A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

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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. 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. I will ignore the poster's fame. This isn't a popularity contest.

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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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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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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. Transcript.

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Episode 3b: Smart Bear Live!

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

You can listen by subscribing to my podcast on iTunes , or it’s enclosed in this blog’s RSS feed , or you can just download the mp3 of the first hour. Just take it out of the RSS reader. Jason: It’s Adelaide and Amy, two women who have a co-working space in New York specifically for women entrepreneurs.

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