A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

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LARGE x RARE == DIFFERENT: Why scaling companies is harder than it looks

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Not to mention 10 minor incidents with degraded performance, or a DDoS attack somewhere in the data center affecting our network traffic, or some other thing that sets pagers a-buzzing in our Tech Ops team and mobilizes our Customer Support team to notify and help customers. ” But some things you can’t automate.

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Austin in San Francisco

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

When people can devise their own lifestyle, career, and mobility more than at any other time in history, it’s interesting to ask how a startup can support and encourage its employees beyond a paycheck. the most online-visible person at WP Engine.

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Trends: Follow or flee?

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Mobile device usage will increase. “Old Media” will be consumed less. Surely building a story around a “geo-mobile app with viral social gaming” stacks the funding deck in your favor. How much should you care about “trends?” ” A lot of predictions are easy. Attention spans will shrink.

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Episode 3b: Smart Bear Live!

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

There’s hundreds, upon hundreds, well now that we’re mobile, 1000s upon 1000s of GTD applications out there. And I think you need to disabuse yourself from the on-line media definition of success for a start-up. What is a CRM for the people in Gmail that we want to have as our customers is the other end of the road.

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