A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Improve the odds by selecting products with traction backed by a team with the ability to both build and learn. Even so, venture capital has a horrible record in the past ten years — most funds don’t make good money. For the institutional investor, it’s a set of bets.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

Listen to this episode if you want to hear about a founder who has a product and users and paying customers … and is trying to figure out how to take his company to the next level and grow faster. We started with the product about three years ago, development, a year later we released it. A lot has happened since then.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 24, 2012

Pin It Listen to this episode if you want to learn what a VC investor thinks about “Internet scale” and how you can usually simplify your idea by charging a fair price for your product. We’re building a product. of companies should never raise venture capital. I’m in development right now.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

Now the decision is: “What aspects of our product should we invest in, over the next 12 months?” This is true personally, professionally, and in Product. To explain this, and to further emphasize the broad generality in which these rules apply, let’s switch examples yet again.

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