A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

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Pick one and own it

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

We're thinking of going open-source — it's free. You: Open-source is free like puppies are free. We do things open-source would never do. Bugs are a reality, and that's when open-source starts to become non-free in a hurry. I know, "most expensive" doesn't automatically imply "best!"

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Intense Asymmetry and Self-Flagellation

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

But it just a few short months of super-charging our marketing efforts at WP Engine for her to start turning herself inside out about her lack of “success,” and by implication, lack of ability and self-worth: WP Engine is killing it right now. And let’s suppose I started WP Engine at the same time. circa 2008.)

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