A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

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How to find that first big customer

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

The contract says you retain the IP and are allowed to sell a product like this to other companies. Either of the following scenarios makes sense for a new startup going after a large-scale enterprise market: You’ve identified a deep pain at a large company. You land a contract to build them the solution.

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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.

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WordPress Page Caching Faster than Light — @WPEngine releases TachyCache

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

In a joint venture with CERN, WP Engine has developed a TCP/IP layer on top of a faster-than-light neutrino beam, delivering page content in negative time. Today WP Engine proudly announces a new WordPress page-caching technology which actually delivers pages before the user clicks the link!

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Smart Bear Live 7: More from AZ Disruptors

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

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. But they had the exact same problem. That they had to sell the band on it. One thing I learned from there, is that the manager is the first step.

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Smart Bear Live 6: Jared from Padseeker.com

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Jared: Yeah, and that’s the thing is the whole idea of having multiple domains pointing to the same IP address. Jason: So, if you tackle a big, new development project, which of course this is, a long-term, big, new development project, you always take the risky stuff and do it first, right?

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