A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

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No, that IS NOT a competitive advantage

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

In all the interviews you've read about founders' success, how many credit their MBA program? And even you could work 70 on-task hours per week, that's still blown away by 10 developers at a funded company or even 10 passionate open source developers working part-time. How many even have MBAs? We work hard. We're cheaper.

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Real Unfair Advantages

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

No, wait, I'm sorry, the real question is: What are you going to do when there are four totally free, open-source competitors? Indeed, most of the innovations we've made at Smart Bear in the art of code review have already been duplicated by both commercial and open-source competitors. The Dream Team.

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The unfortunate math behind consulting companies

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Oh sure, founders work 60-80-hour weeks, but not employees. Maybe that means going to a conference or two, or working on an open-source project, or instituting “10% time&# at work (like Google’s 20% time but more reasonable for those of us who don’t have billions in profit from a cash-cow).

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