A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 4, 2011

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. Yet, I am confident that unlike the startup I observed at the incubator, the damage — beside the unavoidable loss of talent and experience — will be minimal.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 6, 2012

Those companies still incubating their offering can pivot before they launch, incorporating your best ideas and adding their own, releasing just months after you do. Other people can copy almost anything, and they have every advantage — more money, more manpower, more experience in the market, and existing customers to commiserate with.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 16, 2010

He's is biased, of course, because he leads the 200+ company Y-Combinator incubator, but his predictions have already come true for many founders I know personally. All this is explained in clear detail in Paul Graham's his piece on the future of tech investing — a must-read for anyone interested in financing.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

So Member Desk is actually an AC disruptors company, that incubator that we have going here. But in music and film, I’m not sure I know people who just break into music and don’t know anybody and have no ends. That’s a tough one. Hamid, do you have any insight in this? Hamid: It’s kind of interesting.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Mel went through the Tech Stars Incubator in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Momentum and she had, and she also did some Toast Master stuff with me, so I had remembered this wonderful Toast Master’s moment. Patrick: Can I jump in here? Her closing line was literally, ‘You can’t stop us but if you want to join us blank, blank, blank.’

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