A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

If you want a comfy, beloved little company where you can make a nice living, a “A cozy corner bistro on the Web” as Peldi wants Balsamiq Mockups to be, then ignore trends. Even so, venture capital has a horrible record in the past ten years — most funds don’t make good money. Is that really better?

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 24, 2012

of companies should never raise venture capital. Venture capital, it’s a very particular industry. Sign up for AppSumo 's daily deals specifically for web geeks & entrepreneurs. Mark: But Dan, I want to say, your language, you have to be careful about not coming across as a grumpy entrepreneur.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

But assuming it’s a fair exit, a venture capitalist, and I’m explicitly not saying angel because we could talk about angel and they’re sort of special so that might work out. Edwin: No, I do think, and I realize that very much, that if I were to take venture capital, the whole game changes.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

Or as a counter-example, when we had poor web design at WP Engine (weakness), we invested and got zero return , because it turned out that our words and product/market fit were 100x more important than design.

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