A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

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Trends: Follow or flee?

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Today’s technology will become cheaper. Tomorrow’s technology will be more accessible to more people. Even so, venture capital has a horrible record in the past ten years — most funds don’t make good money. India and China will grow in population and influence.

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Smart Bear Live 8: Edwin from MeetingKing.com

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

And when you look at the tools that we use, I mean we’ve made so many technological advances, but really to manage a meeting there’s not a practical tool available. Edwin: No, I do think, and I realize that very much, that if I were to take venture capital, the whole game changes. For venture capital, right?

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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. of companies should never raise venture capital. Venture capital, it’s a very particular industry. No one uses them, because they quite simply require too much effort for someone to engage them. Jason: I use them.

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How to simplify complex decisions by cleaving the facts

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

If you attempt to vote on the issues, you eventually realize there are too many to consider: climate, energy, health, taxes, economy, trade, war, education, technology, corporations, Wall Street, abortion, drug-legalization, civil rights, and many more. Here you have two candidates which empirically are the least-liked in history.