A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

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Why your company should have a single email address

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

This guest-post is from Joannes Vermorel, founder of Lokad which produces sales forecasts for off-line companies. At the same time, I personally observed at the startup incubator of Telecom ParisTech the impact of one co-founder leaving his company after 18 months. He has a personal blog about cloud computing. is here to stay.

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Smart Bear Live 7: More from AZ Disruptors

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

The way Bitvibe broke in is that the co-founder is the drummer for several really big bands that you’ve heard of from the 80′s and right now he’s in Gregg Rollie Band. But the answer is the co-founder’s been in the industry for 30 years and he’s somebody and so they can get meetings. Interviewee: Right.

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If you saw your competitor’s roadmap would it matter?

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Almost all founders I encounter are leery about discussing their product plans. Those companies still incubating their offering can pivot before they launch, incorporating your best ideas and adding their own, releasing just months after you do. Don’t VCs do that? It’s silly, for two reasons.

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A vote for me is a vote for dipshit businesses everywhere

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

The real reason they're pissed is that VCs are increasingly unnecessary to get companies started , both because of inexpensive technology and marketing channels and because there are enough angel investors that founders don't have to sell the entire farm for ridiculous amounts of cash they don't really need. But founders often win.

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Episode 3b: Smart Bear Live!

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

What does it mean to have a co-founder or not? Jason: First of all, the happiest, most fulfilled founders I’ve ever met have life style businesses. You’re one of those people that think you’re free because you’re a founder except you’re not because you’re indebted to all those people.

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