A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Great," I always exclaim, sharing the thrill of modern software development, "so how will people find out about this brilliant website?". He didn't just "tell it like it is," he gave up his marketing secrets and opened his company books. That's what we do: Bring the benefits of peer review to software development.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Neil Patel is an outstanding, globally revered marketer who can teach you plenty about content marketing, PPC, SEO, and other digital marketing channels to help your business thrive. Neil didn’t become a multi-millionaire thought leader and digital marketer to big corporations overnight. You might even want to take notes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 31, 2020

Bill Gates ran the technical show, but Steve Ballmer never let him forget the marketing and business side of the equation. handling marketing for Duncan Hines' Moist & Easy cakes – so he and Bill were a perfect mix, so to speak. Market vision, focus, and opportunity. That’s real viral marketing.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 28, 2019

4Geeks Academy students gain real-world software development skills that traditional education left behind but are required to meet the demands of our digital economy. 4Geeks Academy offers part-time or full-time, always on, bilingual curriculums focused on advanced software skills while providing unmatched job placement assistance.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

We end up using WordPress a lot as the marketing front-end of our web sites. WordPress - we spent quite a bit of time talking about how you could do a lot with WordPress to provide simple forms of lots of functionality. WordPress is pretty easy to hack. And the back-end is something that a non-technical founder can manage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2020

Companies are rightsized quickly now as markets change rapidly, and business professionals are quick to jump to new opportunities for growth and survival, with no ties to special benefits or pension plans. Here are some examples: Marketing Professional. Software Development Professional.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Code Collaborator is tool which helps software developers review each other’s work, just like an editor of a book. So the economics are obvious: If two developers would each normally spend an average of 30 minutes on a code review, once a day, that’s 20 hours of total time in a business-month. And we did.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2022

If both of you are experts at software development, even though one loves design and the other loves coding, that still won’t get the marketing done. Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales. This is probably the best place to apply your “gut” feeling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 13, 2020

If you have a software development background like mine, I’m sure you often get questions about when to outsource, versus building the solution in-house. Outsourcing is defined as contracting the work to another company, usually located in a developing country, like India, China, or Eastern Europe.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 19, 2010

No wait, I forgot, actually the question is: What happens when employee #2 makes off with your code and roadmap and marketing data and customer list, moves to Bolivia, and starts selling your stuff world-wide at one-tenth the price? To summarize: Anything that can be copied will be copied, including features, marketing copy, and pricing.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 28, 2014

Developers (and Founders) are challenged to know how much is okay in terms of bugs. I’m challenged getting developers to work with me when I can’t pay them market wages. Developers like to do things their way even when it doesn’t meet the needs of the business. The market is great for developers.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 23, 2014

The companies that ‘rent’ these products on a SaaS basis enjoy the highest standard in software without the costs, risks and tech quandaries of in-house development. This Levittown model is the future of payments software. The build-it-yourself era of payment software development is coming to a close and for good reason. “We

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2021

Manual tracking and occasional surveys won’t keep you competitive in today’s high volume and rapidly changing market. You need a platform that is comfortable with the global scope of today’s market, with it’s wide range of social and economic cultures, trends, and needs. You need to be part of a larger ecosystem.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 8, 2023

If you have a software development background like mine, I’m sure you often get questions about when to outsource, versus building the solution in-house. Outsourcing is defined as contracting the work to another company, usually located in a developing country, like India, China, or Eastern Europe.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 10, 2012

They need to be able to know the key Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder , figure out where/when/how to bring on development talent ( Hiring Developers Before Product/Market Fit? ,

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

But trying to use it on call centers, affiliate marketing, or even data entry probably won’t be effective. Fair compensation is normally something higher than the market price at the outsourcing location, but lower than you would have to pay in your location. “I I’ll outsource software development, since I don’t understand it.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2021

Idea people must surround themselves with people who build momentum and get things done, including production, marketing, finance, and sales. Gates was a software developer genius, but Ballmer upheld the marketing and business side. They soon find that the market and competitors are changing faster than they are.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

How will you be taking this to market? Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask So here are some of the questions that developers may not have thought to ask and a little bit of commentary around each question. Often this ties to marketing support. If so, are specific software development processes necessary?

