A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

In the next 10 years: There will be another “surprising” Black Swan financial market event. Even so, venture capital has a horrible record in the past ten years — most funds don’t make good money. How much should you care about “trends?” ” A lot of predictions are easy.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

On the other hand, it’s a whole universe and you’d need an interesting perspective on why you should go attack that market and face all that competition and noise and everything that’s in the market. So when you’re thinking about marketing positioning to me, that side of it is the interesting side of it.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 24, 2012

With the exception of Facebook and Twitter, it seems like this magic 10 million user number is a rare benchmark that companies hit, and yet that’s only 10% of the mobile market. It’s a fraction of the overall Internet market. of companies should never raise venture capital. Let me say this to you.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

Examples: how a market will evolve, what competitors are investing in, whether new marketing campaigns will be successful, or how an important new hire will perform. For example, take the decision “should we build feature X:” If we add feature X, we will be unique in the market.

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