A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
DECEMBER 21, 2009
What follows is your startup therapy session. Need to have your arms around company finances but hate bookkeeping? That's where this article comes in: To splash cold water on your face, forcing you to face reality and continue to defend or change the important choices inside your business. Which of your business operations do you hate?
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
JANUARY 4, 2018
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. This week we closed $250M in financing from Silver Lake , the premier technology private equity firm.
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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
AUGUST 9, 2010
This is Part 3 of the series: 5 lessons from 150 startup pitches.? Of hundreds of startup pitches at Capital Factory , almost none had unearthed 10 people willing to say, "If you build this product, I'll give you $X.". Aren't you sick of every startup blogger on Earth badgering you about this? Short-sighted, no?
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
SEPTEMBER 5, 2018
We all know that startups should make decisions quickly. The benefit is that we work together for a common goal, taking care of the needs of support, sales, marketing, engineering, product, and even finance, rather than solving for one department’s goals at the expense of another.
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
APRIL 24, 2012
This is part of an ongoing startup advice series where I answer (anonymized!) Employee-Investor writes: I’ve been invited to join as startup as employee #1. Of course the value of working at a startup isn’t just financial. questions from readers, like a written version of Smart Bear Live.
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
OCTOBER 13, 2015
This is the perennial question for startups who have started to taste success, and are ready to invest in themselves in the form of new helping hands. You could keep going with other roles — design, content-marketing, finance, data analysis, social media, biz dev, etc. Typically, one of these is a clear winner.
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
JANUARY 10, 2012
Almost no startup founder values her time properly. ” When a consultant intentionally doesn’t work for an hour — whether to be with family or to work on a new startup — they’re clearly giving up an hour of potential earnings. .” But when you’re in a startup, the math is completely different.
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