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

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. The contract says you retain the IP and are allowed to sell a product like this to other companies. You land a contract to build them the solution.

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“Fantastic” beats “efficient”

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

If word-of-mouth can replace 90% of your advertising/marketing budget, maybe you can use that money to address the challenges of extra expenses. 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.

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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. So Leon and I have met numerous times, about marketing strategy and the music one is that developed after Chicago became a customer. But they had the exact same problem.

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Smart Bear Live 6: Jared from Padseeker.com

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

I think that our biggest, our easiest group of people to target or market to are people who. Jared: The ability to market their properties better as opposed to the way. Like, if this does start growing, you can afford to do whatever like hire someone else to help on-board people, or spend more money on marketing, or I don’t know.

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