A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

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Trends: Follow or flee?

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Even so, venture capital has a horrible record in the past ten years — most funds don’t make good money. For the entrepreneur, there’s no secret. Sign up for AppSumo 's daily deals specifically for web geeks & entrepreneurs. Still, enough do, and a small subset are able to do it consistently.

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

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Mark: But Dan, I want to say, your language, you have to be careful about not coming across as a grumpy entrepreneur. of companies should never raise venture capital. Venture capital, it’s a very particular industry. ” But every entrepreneur I saw on the ground in LA here was massively trending up.

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Smart Bear Live 8: Edwin from MeetingKing.com

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Welcome back to Smart Bear Live … the show were Jason speaks with entrepreneurs looking to improve their businesses. But assuming it’s a fair exit, a venture capitalist, and I’m explicitly not saying angel because we could talk about angel and they’re sort of special so that might work out.