A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

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“She doesn’t deserve to be alive”

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

David Heinemeier Hansson doesn’t deserve to be alive either for instance — he makes millions of dollars at his bootstrapped, profitable, beloved business , he’s honored by geeks for creating Ruby on Rails , he’s a New York Times best-selling author and a race car driver, and all this with a 30-hour work-week.

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An Experiment with Guest Posts

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

I don't care if the guest has 4 RSS subscribers or 4 New York Times best-selling books. Tags: Announcements Guest Posts blogging social media writing. There's no sense in a guest-post that completely I agree with — I can just write that myself! Thoughtful counter-arguments help all of us think and learn.

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Guest post round-up

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Andrew Warner, the interview host, summarized it well: "My hands were trembling as I was faxing eighty pages of the agreement over to the lawyers in New York City," Jason Cohen said about what it was like to finalize the sale of the company he founded, Smart Bear. How a smart bear built a company so he could sell it (Video).

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Rise and fall: Three Lessons for Entrepreneurs

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

My father was raised in Brownsville , a poor section of Brooklyn, New York. Gary Vaynerchuk (the founder of Wine Library TV and the so-called " Social Media Sommelier ") made a similar point in a speech at the Web 2.0 I am sharing this personal story to help entrepreneurs. Setting the stage.

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Uncommon Interview: Finding Fulfillment with Good Company

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

On the other side of this radio interview are Adelaide Lancaster and Amy Abrams , both founders of their own startups, both coaches and mentors to dozens of other startups over the years, and who together created and still run the In Good Company co-working space for women entrepreneurs in New York City. They’re really neat.

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How do I get my first few customers?

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Marketing, advertising, positioning — they’re all forms of persuasive writing, just like an op-ed in the New York Times. There’s all the startup marketing ideas you’d expect: Adverts, split-tests, media splashes, networking, pitch-competitions, inside baseball, creative stunts, SxSW launches, you name it.

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Episode 3b: Smart Bear Live!

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Jason: It’s Adelaide and Amy, two women who have a co-working space in New York specifically for women entrepreneurs. And I think you need to disabuse yourself from the on-line media definition of success for a start-up. Women In Good Company. Is that what you said? Jason: No, it’s just called ingoodcompany.com.

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