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. This week we closed $250M in financing from Silver Lake , the premier technology private equity firm.

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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: Well, you and I also just mentioned that we’re on the bleeding edge of technology. 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. Jason: I use them.

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Rise and fall: Three Lessons for Entrepreneurs

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

As Tina Seelig , Executive Director for the Stanford Technology Ventures Program , explains in this video clip : "It is a very small world. So I'd go to tons of Silicon Valley events. A job is also a great place to build strong relationships — with your boss, your co-workers and/or your customers.