A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

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Rise and fall: Three Lessons for Entrepreneurs

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Thanks to Walker Corporate Law Group , a boutique law firm specializing in the representation of entrepreneurs, for supporting A Smart Bear this month. I am sharing this personal story to help entrepreneurs. Unfortunately, many entrepreneurs today are looking for the quick home-run — the lottery ticket. Setting the stage.

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WP Engine passes $100M in revenue and secures $250M investment from Silver Lake

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

The Silicon Valley-oriented technology press outlets don’t cover us because we’re not in San Francisco, even though we’re more successful than most of the startups they cover. It’s the heroin-hit that hooks the entrepreneur. (The After the success of Smart Bear, I should be setting my sights on something big, not this.

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

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Dan: My question is related to all this talk that I hear in the Silicon Valley about Internet scale. Trying to figure out how the Silicon Valley… again, my last venture was not built here. Mark: But Dan, I want to say, your language, you have to be careful about not coming across as a grumpy entrepreneur.

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Killer articles on startups

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

6 Simple Selling Tips For Software Entrepreneurs [link] (from OnStartups). 6 Simple Selling Tips For Software Entrepreneurs. US Economic Risks (Sept 2010): Impact on Investors & Entrepreneurs [link]. US Economic Risks (Sept 2010): Impact on Investors & Entrepreneurs | Both Sides of the Table.