A Smart Bear

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Jason Cohen's essays on startups, entrepreneurship, product strategy, marketing, pricing, and company building.

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A butterfly flaps its wings and you make a sale #Business #Strategy #Marketing
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Dec 29, 2024
When you have nothing: How to find potential customers to interview #Startups #Marketing #Entrepreneurship
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Dec 22, 2024
Solving the Low-Budget Online Marketing Dilemma #Marketing #Startups #Strategy
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Dec 15, 2024
Brittle Points: How to make companies robust #Business #Strategy #Startups
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Dec 8, 2024
Scars #Business #Startups #Strategy
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Dec 1, 2024
Intense Asymmetry and Self-Flagellation #Startups #Business #Strategy
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Nov 24, 2024
p-Hacking your A/B tests #Business #Strategy #Data
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Nov 17, 2024
A life-changing challenge guided by Pascal's Wager #Strategy #Business #DecisionMaking
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Nov 10, 2024
No wait, of course THAT is the single most important SaaS metric #SaaS #Metrics #Startups
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Nov 3, 2024
Tech Support is sales #Business #Sales #Strategy
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Oct 27, 2024
The Serengeti Plain: Fallacies that aren't fallacies #Business #Strategy #Startups
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Oct 20, 2024
You're a little company, now act like one #Startups #Strategy #Business
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Oct 13, 2024
Why startup biz dev deals almost never get done #Startup #Business #Strategy
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Oct 6, 2024
Pivot Points #Startups #Business #Strategy
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Sep 29, 2024
The Code is your Enemy #Startups #Entrepreneurship #Product
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Sep 22, 2024
Ignoring the Wisdom of Crowds #Startups #Business #Strategy
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Sep 15, 2024
Legacy #Business #Startups #Strategy
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Sep 8, 2024
Human + Fallible = Love; Corporate + Sterile = Refund #Authenticity #Business #Startups
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Sep 1, 2024
Profitable on day one! #Startup #Business #Strategy
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Aug 25, 2024
The mid-market briar patch #Startups #Business #Strategy
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Aug 18, 2024
Individual efficiency vs administrative efficiency #Business #Strategy #Management
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Aug 11, 2024
Double your productivity without more work or stress #Productivity #Startups #Business
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Aug 4, 2024
"Authentic" is dead. And so is "is dead." #Startups #Business #Strategy
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Jul 28, 2024
How much of success is luck? #Business #Strategy #Entrepreneurship
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Jul 21, 2024
How annual pre-pay creates an infinite marketing budget #Business #Marketing #Startups
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Jul 14, 2024
Procrastinate for Success! #Productivity #Entrepreneurship #Strategy
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Jul 7, 2024
Not disruptive, and proud of it #Business #Strategy #Startups
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Jun 30, 2024
"It's a Balance" isn't always the answer #Business #Strategy #Startups
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Jun 23, 2024
Being who you are, while becoming better #SelfImprovement #PersonalGrowth #Entrepreneurship
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Jun 16, 2024
The Lindy Effect on startup potential #Startups #Business #Strategy
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Jun 9, 2024
When being "first" is not a competitive advantage #Business #Strategy #Startups
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Jun 2, 2024
Disentangling the three languages: Customers, Product, Business #Business #Startups #Strategy
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May 26, 2024
Rare things become common at scale #Startups #Business #Strategy
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May 19, 2024
Hello, I'm 1074018628 #Startups #Business #Strategy
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May 12, 2024
Adjacency Matrix: How to expand after PMF #Startups #Business #Strategy
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May 5, 2024
Capturing luck with "or" instead of "and" #Startup #Business #Strategy
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Apr 28, 2024
It's a torturous chaos until it isn't #Startups #Business #Strategy
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Apr 21, 2024
Learn by Copy #Business #Strategy #Startups
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Apr 14, 2024
The "Convergent" theory of finding truth in darkness #Startup #Strategy #Business
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Apr 7, 2024
Avoid blundering: 80% of a winning strategy #Strategy #Business #Startups
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Mar 31, 2024

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