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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How should a startup founder value her time?

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Almost no startup founder values her time properly. Sign up for AppSumo 's daily deals specifically for web geeks & entrepreneurs. Consultants know exactly what their time is worth: their hourly rate. As they say, it’s how much “the market will bear.” It means you should obsess about doubling your productivity.

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Improving the worst experience

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

The visual bug tracker for web developers & designers. We founders unwittingly focus on how to make the best customer experiences better , rather than making the worst experiences less worse , and sometimes this is a mistake. Sign up for AppSumo 's daily deals specifically for web geeks & entrepreneurs. Tweet. -->.

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Special Edition: Smart Bear Live!

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

This episode was expertly co-hosted by Joshua Baer , founder of OtherInbox , progenitor of Capital Factory , angel investor , and previous founder of SKYLIST and UnsubCentral, both sold. Sign up for AppSumo 's daily deals specifically for web geeks & entrepreneurs.

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10 things I’ve never heard a successful startup founder say

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Sign up for AppSumo 's daily deals specifically for web geeks & entrepreneurs. I wish I had spent more time reading and weighing the pros and cons of various philosophies instead of just jumping in and doing what I thought was morally and financially sensible. Let’s collect more in the comments !

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The Code is your Enemy

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

As much as you’re a minor deity when it comes to TextMate or Balsamiq, so are almost all the technical founders of all high-tech startups. The trouble is, this is almost certainly not the activity that would most benefit your startup. We can all make a functional website — at least well enough to produce orders.

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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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