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. Sign up for AppSumo 's daily deals specifically for web geeks & entrepreneurs. How much should you care about “trends?” Attention spans will shrink.

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Smart Bear Live 4: Nick from PinfoB.com at AZ Disruptors

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

And so, I guess PinfoB is something that locates where all those things are so that when drivers are going around making their deliveries like UPS, but also other guys, they know where to go, they’ve got it on their mobile devices and it optimizes their routes. That was great.

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Better for whom?

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Older PM tools understood that use-case, but they’re clunky install-only implementations where online collaboration, mobile and even the Mac is a bolt-on afterthought. PM tools were built in the installed- or web-based-eras. My PM tool is best for large, complex projects with modern technology requirements.

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Smart Bear Live 6: Jared from Padseeker.com

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

You did it five years ago, it doesn’t have Google Maps, not mobile compliant. I think part of it, initially, would just be to have a presence on the web and the ability to say, “Hey, if you want to. Jared: All right, the first stage is primarily. ” And to get as many customers as possible in that respect. Jared: Okay.

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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?

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Perfect Pricing Part Deux — More money from fewer sales

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

This is a guest post by Jarrod Drysdale — a web designer and bootstrapper who recently broke five figure sales for his ebook that teaches bootstrappers do-it-yourself design principles and strategies. Be like Apple: with 4% of the mobile phone market, they have nearly 50% of all profits. your time). That’s a great place to be.

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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. Sign up for AppSumo 's daily deals specifically for web geeks & entrepreneurs. What is a CRM for the people in Gmail that we want to have as our customers is the other end of the road. And thanks Bob and Jason.

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