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

product that barely worked, no sales organization (except tech support, which often works better anyway ), and I just hoped they’d run a credit card. The contract says you retain the IP and are allowed to sell a product like this to other companies. And why do you think they’ll then buy the product?

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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 if it were easy to break in with a product for the music industry, which is sort of like, “I got a game. But they had the exact same problem. It’s hard.

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Smart Bear Live 6: Jared from Padseeker.com

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Based on the conversations that I’ve had, where someone spent $5,000 on a website say five years ago, and whether they have Google Maps or not, the whole idea of getting a better website or getting a better product, that’s not something they want to do. Or at least – maybe it’s not a whole other product.

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