A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

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Refutation: An acquisition is always a failure

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Oh how the media loves superlatives (but only because that’s what we click on and share). Or the hundreds of small companies who weren’t “killing it” as much as their hype and Twitter feeds suggested, but who now are on solid teams with nice stock options in successful tech companies?

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Should this startup exist? Converting 5W’s into existential justification

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Social Media makes group-games viral. Not for the stock options — you won’t be doling out 1% of the company to anyone by then. ” Something happened in the world that removed the last blocker. Smart phones (with internet and GPS and maps) at sufficient consumer penetration make Uber and Lyft possible.