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Jason Cohen

800 Pound Gorillas Don’t Care

3 days ago | Jason Cohen

A Guest Post by Jason Cohen. NetFlix just posted their first ever decline in subscribers. They attributed this to Blockbuster — the company…

 

CapitalFactory: Your startup gets $20k cash + 20 mentors for a summer

2 weeks ago | Jason Cohen

Help me spread the word about this program! I’m a mentor and investor in CapitalFactory, a seed-stage startup mentorship program in Austin, TX.…

 

Put down the compiler until you learn why they’re not buying

3 weeks ago | Jason Cohen

I’m involved with several little companies right now. They all have the same problem, and they’re all avoiding the clearest, fastest path to…

 

Resumes considered harmful, or at least useless

4 weeks ago | Jason Cohen

In our recent hiring effort, I’ve noticed that I’ve approached all the resumes the same way: I don’t read them. Sure, I go…

 

The Anti-Bullet Test

February 8, 2010 | Jason Cohen

I’m sick of generic feature/benefit bullet points. They’re just too easy to make fun of. Here’s a sampling from a website that will…

 

Don’t write a business plan

January 27, 2010 | Jason Cohen

“You need a business plan” is the mantra of MBA types. As they say, businesses don’t plan to fail, they fail to plan!…

 

Hiring Employee #1

January 25, 2010 | Jason Cohen

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…

 

Double your productivity without more work or stress

January 22, 2010 | Jason Cohen

Zappos COO Alfred Lin enlightens us on how to become 37 times more productive in only one year! Can it be? Let’s hear…

 

Please stop saying social
media marketing is free

January 20, 2010 | Jason Cohen

They say that everything in social media is either free or close to free. Blogging and Twitter and Facebook and viral movies and…

 

How to get customers who love
you even when you screw up

January 18, 2010 | Jason Cohen

This is Part Five of a five-part series: Joy of Honesty in Business. During the first year of Smart Bear’s existence,…

 
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