A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

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Trends: Follow or flee?

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Mobile device usage will increase. Surely building a story around a “geo-mobile app with viral social gaming” stacks the funding deck in your favor. 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?”

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Smart Bear Live 5: Dan from SyncBloc.com with Mark Suster

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Dan: Our goal is really to get beyond search social and the inefficiencies that search social and mobile have introduced to us. 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. What is it?