A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

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“Fantastic” beats “efficient”

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

The IP attorneys would say that we’re bleeding assets, but what we’re actually doing is earning the respect, attention, and sometimes even love from the entire WordPress community. We build our own WordPress plugins and make them open-source and free. But already we’re seeing the side-effects of some of those benefits above.

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Smart Bear Live 7: More from AZ Disruptors

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

They now do extra- merchandise so fan selling other fans merchandise that they made but this time with IP rights and everybody makes money, which is pretty cool. So you can hire one more person. But they had the exact same problem. That they had to sell the band on it. I mean… Hamid: It’ll turn back on in just.

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Smart Bear Live 6: Jared from Padseeker.com

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Like, if this does start growing, you can afford to do whatever like hire someone else to help on-board people, or spend more money on marketing, or I don’t know. Jared: Yeah, and that’s the thing is the whole idea of having multiple domains pointing to the same IP address. You can hire people. Jared: Yeah.

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