotate such as code push, or AWS outage. It’s almost a way of randomly tracing your code. Run with extra load. Poor man’s analytics with bash.

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Scalable Startup

JANUARY 15, 2015

I’m a startup growth consultant who started a digital marketing + web development agency due to such high demand from my startup clients. Work directly with engineers, no company involved. Hire them 8 hours at a time and review daily by skype, g hangout. Also, it is not about the engineering talent only!

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

Make your choices only after you’ve done some due diligence with other companies where they’ve served. I’m never surprised when I see product development driven by engineers proceeding at top speed developing the next cool thing. One of my engineers once told me my favorite color was plaid. Don’t be the plaid guy.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

So, Google (and other search engines) are highly unlikely to penalize for A/B testing. Search engines don’t penalize them because that unique content is only found on their domain and no where else. Treat Googlebot just like any other user and don’t hard-code our user-agent or IP address.”. Image Source.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 5, 2022

A four-time tech entrepreneur, his most recent company Immersion Neuroscience is a software platform that allows anyone to measure what the brain loves in real-time to improve outcomes in entertainment, education and training, advertising, and live events. Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! Like this show?

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Rate limiters govern the frequency or quantity of user or IP requests, which helps to prevent distributed denial of service attacks. It should include doing background checks and reviewing their security rules and practices. Secure Code and Encryption The code is crucial for application security.

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Occam's Razor

JUNE 25, 2012

Information like IP address, the page requested, time stamps, browser ids and more are stored. These server logs can then be used to do basic reporting using off the shelf software. They are more often rejected due to default browser settings, user choices, cookie cleaners, etc. This is quite inadvisable.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Direct traffic is a fantastic segment to analyze because it contains desirable Visitors and yet because it is often polluted (due to our own inability to implement web analytics tools correctly). If you are a little bit tech savvy then go get REL Software's Web Link Validator, it's pretty good. Click edit on your bookmark.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 27, 2010

When Marc Cenedella first started TheLadders, he build the first version himself after investing $350 in MySQL and PHP books to teach himself to code. Undoubtedly the code sucked, but at least he got something up and running. What ever happened to “build it”? 2) Eliminate the friction by empowering your people.

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Scalable Startup

MARCH 7, 2012

Investor groups are cutting out the management, bus dev, sales, and marketing professionals, trying to get raw, young engineering teams that have never negotiated a term sheet to give away their IP rights and equity for next to nothing. The signal to noise ratio continues to degrade, but it’s actually moving into the next phase.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Obviously, that makes them a great place to cross-promote, upsell, encourage sharing / reviews / referrals, etc. In addition, the social sharing buttons at the top create a built-in growth engine / viral loop. Set expectations about how long the review or survey will take. Use a dedicated IP for transactional emails.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

In 1999, David Weinberger, a technologist and co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto , wrote, “Personalization: the automatic tailoring of sites and messages to the individuals viewing them so that we can feel that somewhere there’s a piece of software that loves us for who we are.” Good(ish) Example: Netflix.

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mashable.com

MAY 28, 2010

Johnson also says that search engine issues have affected the style of names. Amidst all the search engine and domain name drama, consider that names are memorable when they sound good. Parrot AR Drone Review [VIDEO] View More » Web Video Local FOX Station Airs Hilarious Soci. He says that intentional Web 2.0 Is It Sticky?

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Note the Harvard Business Review article on “The Little Jobs-Creating Agency You’ve Never Heard Of” We have zero Budgetary Authority (i.e., Kappos: The patent code is not the tax code—it should not be modified often. We want to enable people to buy & sell IP in the same way that buy & sell cars.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 25, 2017

Although the rendering engines and computer vision are rather mature, we’re still years away in terms of packaging all of this in a sleek glasses-like form factor. It’s been widely reported that Apple has had hundreds of engineers working on AR and VR for some time. But we’re a long way away from this dream.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 22, 2019

In other words, if you’re trying to check on results and track results, sometimes it’s a little challenging if your IP address is in Kansas City, Missouri. You’d go look at a website and you’d look at the source code and you’d go what is all this stuff? What’s the best way to localize results?

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news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

His friends at General Electric said he was wasting his time on the gas combustion engine because the world was going electric. -- ErrantX 215 days ago | link. The story of the v-8 engine is a bit different. We not only told everyone what we did, we posted the source code and the blueprints online. From "Think and Grow Rich".

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

He even has degrees in Electrical Engineering and Mandarin Chinese. In addition to founding and running my own patent and trademark law firm, Miller IP Law, he is the co-founder of several startups including a multi-million dollar startup for wearable glucose monitoring. Miller IP Law Website. Like this show?

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

The web is littered with re-worded explanations, so rather than spilling more ink, here’s one of the better ones : A Progressive Web Application is a software application, written in the Web platform and running in the browser, that behaves like a cloud-delivered native application. Linkability and indexing. Accessibility.

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Their code base had diverged and it was extremely slow and costly for Microsoft to be implementing Word separately for each platform: Windows, DOS and Mac. It also meant that there was great pressure to get the release out so they could start to gain the efficiencies of a single code base. In 1993, Word 6.0 So the team got to work.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

To maximize impact and ensure correct prioritization, the team reviewed the top 10 accounts quarterly. Programmatic ABM: One-to-many accounts marketing that leverages ABM software to tailor and personalize marketing programs for specific named accounts at scale. Tools for IP-targeted ads: MRP ; Terminus.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 8, 2012

Welcome back to Smart Bear Live, the call-in show with Jason Cohen, sponsored by Software Promotions. Don’t forget to sign up for the wonderful Business of Software conference to hear Jason speak in person. So it’s property management software? Our software will do that. I don’t get this.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

This is done by enriching transaction data points such as name, email address, and billing and shipping address with around 2,000 extra data points, such as an IP latency check to measure the real distance from the user, IP connection type, distance between key strokes, and email name match. The company has no public URL yet.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 15, 2020

I love running experiments on my own, and I'm really excited about, I don't really like the term "bio-hacking," but there's a lot of fun and educational biology and chemistry experiments you can do at home like I did some polymer synthesis and some basic yeast genetic engineering. Before that, I was an electronics engineer.

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

” Our featured speaker was Caroline Cummings, the VP of Business Development at Palo Alto Software. Not only because it’s a product that Bplans and Palo Alto software makes, but because before I joined the company, I used LivePlan to pitch and raise my investment capital. Pretend that you are the investor.

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