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A Smart Bear: Startups + Marketing + Geekery

http://blog.asmartbear.com

Stories from someone who's been there -- Jason Cohen, founder of Smart Bear Software

• Added on: Jan 7th, 2009
• Country: United States
• Language: English

• Author: Jason Cohen
• Listed in: Marketing Small Business
• Tags: Software business Marketing entrepreneur startups

Recent Posts

• How I got 6000 RSS subscribers in 12 months

  Posted on Monday November 30th, 2009 at 08:30 in blogging, writing, How-To, social media, essays

  This isn't a recipe. I'm not saying "If you do it my way, you'll succeed too."  These aren't tricks.  This isn't necessarily repeatable exactly this way. I'm not arrogant enough to think luck didn't play a big part — maybe the biggest. ...

• Really give thanks this time

  Posted on Monday November 23rd, 2009 at 08:30 in inspiration, philosophy, happiness, essays

  On Thanksgiving we give thanks, but to whom? I have a lot to be thankful for. I live in a country where I can vote and say anything I want, where it's possible to make money from a new idea and years of hard work. I love working and I love c...

• New empirical data for SEO and social media marketing strategies

  Posted on Monday November 9th, 2009 at 08:30 in technology, Strategy, How-To, social media, metrics, lead-gen

  Strategies for social media and SEO are so... squishy. You know what I mean. You can't measure "authenticity." You can't measure "relationships." You can measure "subscribers" and "followers" and "uniques" but that doesn't tell you anything...

• Hiring Employee #1

  Posted on Monday November 2nd, 2009 at 08:30 in Culture, hiring, How-To

  It's a big decision to make your first hire, because what you're really deciding is whether you want to keep a lifestyle business or attempt to cross the chasm and maybe even get rich. (Cartoon by Andertoons) Assuming you're really in the mark...

• Rich vs. King in the Real World: Why I sold my company

  Posted on Monday October 19th, 2009 at 08:30 in philosophy, essays, exit-strategy

  I sold my company, Smart Bear, in December of 2007. I haven't talked about it at all on this blog, and it's time I spill my guts about the whole affair. You'd think selling a company would be a glamorous, exuberant experience, but I was surpri...

• Ask your startup questions on OnStartups Answers

  Posted on Monday October 12th, 2009 at 08:30 in advice, Announcements, starting

  I'm pleased to announce http://Answers.OnStartups.com, a new venture of OnStartups which I'm moderating. Ask questions about startups, get answers from the community which includes famous entrepreneurs as well as yours truly....

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