A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

What’s the secret to manufacturing this combination of foresight, timing, and financing? Even so, venture capital has a horrible record in the past ten years — most funds don’t make good money. For the institutional investor, it’s a set of bets.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

You have your general management meeting and in your general management meeting you talk about product development, about marketing and about finance. 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.