A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 23, 2012

.” Here’s the summary of his track record (excerpted from the Fast Company article): Forefront — IPO’ed in 1995 by CBT — CBT stock fell 85% in 1998 and prompted class-action lawsuits. invested, IPO’ed in 2000 for $32/share — stock price now $2. Which explains why their stock price is at $2.43

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

DECEMBER 21, 2009

It could be a new partner willing to work for stock. "Help" doesn't necessarily mean a proper, 40 hours/week (OK, who are we kidding, 60 hours/week) employee. It could be a part-time consultant. It could be an intern. It could be an outsourced office assistant. Which of your business operations do you hate?

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

DECEMBER 12, 2011

stock, performance bonuses) are preferred to guaranteed earnings (e.g. Startups are chaotic, rules change, and there is no “job description.” ” It’s better to make a strong decision that turns out wrong , and admit it, than to plan ahead or wait for instructions. Potential earnings (e.g. salary, benefits).

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JUNE 27, 2011

Or what if we have another stock market collapse or if they shoot down a plane over California? Deal A gets to your number in stock options with a 4-year earn-out in a public company whose stock has been uninteresting for the past three years, plus an additional third of your number in cash — more than you wanted!

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

Typically the salary is less than market with the balance given in the form of equity, but again how do you compute that when the stock is, today, of no value? The question is further complicated when the new hire is getting a salary. What about $Y/mo?

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 7, 2016

Not for the stock options — you won’t be doling out 1% of the company to anyone by then. Early on it’s easy to hire, because it’s cool and fun to join a startup, and assuming you’ve hired great talent, those people never have trouble finding another job if they have to, even in a down economy.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

Those customers are fairly easy to sign up, but if I look at where most of the money comes from, and those are the larger licenses of five or ten users, that is according to your definition then the small businesses and small businesses include actually the Mexican Stock Exchange, Chamber of Commerce. In Spain I have large companies.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JUNE 28, 2010

So I suppose one route to "finding your voice" is to take stock of your total life experience together with your ten-year goals , then synthesize a compelling, internally-consistent philosophy, apply that to all your actions and communications, and summarize it in four punchy words on your home page.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MAY 23, 2011

I used to tease my girlfriend that I liked her similar to how the stock market did that day. It finally dawned on me a few weeks later that my daily feelings were fluctuating with our sales numbers. What a fricking weird ass way to live a life. Now I was living a depressed and unproductive day.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

APRIL 3, 2012

Bootstrapping Design teaches startup founders DIY design —it’s an alternative to hiring a designer or buying templates, logos, and other stock design. The comparison is irrelevant. On the website, I compare spending thousands of dollars and hiring a designer to buying an ebook.

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