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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
FEBRUARY 26, 2022
Sometimes the simplest technology is best. .” “Sticking” means plumbing a wooden dowl through top of the wing, into the gas tank, judging the gas level by the height of the resulting wetness. Wooden sticks don’t run out of batteries or make you wait forty-seven minutes for a security update. Trust, but verify.”
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
JANUARY 4, 2018
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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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
AUGUST 23, 2010
We've created technology so different from the incumbents that we're changing the conversation about how people solve this pain. However, a combination of newly-available technology and modern mindset makes this the right time for a new software play.For example, my company Smart Bear created the first commercial peer code review tool.
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
APRIL 12, 2010
It's hard to think of disruptive technologies or products that didn't take many millions of dollars to implement. Most technology we now consider "disruptive" wasn't conceived that way. Their technology proved superior, but "a better search engine" was hardly a new idea. But disruptive is rare and usually expensive.
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
SEPTEMBER 4, 2012
But I wonder if one answer could be that there are these other technology companies like this one I’m talking about. I wonder if another technology company in which you don’t compete, so that then doing one thing means they wouldn’t do the other and yet you’re both going after the same people. Jason: Why?
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
NOVEMBER 29, 2014
The general rule is called the Lindy Effect : For certain non-perishable things (like technology, companies, and ideas), the expected lifespan increases according to the length of its current age. This is due to the very definition of “average” — you’ll spend half your time before the half-way point, and half after.
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
NOVEMBER 4, 2019
The Important Thing isn’t always a feature or technology. So great that they’re excited to support a promising new company instead of worried about creating a dependency on a wobbly new company (defeating the lack of brand).
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