A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 4, 2018

We’ve come a long way from switching this blog to WordPress in 2009, my systematic vetting of the business idea in 2009 (after needing it myself due to the success of this blog crashing my dedicated server every time I got on Hackernews), the “ coming soon ” pre-launch in April 2010, our Series A 3-minute pitch in 2011, our incredible CEO Heather Brunner (..)

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 18, 2020

This year’s Global Entrepreneurship Week, which included Capital Factory’s Texas Startup Roadshow, included breakout sessions relevant to each city and showcased local promising startups. from the scrappy ranchers of the early days, to the oil wildcatters, culminating in today’s high-tech entrepreneurs. We went public in 2012.”

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Austin, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio form a massive startup Megalopolis that is attracting top talent, impact-focused investors, and the most innovative companies in the world. Are they running from high prices, high taxes, dysfunctional government, and wildfires? Startups and investors should treat Texas like one big city.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 1, 2018

Come enjoy the live band and intimate seating that also opens up into networking lounges designed to showcase Austin’s executive clout, global appeal, and the Austin tech scene and companies that live and thrive here 365 days a year. Time: 12:30pm to 1:30pm Location: Hilton?—?Salon Time: 5pm to 6pm Location: Hilton?—?Salon

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 17, 2020

But I especially admire the way that you have thrown yourselves into relief efforts very different from the product that you were building just a few months ago. So would you talk a little bit about the history of the company and what the product was pre-crisis. We were at Haas School of Business.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 29, 2020

So plenty of dark bits, but also this weird discovery that you can create incredibly close connections with people that I've never met before and build a global community of people who want nothing more than to help save lives. And for them, a lot of it was this kind of weird anti-government thing. So there was like scary moments.

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