A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

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WP Engine passes $100M in revenue and secures $250M investment from Silver Lake

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

The Silicon Valley-oriented technology press outlets don’t cover us because we’re not in San Francisco, even though we’re more successful than most of the startups they cover. After the success of Smart Bear, I should be setting my sights on something big, not this.

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Killer articles on startups

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Thrice Around the Block: The Growth Mystique: A Silicon Valley Parable. Thoughts on marketing, technology commercialization and Silicon Valley startups by a high tech executive. Aug 17, 2010 at 12:35pm. Great parable by @edwinmoh on what the VC world is like: [link]. Aug 16, 2010 at 6:15am.

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

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Dan: My question is related to all this talk that I hear in the Silicon Valley about Internet scale. Trying to figure out how the Silicon Valley… again, my last venture was not built here. Every VC I met in Silicon Valley was saying, “We don’t invest in content. I was in a 10-year company.

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Rise and fall: Three Lessons for Entrepreneurs

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

So I'd go to tons of Silicon Valley events. So what I did for the next six months after that, after we had failed and closed down the fundraising process, I spent the entire time meeting as many people as possible.