A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Ask a technical founder about his startup, and he'll proudly describe his stunning software — simple, compelling, useful, fun. Four uncomfortable seconds later, a smile breaks across the founder's face. We're going to start with our own network and grow it from there.". We're better than everyone else at SEO.". "A

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Another way to learn more about who’s speaking is to sort the conference program by category and find people addressing specific topics. For example: Mitch Kapor was a founder of Lotus. He’s a founder of Andreessen Horowitz, which has backed Facebook, Skype, Jawbone, and dozens of other companies whose products you use.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2011

They have totally changed the way you run a VC firm, investing heavily in systems & events for their founders that are pushing the boundaries of the way our industry works. The discussion with Howard Morgan starts off by acknowledging Josh Kopelman as a co-founder of First Round Capital. I'm a huge fan of this innovation.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 26, 2014

Ohad Frankfurt is the cofounder and CEO of Swayy , a personalized content curation and management platform. About a year and a half ago, we got accepted to the Elevator accelerator program in Tel Aviv, Israel. Sometimes, it was a technical issue that other founders helped us to solve. That is a fascinating perspective.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Guest post by Jennifer Maerz, Program Chair of Lean Startup Co. For eight years, our flagship conference has focused on sharing stories and lessons of putting Lean Startup’s entrepreneurial methodology into practice. 31 ( limited to the first 200 Gold Passholders.) Sign up for free here.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

Should I trust my instincts for founders and products or should I be more focused on the market size or business plan? ” As far as “terms” go I’m 100% aligned to have the most vanilla, founder-friendly terms I can. And I listen to the reasons their co-founders quit their well-payed job to join them.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

Should I trust my instincts for founders and products or should I be more focused on the market size or business plan? ” As far as “terms” go I’m 100% aligned to have the most vanilla, founder-friendly terms I can. And I listen to the reasons their co-founders quit their well-payed job to join them.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Wildfire was one of the darlings of the fbFund incubator program. ShoeDazzle has Kim Kardashian as a co-founder / company as a spokesperson as well as Brian Lee who was a co-founder at Legal Zoom. Sort of a sophisticated and targeted co-reg – even though I’m guessing they hate that term.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

He’s considering making me the permanent co-host so if you enjoy any of this episode or want to see me on the show on a more regular basis please Tweet @jason and let him know (he asked for direct feedback). I think the best solution for the social networking era is “in-stream&# advertising. But I made it for a reason.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 11, 2016

How to recognize when it’s time to pull the plug on your startup idea, and why founders can’t operate afford to operate in a vacuum were the focus on today’s Entrepreneurs are Everywhere radio show. Dan Miller , co-founder of Level Therapy , provider of mobile therapy sessions. Dan Miller. Brian Zuercher.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 7, 2018

by Humberto Farias, CEO and co-founder at Concepta. The problem, is historically, the investment in time and resources required for traditional digital solutions can feel out of reach, and the type of programs used by corporations aren’t practical for SMBs for daily operations like reporting, inventory, or accounting.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 15, 2014

In 2002, I met Libba and Gifford Pinchot, cofounders of Bainbridge Graduate Institute , at a retreat. The two tried to convince me to enroll in their new MBA program focused on sustainable business. I ultimately finished that MBA program while working full-time and with a newborn child, whom I brought to class with me.).

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

I grew up a computer programmer, a builder of computer networks and fascinated with infrastructure so in many ways I felt like I existed at the inception of many of these great technologies. We see improvements in wireless transmission and in real-time programming languages. We see big data storage solutions and processing platforms.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2009

With open source software (LAMP stack) and cloud computing infrastructure it just wasn’t that expensive to get your company going and founders just wanted to raise less money. So they set up seed programs that allowed for rapid decisions for $500k or less, often done as convertible debt for both speed and cost reasons.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

This post is by Scott Edward Walker , the firm's founder and CEO. It is here where my father began his 15-year journey from entry-level engineer at Western Union to founder and CEO of Walker Telecommunications Corporation , a NASDAQ-listed public company. If you like it, check out Scott's blog and tweets @ ScottEdWalker.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Ryan Hoover is the co-creator of Product Hunt , creator of Startup Edition , and instructor at Tradecraft. Well-kept GitHub profiles exemplify one’s breadth and expertise in various programming languages and their contributions to open source and side projects, exemplify programmers’ eagerness to create. x 11 sheet of paper?

