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. Small companies operate this way by necessity, and it works!
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
FEBRUARY 26, 2013
Are you OK releasing control in day-to-day operations to managers, and then releasing control of the managers to your executive team? I didn’t want to manage managers or figure out what changes, strategies, hirings, products, marketing, and sales were needed to make $100m/year.
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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
FEBRUARY 26, 2019
Either you haven’t hired great talent, or you have but you’re disempowering them. “New role” can mean sophistication, management, or a different job. If you haven’t operated at the executive level at a scaling startup, you don’t appreciate how different and difficult it is. Operate on cash-basis.
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
DECEMBER 21, 2009
Second, you know the length of your fuse even in event of disaster (if you have revenue) or if you never manage to land a customer (if you're just starting out). If you were forced to hire someone today, how would you define her job such that she would contribute enough revenue to cover her expense? It could be a part-time consultant.
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. Yes, except if you don’t listen to what customers are telling you to do, you’ll build a product no one wants to use.
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.
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. You don’t exit at north of a billion dollars unless you’re operating at scale. What would they say it is?
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