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

How will you be taking this to market? Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask So here are some of the questions that developers may not have thought to ask and a little bit of commentary around each question. Often this ties to marketing support. If so, are specific software development processes necessary?

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TechEmpower

AUGUST 14, 2023

Specifically, they should know about, and help with: Asking and answering the 53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators Knowing when and how to bring on development talent ( Hiring Developers Before Product/Market Fit? ,

Technical Review 260

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2011

It isn’t open in either its standards or in the way that applications are marketed and distributed. As a software developer I wrote code on what was called a “dumb terminal” because it literally had no processing capability. But for software developers like my company the web was a blessing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 9, 2013

All you old software development types will recognize the analogy to the traditional two year “waterfall model” of software development, which has been totally replaced with the Agile iterative methodology. Here are the advantages I see with this approach: Faster time to market.

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The Next Web

JUNE 1, 2014

Over the summer of 2013, David Byttow, a former Google software developer, started building a mobile app to solve a problem he had. Chris Bolman is the Director of Growth at Percolate. This post originally appeared on the Percolate blog.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

The last couple of years has also seen the huge initial success of Ycombinator, the Lean Startup and many other product driven approaches to going to market. Broadly speaking this last trend has been healthy as it has brought an increase focus on launching products that you can test with the market and on capital efficiency.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

All you old software development types will recognize the analogy to the traditional two year “waterfall model” of software development, which has been totally replaced with the Agile iterative methodology. Here are the advantages I see with this approach: Faster time to market.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 8, 2014

If you have a software development background like mine, Im sure you often get questions about when to outsource, versus building the solution in-house. Outsourcing is defined as contracting the work to another company, usually located in a developing country, like India, China, or Eastern Europe.

Intellectual Property 238

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2019

But trying to use it on call centers, affiliate marketing, or even data entry probably won’t be effective. Fair compensation is normally something higher than the market price at the outsourcing location, but lower than you would have to pay in your location. “I I’ll outsource software development, since I don’t understand it.”

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Being able to hire talented professionals remains a difficult proposition in the current job market, especially when sourcing experienced developers, designers, and project managers. Outside project work for clients helps to assemble talented development teams. Agencies Need Well-Defined Procedures for Startup Development.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 24, 2020

A startup is the launch of a fundamentally new solution, a market innovation. Define the problem that your idea solves and conduct an initial marketing research. When compiling a business plan, focus on specific market segments. Define the Market Potential. Check whether there are growing trends in the market.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2020

Of course, their answer is that the second intends to get to market faster, but every engine has limits regardless the fuel applied. Use social media for early marketing. For example, a software development startup raising $250,000 from angel investors better be able to operate on $25,000 per month.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2014

If both of you are experts at software development, even though one loves design and the other loves coding, that still won’t get the marketing done. Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales. This is probably the best place to apply your “gut” feeling. Complementary skills.

Partner 269

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 12, 2012

All you old software development types will recognize the analogy to the traditional two year “waterfall model” of software development, which has been totally replaced with the Agile iterative methodology. Here are the advantages I see with this approach: Faster time to market.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2017

I pointed out that the storage market in the US alone is ~$30 billion / year and there is no dominant provider — the largest player has < 10% market share. years of software development. We have built route management software so that drivers have productive routes and can cluster pick-ups and drop-offs.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 13, 2017

Agile marketing may not be a phrase you hear often, but it’s becoming increasingly popular and important. Traditionally associated with development and product management, agile is a lightweight and, well, agile framework for software development and bringing features and products to market.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Companies are rightsized quickly now as markets change rapidly, and business professionals are quick to jump to new opportunities for growth and survival, with no ties to special benefits or pension plans. Here are some examples: Marketing Professional. Software Development Professional.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

If both of you are experts at software development, even though one loves design and the other loves coding, that still won’t get the marketing done. Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales. This is probably the best place to apply your “gut” feeling. Complementary skills.

Partner 258

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 9, 2014

In addition, the top three monthly Crowdtivate campaigns will receive exclusive assistance, including access to test users, marketing support, startup funding, free software development, invention development, and infrastructure support.

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