A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Examples: A popular app drops to zero downloads after Apple builds it into iOS; A Microsoft Office add-on drops to zero sales after Microsoft builds that feature into Office; A Twitter utility breaks when Twitter removes functionality from their public API. But sometimes you experience the adverse end of that risk.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 28, 2009

The most common reaction I get is something like, "that sounds great - for your business - but that could never work for my application." I would posit that those same people have never been on the receiving end of a phone call from a sixteen-year-old girl complaining that your new release ruined their birthday party.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 30, 2010

These can be research tasks, like finding every tech blogger who blogs about cats, repetitive tasks like creating 100 affiliate links for products in a Word document, or ongoing tasks like monitoring a handful of job boards and posting new jobs to your website. The value proposition of a VA deals with how you monetize your time.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

But my coders will beat up your coders, any day of the week. And if you’re doing Windows Mobile 7 apps (which the stats suggest you aren’t), it’s your only choice. CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers. Update: The end is near, Expensify is hiring a.NET programmer! Some additional comments at the end.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 19, 2019

Then in 2008, he had a revelation from his experience on the Penn endowment board about how to democratize investing advice and “accidentally” founded a new company to do it. In the old days, when companies built hardware, they were all examples of high technical risk and low market risk. He’s currently the CEO of the company.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Here’s what I said: In your career in tech and VC, how has your focus on ESG responsibility changed over time? One of the impact initiatives I’m proudest of is founding Harvard Business School Alumni Angels of New York , a nonprofit and now the East Coast’s largest angel group. trillion. .

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