crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 20, 2019

But as a business grows, managing growth and organizing information becomes increasingly more difficult. But if you want your business to succeed, you must evolve the way you manage your business to match the growth of the business. That’s where a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solution can help. Why a CRM?

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Board Effect

MAY 1, 2019

Compliance with HIPAA laws is something that board trustees should be having conversations with their management staff about. HIPAA is a federal act that Congress passed in 1996 to help patients protect their personal and sensitive information. Board Management Software Assists Trustees With HIPAA Compliance.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Based on a small sample of household names from Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg, he is an optimist. Six years later, he managed to land a contract with IBM to provide their IBM PC base operating system. - This company was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994. In April, 1996, Yahoo! million, by selling 2.6

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2012

Based on a small sample of household names from Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg, he is an optimist. Six years later, he managed to land a contract with IBM to provide their IBM PC base operating system. - This company was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994. In April, 1996, Yahoo! million, by selling 2.6

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Startups often have mission statements, goals & objectives and the best roll out company wide processes to align the CEO’s goals with the executive management goals with the next level staff goals all the way down the organization. Startups are team sports because you’re all working on the same shared objective of the company.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Since 1996, ASLAN has worked with many Fortune 500 companies, training more than 100,000 sellers and leaders in over 35 countries. More About Certified Marketing Manager Program Powered By Duct Tape Marketing: Check it out here. I've got my email and I just gotta write it on changing names. Like this show? Duct Tape Transcript.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2011

Based on a small sample of household names from Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg, he is an optimist. Six years later, he managed to land a contract with IBM to provide their IBM PC base operating system. - This company was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994. In April, 1996, Yahoo! million, by selling 2.6

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

For small business owners, this adds up to many opportunities to round out staff, manage business surges, and leverage expertise for specific situations. She began her work-at-home career in 1996 with the launch of her first website: Home-Based Working Moms. It’s easy to find and hire an independent contractor.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2010

Based on a small sample of household names from Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg, he is an optimist. Six years later, he managed to land a contract with IBM to provide their IBM PC base operating system. - This company was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994. In April, 1996, Yahoo! million, by selling 2.6

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 2, 2018

The first project of this kind was GIMPS , a large-scale program launched in 1996 for the purpose of searching for Mersenne prime numbers , that is prime numbers of the form 2 p — 1 where P is a random integer. Prime time. These so-called volunteer computing projects dealt with scientific research. million CPUs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2010

To be sure, a number of well-known tech titans started more-or-less this way: Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, and Hewlett-Packard, to name a few. The 55-64 age bracket exhibited the highest rate of entrepreneurial activity every year from 1996 to 2008, while the 20-34 bracket actually had the lowest rate.

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Brandanew

APRIL 23, 2018

After all, there are more CEOs named John in the US than women. This report about unpaid housework gets to the point easily: Statistics from the 1996 Census of Population confirm that women continue to do the vast majority of unpaid housework and care-giving, whether or not they work for pay.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

In 2007, BusinessWeek named Ries one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech and in 2009 he was honored with a TechFellow award in the category of Engineering Leadership. He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming (Waite Group Press, 1996). So much for timing.

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help.bplans.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Email Management. —————————————— [Name withheld]. Consulting rates go all over the place, but you’re going to pay more than that in many cities for a first-rate name-brand management consultant. Business Calculators. SBDC Locator.

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Board Effect

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Announce your nonprofit’s role when another user uses the nonprofit’s name elsewhere on the web. The Communications and Decency Act of 1996 also offers some protection for infringement claims for nonprofits. It’s wise to do a search on your nonprofit’s name occasionally and find out who is also using your content.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Palm in a New Market What makes this example really interesting is this: rewind the story 4 years earlier to 1996. In 1996 no potential customer had even heard of a Personal Digital Assistant. In 1996 Palm was selling a product that allowed users to do something they couldn’t do before. It was a new product. make-or-break.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 27, 2011

Ben & Jerry’s is a quirky ice cream company that’s best known for its creatively-named flavors and outspoken political advocacy. Even though the mom-and-pop ice cream business was bought out, it has managed to maintain its lighthearted humor and commitment to social causes that made it unique and likeable from the beginning.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 21, 2012

By the 1930s, P&G had grown to become an international corporation with a wide variety of new products and brand names, many acquired by purchasing other businesses. In the 1950s, Ball branched out to begin creating goods and services for the aerospace sector, eventually exiting the glass business for good in 1996.

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Software By Rob

MAY 4, 2009

Whether you’re selling invoicing software or performance management software your gross margin is going to be close to 100%. Whereas we got some big names interested in Pay4bugs very early, just with SEO. #9 But with sunglasses, paper lanterns and beach towels the margin is much smaller. 9 Jeremy on 08.11.09 Low margins 2.

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infochachkie.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Lousy Products Might Break Your Bones – But A Name Will Seldom Hurt You John Greathouse – Posted in: Entrepreneur , Strategic Planning. With a name like Smucker’s, it has to be good.” I would think that with a name like Smucker’s it has to be a vile disease or possibly a large, poisonous, South American leech.

