A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

APRIL 25, 2017

Examples: To determine whether a person might be a good manager, you don’t want to start with your first impression. The right way is to ask yourself “what are the attributes of a great manager,” ( this list for example ), then seek to understand whether a person exhibits those attributes. Question: What went wrong?

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 22, 2013

A great manager who develops the careers of their folks versus several average ones who are glorified project managers. A product manager driving consistent, brilliant output driven by salability instead of under-the-hood technical gymnastics. A great writer (content marketing, social media) versus 100 average bloggers.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

One thing I learned from there, is that the manager is the first step. And B,The manager often is the one controlling how the money works. So, if the manager’s on board, you’re probably going to start and if not, you’re don’t regardless of the band. So the manager, that’s one thing.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 4, 2017

By which they mean: Without stupid rules that assume employees are dumb or evil, without everything taking ten times longer than it should, without wall-to-wall meetings, without resorting to hiring anything less than the top 1% of the talent pool, and so on. It’s a big reason why they move quickly. Recruiting.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

And when you look at the tools that we use, I mean we’ve made so many technological advances, but really to manage a meeting there’s not a practical tool available. We use email; we use Word; we use task manager; we use a file sharing tool. They are so happy that they finally have a tool to manage their business.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

DECEMBER 18, 2012

I know a startup founder who likes hiring parents because they understand time-management and the importance of being present in the moment. (We put up with colic for 3 months and it was hell, but that doesn’t necessarily mean I can calm a disgruntled customer over ZenDesk.) But there are useful skills.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

I came back with these three ideas: 1) Manager behind desk to applicant – “Your resume says you’re distractible, you like to gossip, and you sometimes oversleep? You’re hired!” ” 5) Management type in meeting to employees – “Honesty is big right now. See how we can spin that.”

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

You can’t just hire three more fantastic developers to create a robust engineering team, and you can’t just snap your fingers and find three new efficient, productive marketing channels. Only tackle one or two things at a time — you have to manage risk, not pretend that you can eliminate all of it at once.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 8, 2010

If managed improperly, you're unnecessarily risking lawsuits and worse. You can't afford to hire three developers to add features and bugs. Time management is critical. I'm naturally awful at personal time management. You just need to give up all your free time which, if you've caught the "founders" bug, is A-OK with you.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

APRIL 15, 2014

My daily life consists of (a) setting the strategy and rationale of the Engineering & Innovation department, based on a mixture of vision, data, and the needs of the rest of the company, (b) participate in doing the same for the whole company, (c) hire, (d) manage the managers whose teams execute the real work.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 8, 2012

Jared: Yeah, I think initially the real focus of Padseeker is going to be an on-demand solution to create a website for property management. I mean, imagine, in an abstract sense, how you might download, say, WordPress, and you’re doing that for content management, or for a blog. So it’s property management software?

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 30, 2010

A virtual assistant (VA) is a remote worker hired to complete tasks you should not be doing as the founder of a startup. These hiring arrangements are described below: Task-based — ($3-10/hour overseas, $12-50/hour in the U.S.) If your VA is self-managing, you can lay out tasks a month at a time. Step1: Finding a VA.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 28, 2014

It’s when you look across the entire company, and the non-linear additional effort it takes to not just improve the average experience, but to manage the worst-case experience, that you appreciate the difficulties. Does that give high-scale companies like WP Engine an excuse to have problems?

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

It helps you manage, at first a checking account, is where the name came from, through text messaging. Because one of the most important things for me is that it helps me to communicate with the other person that I manage my money with, who’s also spending out of those same accounts, my wife.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

APRIL 25, 2011

Maybe that means a big new advertising campaign, or hiring another WordPress expert for our staff. So we’ve said “yes&# by quoting high enough that we know for certain we will make good money on the deal, so much so that it will partially fund something else we want to do. At Smart Bear I used this principle yet again.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MAY 17, 2010

Well, at least without the usual definition of "sales" — a collection of processes, personalities, and management single-mindedly focussed on hauling in revenue on a quarterly schedule. Apparently tech support is a better "social media outreach" program than hiring interns to spray comments on random blogs. Are you surprised?

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 24, 2012

It’s rich contact management, event planning, notification services, and task management, but at the family level. We’ve got amazing calendar tools, we’ve got contact management tools. Then we hired two people and got profitable again in another six months. I wanted someone to manage all that.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

But we managed to grow a few customers, so that’s good, in spite of the name. Noel: So we been looking on enterprise power management tool. We been managing the field by plan more than 75 enterprise customers and channel partners. We been managing the field by plan more than 75 enterprise customers and channel partners.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

DECEMBER 28, 2011

She’s in business for over 10 years and she’s been able to pursue this hobby of her’s and it’s a huge part of her life while growing a very successful business that is very manageable and has kept her very satisfied and happy. ’ On top of that, she actually needed to be flexible with her spouse.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Maybe hire an employee for $30 per hour and re-bill them at $60. Suppose you hire an employee at $60,000/year. After all, if you expect to hire and retain great people, they need time to keep learning, stay in front of the latest technology, and just have fun. Easy money, right? Double is nothing. Isn’t that better?

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 2, 2013

Never mind managing consultants or employees! If you hire employees, are you not responsible to them? Get eight of those and you’ll be lucky to be in the coding zone once a month. Not to worry, the escorts don’t love the work either. If you have a co-founder, are you not responsible to her as well?

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JUNE 20, 2011

Even if you’ve managed to scrape together ten million dollars of revenue over the past five years, that’s still just a drop in the bucket, irrelevant, not worth their time. Salesforce.com recently bought Heroku for $250m because the latter controlled fully-managed Ruby on Rails deployments. To hire key employees.

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