A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

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Smart Bear Live 8: Edwin from MeetingKing.com

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Listen to this episode if you want to hear about a founder who has a product and users and paying customers … and is trying to figure out how to take his company to the next level and grow faster. Edwin: No, I do think, and I realize that very much, that if I were to take venture capital, the whole game changes.

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How to simplify complex decisions by cleaving the facts

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

The same is true of startup founders themselves, where it’s your job to fill the company with people much better than you at every position. With leaders, however, it’s widely accepted that you should hire based on their exceptional strengths, and then fill in weaknesses using the composition of the rest of the team.