A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Sign up for AppSumo 's daily deals specifically for web geeks & entrepreneurs. Includes my favorite articles from around the Internet as well as my own advice that you might not have heard before. Tweet. -->. Here's a load of advice.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

With their new web tool you can collect tweets and snippets, arrange as nicely-formatted collections, then share directly or embed in blog posts as I've done below. Keepstream is one of the five Capital Factory companies graduating today at Demo Day here in Austin. Below is my current checklist for startup businesses in 2010. NeilDavidson.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 18, 2011

It could acquire dot-Canon, and even the generic dot-camera, and could create photo-sharing Web sites grouped within those domains. The Internet has become another critical infrastructure utility. Sign up for AppSumo 's daily deals specifically for web geeks & entrepreneurs.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

DECEMBER 4, 2012

Unique / Interesting Here’s another email I got today: Dear Jason, Based on your commitment to innovation, I’d like to introduce my web startup to you. PRODUCT is an early stage web application that enables content creators to playfully combine multimedia from anywhere on the web through a shared, virtual whiteboard.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MAY 23, 2011

This guest-post was written by Noah Kagan, Chief Sumo of AppSumo.com , the daily deals site for web entrepreneurs. For example, at least ask an interesting question, one that isn’t answered everyone on the Internet, one I haven’t answered in a blog post, one that would be fun to think about. Leave a comment.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 8, 2010

Don't use company property or Internet, for reals. If your project is really yours alone , it cannot be assisted by a company laptop, company software, or company Internet connection. Assume every laptop has a secret program that records all keystrokes, mouse clicks, screen shots, web sites, and emails you read or write.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 24, 2012

Pin It Listen to this episode if you want to learn what a VC investor thinks about “Internet scale” and how you can usually simplify your idea by charging a fair price for your product. Dan: The question is really directed towards the definition of Internet scale. It’s a fraction of the overall Internet market.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 11, 2010

New book: Web Startup Success Guide. Q: You’ve stated that the goal of both your new book ( Web Startup Success Guide ) and your new tool for entrepreneurs ( StartupToDo ) is to double an entrepreneur's chance at success: Increase from 10% to 20%. Podcast: Startup Success. Classic book: Micro-ISV: From Vision to Reality.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

” Introduced a few months ago as an Austin event, I’m now doing this live audio advice column to the web, taking phone calls from startups around the country. And then there’s three relatively new ones that are fast and web based. It’s Episode 3 my little “ Loveline for startups. Jason: Right.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 26, 2016

With the quantity of internet-enabled devices increasing at an accelerated rate for the foreseeable future, we know the answer to that question has to be answered immediately. Taking for a moment a position of pure self-interest on the part of large internet businesses, is it good that foreign nations can disable the Internet at-will?

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 17, 2011

We had a spike in this metric in February at WP Engine when our Internet provider themselves had a datacenter-wide catastrophe which brought us down for twelve hours; of course not all spikes will have such obvious causes. Sign up for AppSumo 's daily deals specifically for web geeks & entrepreneurs. Revisionist history.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 1, 2010

Having nothing but the Web of Lies Internet to rely on for tech support is not free. You: Open-source is free like puppies are free. You don't write a check to get it, but you have to support it for life. Your employee's time is not free. Working around bugs is not free. We answer the phone on the first ring.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The goal was to create a non-boring resource for entrepreneurs centered around a combination of video interviews (RISE.the web show) with successful entrepreneurs, big thinkers and "doers" (as opposed to people that just talk about doing) as well as blog posts, videos and other goodies. Tuesday and Thursday are new web shows/interviews.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

DECEMBER 28, 2011

So, the internet is full of people saying things like, ‘you have to seek happiness not money.’ Sign up for AppSumo 's daily deals specifically for web geeks & entrepreneurs. Adelaide: Sounds good. I’m sure we’ll agree. Jason: Yeah. Well, thanks a lot for being here and I thought it was really interesting.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JUNE 20, 2011

They wanted to control Internet telephony, and Skype was the clear winner. Sign up for AppSumo 's daily deals specifically for web geeks & entrepreneurs. Why did eBay (an online auction house) purchase Skype (an online telephone company) for two billion dollars before Skype had one cent of revenue? Control equals money.

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