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. I hope this is sustainable, but is it?

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Smart Bear Live 7: More from AZ Disruptors

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Dan: Member Desk is a hosted membership site software. 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. Dan: That’s pretty decently close, actually. Jason: Right. So what is it really?

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Smart Bear Live 6: Jared from Padseeker.com

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

” and the hosting costs, that’s not even really much of a lifestyle business yet. If you have an individually hosted solution, even if you have an API, how are people going to find you? They want cheaper hosting. And then there’s some hosting costs. Presumably your websites aren’t so bad.

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