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View from Seed

JANUARY 24, 2018

Today, we’re thrilled to announce a new program that we hope will help our portfolio companies with two of these bullets. The concept our Guilds is simple: We want to bring together small groups of Product and Go-to-Market experts to lend their time to support our portfolio company founders and key operators. Go-to-Market Guild.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 15, 2016

by Madarapu Nagaraju, co-founder and director at KnowledgeHut. Some of these specific technical skills are: Java: It is a requirement to be fluent in the programming languages in Java. Another great resource for anyone who wants to become an Android Developer is the Android Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 22, 2011

I didn’t sit through any panels (other than the day where I was the emcee and judge for the BizSpark Accelerator program). I turned around and there was StockTwits founder (and my favorite Tweeter) Howard Lindzon. Wendy Tan White, the founder of Moonfruit. And a motley crew of other interesting startup founders.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 21, 2015

The Columbia Startup Lab is in a building completely taken over by WeWork – a company that provides co-working spaces in 12 cities worldwide. This was just one of the 14 WeWork co-working spaces in New York City – there are over 100 co-working spaces in New York. Women have built a network of women mentors?

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 14, 2022

Bob is the Founder and Chairman of the Board of Acceleration Partners, a global partner marketing agency. He is also the Co-founder and Chairman of BrandCycle. More About Duct Tape Marketing Consultant Network: Learn more here. He's also the co-founder and chairman of brand cycle. Like this show?

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Kent, a veteran programmer, a founder of the Agile method and the creator of Extreme Programming, came armed with anecdotes and lessons from his own experience, as well as a few questions for Eric. Nowadays Kent is programming again, this time at Facebook, which he describes: “It''s a laboratory.

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View from Seed

MARCH 29, 2016

Ask a founder of a growing startup what they need most, and you’ll often get an answer along the lines of, “We need great people, and we need them fast.”. Founders need to make sure the quality of the startup’s offerings remains high and provide adequate sales and service support for prospective customers and new users.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 7, 2021

He’s the founder of the pioneering content marketing website Copyblogger , the midlife personal growth newsletter Further , and Unemployable , an educational community that provides smart strategies for freelancers and entrepreneurs. More About Certified Marketing Manager Program Powered By Duct Tape Marketing: Check it out here.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 7, 2016

By Raj Narayanaswamy, cofounder and Co-CEO, Replicon. The access to some of the world’s brightest minds in technology, the proximity to some of the industry’s most influential brands, and the vast networking opportunities in both start-up and investor communities is hard to ignore. Photo credit: Canada flag from Shutterstock.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

Revolution is a “stage agnostic&# fund (means they invest early or late) funded entirely by Steve Case , the founder of AOL and co-founded by two other individuals, Tige Savage (yes, pronounced like the golfer, minus the “r&# ) and Donn Davis. It had the audience, the people, the network, everything!

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 1, 2022

Xenia is the CEO and Co-Founder of Planable, a content review and marketing collaboration platform used by over 5,000 teams behind brands such as Hyundai, Christian Louboutin, Viber, and United Nations. Content Planning Made Easy With Planable written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. This is John Jantsch.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Our platform’s ‘EQ’ is higher than mine”, as Ori Manor, Co-founder and CEO, once stated. One motivating factor is the number and generosity of Israeli-sponsored government programs incentivizing growth in STEM fields. As the name suggests, LawGeex is all about making legal practice easier.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2016

We also look for a cultural fit with Upfront, which includes the gravitas to deal with executives and founders at the startups we back as well as the other board members. Having a great co-investor (in good times and bad times, till death do we part) can make all the difference in critical moments of a company’s trajectory.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Gain Client’s Trust by ensuring Cybersecurity written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast with Zach Kromkowski In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interviewed Zach Kromkowski, co-founder of Sention, about the importance of cybersecurity for small businesses and marketing firms.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 17, 2021

Last September (2020), six months after the 1st lockdown, my co-founder Vladimir Blagojevic and I decided to run market research to figure out what challenges B2B companies face and how they solve them. Here is what their founder Leo Mirsky told us in the early beginning of the collaboration: Marketing was a mystery to us.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 3, 2012

Shaker Heights, Ohio-based business incubator LaunchHouse is inviting ten technology startup teams from around the world to participate in a 12-week startup accelerator program. If you’re a technology-based startup with two or three co-founders, you can apply for the program here.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Guest post by Jennifer Maerz, contributing editor of Lean Startup Co. Gold Passholders can head off on the track of their choice: either tours of groundbreaking startups like Pivotal and the non-profit Defy Ventures , among other offerings, or enterprise training with Lean Startup Co. at Breather.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 13, 2020

In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Liam Austin a virtual event strategist, having launched over 15 virtual summits and online business networking events, hosting over 400 speakers whilst educating 100,000+ business owners through his programs.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. Carmen Medina , co-author of the book Rebels at Work , spent 32 years at CIA. Don Burke , digital architect for the Central Intelligence Agency.

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Reid Hoffman

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Among the executives we meet, however, very little of this learning takes place in formal classes or programs, including online ones. The most successful leaders we know learn in a different way: by tapping into what we call network intelligence. In the Networked Age, every day is exam day—full of new, unpredictable challenges.

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Board Effect

MARCH 3, 2025

Create a shared understand of the board member role Katharine Earhart, Partner and Co-Founder, Fairlight Advisors : Board members need to understand what their role is within the nonprofit organization. By making this investment, your organization and its community will benefit.

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