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Episode 3: Smart Bear Live!

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

How to move from a free to a paid product without losing all your users. Ryan: So, the question that I had, I was kind of thinking about this, is right now we’re moving from being a free product, so our goal is to get people in the door, and learn from them and get some feedback, see how to use it.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

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is what we call the Minimum Viable Product (MVP). Dont wait 4 weeks or more while programmers are "building features" If they cant deploy new features into production at least twice a week, dont use them. Bless you, chile! There are lots of products for doing mockups. Matt Cooke (2010-06-19) # Excellent process.