A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

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Why your company should have a single email address

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Yet, when it comes to email management, most companies seems to adopt a somewhat broken posture: either they don’t advertise any public email or they advertise too many of them. He has a personal blog about cloud computing. Despite experts routinely claiming Email 1.0 will soon be replaced by their own Email 2.0 ; Email 1.0

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Hiring Employee #1

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

How do you manage that, especially when you’re small? You’re hiring a friend, a trusted partner, someone you’ll be spending 10 hours a day with for the foreseeable future. You’re not hiring a Systems Engineer III for IBM or a Senior Regional Sales Manager for Dell. Attend local meet-ups and user groups.

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Startup Therapy: Ten questions to ask yourself every month

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Second, you know the length of your fuse even in event of disaster (if you have revenue) or if you never manage to land a customer (if you're just starting out). It could be a new partner willing to work for stock. The first thing this does is force you to nail down your monthly expenses and accounts payable. It could be an intern.

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Why startup biz dev deals almost never get done

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

To see exactly how this works, let’s use an example from my own company, the largest managed WordPress hosting platform. The problem is that the amount of revenue is not interesting for the big company, yet it requires the big company to spend something not accounted for in the above equation: reputation.

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Smart Bear Live 8: Edwin from MeetingKing.com

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

And when you look at the tools that we use, I mean we’ve made so many technological advances, but really to manage a meeting there’s not a practical tool available. We use email; we use Word; we use task manager; we use a file sharing tool. They are so happy that they finally have a tool to manage their business.

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Episode 3: Smart Bear Live!

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

It helps you manage, at first a checking account, is where the name came from, through text messaging. Because one of the most important things for me is that it helps me to communicate with the other person that I manage my money with, who’s also spending out of those same accounts, my wife. Ryan: No that’s great advice.

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Permission Follow-Up

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

This is a guest post by Jarie Bolander, author of Frustration Free Technical Management and a moderator at Answers OnStartups. It’s hard to get rejected by a customer or partner, or even a stranger. Yeah, but unfortunately you do have to rely on others to respond to emails and phone calls.

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