A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

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Hiring Employee #1

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

So e.g. “java programmer job in austin tx,” not something impossible like “java programmer.” That is, people who are good but just weren’t a fit for that company. Try to get your “Jobs” page to rank well in local-only search.

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Telling the 800-lb Gorilla to Shove it up his Ass

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Can you imagine a tool from Microsoft that supported ClearCase, ran inside Eclipse, and had excellent support for Java?). But we know that any code review tool from Microsoft would work only with their own version control system and only inside Visual Studio. Well that still leaves every other market on Earth.

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Never say “no,” but rarely say “yes.”

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

They had just completed a new product written in Java and it was broken on a Mac, and could I help? Java was new and known to be full of bugs, and anyway I was a C/C++ kind of guy, and I didn’t want to get involved in an academic fad language like Java. Yay investors!). I wanted no part of this.

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Scars

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

” It’s the developer who is sure that “Java sucks.” .” It’s the founder who says she doesn’t need to talk to customers before embarking on a $100,000 development project because “my customers are idiots.” ” Scars are part of what make us unique. I like scars. I want to remember.