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Kodorra

DECEMBER 2, 2018

Hotmail was developed by Jack Smith and Sabeer Bhatia in 1996. Before Apple became a household name and a multi-billion dollar tech company, they went through quite a few struggles. Seeing how passionate Soichiro was about cars, the auto shop manager decided to give him a try. Hotmail (Rejected 20 Times by Investors).

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 21, 2015

Everest climb in 1996, a story made famous by the bestselling book, “Into Thin Air.” Based on the true story first told in the nonfiction book of the same name, “The Big Short” tells the tale of those few who saw the 2008 market crash coming, and bet against the banks in order to win big. He Named Me Malala.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 17, 2024

No, not 19 2006, not 1996, 2006. So how you can pick, you might say, you know what, I like working with middle managers. I like working with program managers. I still have to manage them. Phil (01:40): Well, when I started, I had no clue. I remember back in 19 what? Instead of what you should pick. That's a hard thing.

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aweissman.com

APRIL 14, 2010

Back then, one of AOLs innovations was a publishing platform ( Rainman - Remote Automated Information Manager) which allowed thousands of content producers - of all sizes and skills - to publish into AOL. All of it made me think back to my youth, the days of AOL, around 1995-1997. The platform succeeded. Until it didnt. Until it didnt.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Since the term “cloud computing” was coined in 1996—at least as we have come to understand its meaning—the software as a service industry has exploded. I used a freelance web designer and I only created the core functions to create, send, and manage invoices. The importance of a domain name. Pick a name for your business.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 30, 2023

That wasn't my intention in 1996. So you can spend less time managing software and more time on what matters your customers. Scroll back to top Sign up to receive email updates Enter your name and email address below and I'll send you periodic updates about the podcast. And I have a vision that it would become as big as it has.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

If you work your way down the Forbes 400 making an x next to the name of each person with an MBA, youll learn something importantabout business school. We alsothought wed be able to sign up a lot of catalog companies, becauseselling online was a natural extension of their existing business.But in 1996 that was a hard sell.

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Ben's Blog

MARCH 24, 2011

In fact, 2010 venture capital fundraising is at the same level as it was in 1995 and 1996. As a result of the shift in application architecture, the old computing infrastructure became inappropriate and created new companies in Networking, Storage, and Management Software like Cisco and EMC. It didn’t stop there.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 28, 2010

joined as a General Manager of the Computing Tabulating Recording Company, but renamed the company International Business Machines and turned it into the IBM we recognize today. Tags: Best Practices Business Companies Entrepreneurship HIstory Leadership Management People Strategy. Thomas Watson, Sr.

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om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Build a true, peer-to-peer management culture. It also helps weed out the weak links without much management interference. It also turns us into micro-managers. As a founder, that constant micro-managing is the single worst thing you can do to your startups. Name (required). These are not stratagems. They may [.].

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Software By Rob

MARCH 12, 2009

Front End Developer Resume, An 11-pound Notebook, A 2-pound Netbook, and Internet 1996 → How Third-Party Licensing Can Ruin Your Launch Micropreneurship , Startups If youre trying grow your startup youve come to the right place. at 12:45 pm Rob, why aren’t you telling us the name of the company? #8 Just a thought. #7

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

Imagine you want to store data about customers, each of whom has "last name" field in your database. The problem should be familiar to anyone who plays Scrabble: not all letter are equally likely to be used as the first letter of someones name. Give each entity a name. For example, consider this simple scheme.

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ConversionXL

MAY 16, 2018

Experimentation is essentially risk management. Testing whether major brand alterations (such as a name change) impact the number of localized website visitors. Will managers be paid a stipend for participating in a test that might damage their bottom line? Some business models use experimentation to great effect already.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

He founded SKYLIST in 1996 from his college dorm room at Carnegie Mellon, and created UnsubCentral in 2004. If you can name drop big customers, do that too — you want your profile to look impressive. I use a service like Tout to manage my email templates for quickly replies. You can follow Joshua on Twitter @joshuabaer.

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ConversionXL

MAY 31, 2017

The first wave of messaging software arrived with ICQ (launched in 1996), followed by AIM (1997), Yahoo! first name and last name, photo, twitter handle, etc.). Fortunately, intelligent chatbots exist that can help make generating (and qualifying) leads via live chat more manageable. It’s been around since the mid-1990s.

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K9 Ventures

AUGUST 12, 2011

Fifteen years ago, in 1996, while I was still a student at Carnegie Mellon University , I wrote an article (blog post in today’s parlance) about the future of computing. After a little bit of digging through old backups, I found a folder with drafts of a couple of my old articles/paper from 1996. Sunday, May 05, 1996.

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K9 Ventures

AUGUST 12, 2011

Fifteen years ago, in 1996, while I was still a student at Carnegie Mellon University , I wrote an article (blog post in today’s parlance) about the future of computing. After a little bit of digging through old backups, I found a folder with drafts of a couple of my old articles/paper from 1996. Sunday, May 05, 1996.

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