A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

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Smart Bear Live 8: Edwin from MeetingKing.com

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

In other words, if I’m thinking about this just from a WP Engine perspective for a second as a potential customer, when you come up to me and say, “Meetings are awful because half of them don’t even have an agenda, and the ones that do, you don’t stick to it and they go long. Jason: Yeah. I already write agendas.

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Smart Bear Live 5: Dan from SyncBloc.com with Mark Suster

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

of companies should never raise venture capital. Venture capital, it’s a very particular industry. In fact, that’s exactly what happened to me with WordPress Engine. Mark: Let me start with a disclosure, which is I am a very happy user of WP Engine. Let me say this to you. 99%, maybe 99.8%

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How to simplify complex decisions by cleaving the facts

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

But I’ve seen little startups, mid-sized companies like WP Engine, and large companies struggle with complexity in decisions even in conditions of relative certainty. Examples: how a market will evolve, what competitors are investing in, whether new marketing campaigns will be successful, or how an important new hire will perform.