crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 15, 2018

We regularly share our favorite posts on entrepreneurship, small business, marketing, logo design , web design , startups, leadership, social media, marketing, economics and other interesting stuff! A well designed website will inspire confidence and trust and will turn leads into clients. — Kate L. . — Kate L.

Small Business 52

Small Business Design Marketing Entrepreneur 52

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

MySpace was: scantily dressed, teenaged, middle-America, design chaos and on ad steroids. Third-party software companies will start to offer features to websites to actually drive social features. In 1998 the Department of Justice launched an anti-trust case against Microsoft.

Social Network 297

Social Network Networking Internet EC2 297

Hearpreneur

APRIL 8, 2018

Typically, the first line on that form is designated for the “producer,” line 172 is “props,” line 234 is “principal cast,” and the list goes on. At first we considered hundreds of potential names, created software to look for URLs, asked friends, made Facebook posts, held meetings and drank a lot. None of it worked. and the “cloud”.

Naming 81

Naming Entrepreneur Memphis LLC 81

Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Park began to write software to try to speed up the process, automating countless manual steps and creating a user interface that would be simple enough for doctors and medical clerks to use. It turned out, the physician practices loved the software, but didn't love the practice management services.

Fractional CTO 43

Fractional CTO Cofounder Cleveland Vertical 43

Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

Software companies had to buy specialized computers and license expensive software. Rather they understood that a startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. Rules for building a company in 2011 are different than they were in 2008 or 1998. The New Exits.

Internet 334

Internet IPO Agile Silicon Valley 334

thebarefootvc

JANUARY 13, 2014

Consumer hardware products are different than software (or “traditional” hardware such as semiconductors – note Intel’s failed attempts to sell consumer products) – design is key and needs to be in the core DNA of a company.

Silicon Valley 94

Silicon Valley Venture Capital Cofounder Acquisition 94

Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 9, 2006

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Paris, November 1998. software. (10). Software 2.0: Design courtesy of Ashley Cecil. Cracking The Code. Saturday, December 09, 2006. First week on the job. anecdotes. (13). Cloud Computing. (1).

Software Review 48

Software Review Technical Review Europe Venture Capital 48

Austin Startup

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Q1: What caused you to want to get into working with mobile telephone platforms in 1998? It is a term that I defined years ago to highlight the importance of putting the user and his/her mobile-context at the center of the mobile sofware design. Writing software for mobile is not the same as for fixed desktops or PCs.

Programming 59

Programming Founder Silicon Valley Mobile 59

Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

The year was 1998. The company of eight was engaged in web design, which, early in the growth of middle-sized business on the web, was hot at the time. And yes, his partner had a valid suit, having been locked out of the web-design business and denied access to decisions and accounting information. The background for my story.

Pre-Money Valuation 48

Pre-Money Valuation Sales Liquidity Event Valuation 48

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

These new cellular phone networks were built around two-way circuit switched technology designed to move voice calls without interruption. In 1998 RIM quickly followed this up with a next generation product with an 8-line display, ran on AA batteries and would last 500 hours. But it was the software that made the TiVo great.

Hockey Stick 272

Hockey Stick Customer Development Silicon Valley Networking 272

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2018

In the beginning of any technology revolution the technology gets ahead of the institutions designed to measure and regulate safety and standards. These began to appear in cars in the late 1980’s/1990’s and were required in 1998. How do you design for situation awareness ? This feature was finally required in 2013.

Technical Review 293

Technical Review Engineer New York Design 293

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 2, 2010

Think different (Apple) – 1998. You can leverage crowdSPRING’s community of more than 65,000 designers and writers to come up with your tagline , or you can come up with one on your own. Make sure that the style, voice, and other elements of your tagline match the style, voice and other elements of your logo design.

Social Media 131

Social Media Matching Audience California 131

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 2, 2010

Think different (Apple) – 1998. You can leverage crowdSPRING’s community of more than 65,000 designers and writers to come up with your tagline , or you can come up with one on your own. Make sure that the style, voice, and other elements of your tagline match the style, voice and other elements of your logo design.

Social Media 131

Social Media Matching California Audience 131

K9 Ventures

AUGUST 13, 2010

In fact, at the time (1996-1997) we offered both a downloadable product, that our customers could install on their own servers, and a “hosted-offering”, which came to be known as “On-Demand”, then the “ASP” (Application Service Provider) model, and today we call it “SaaS” (Software as a Service). The product worked.

Revenue 72

Revenue Developer Java Customer Development 72

ConversionXL

JUNE 4, 2019

As Harvard Business School professor Susan Fournier noted in 1998 , “A brand has no objective existence at all: it is simply a collection of perceptions held in the mind of the consumer.”. It also highlights Android phones’ unique designs and features and subtly challenges Apple’s dominance of the smartphone market. Image Source).

Marketing 125

Marketing Audience Green Architecture 125

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

We had two prospective clients this past week where their overall site design was good enough that they didn’t need a full redesign. You may have a great product or service and great design on your existing site, but you know you could be doing better. Good design isn’t. Good design is problem solving.”. –

Design 100

Design Analytics Software Review Conversion 100

crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! You’ll find a link to the large version of the map in the Design section below. The Calvin & Hobbes Super-Stupendous Guide to Design – [link].

Social Media 95

Social Media Small Business Design Media 95

Seeing Both Sides

JULY 21, 2014

In 1998, Yom Kippur fell on September 30th. For me and my Jewish CEO boss, though, as officers of a public software company, September 30 was a tough day to be out of the office, sitting in synagogue atoning for a year full of sins. We priced our enterprise software in the form of a perpetual license. million to $22.5

Revenue 54

Revenue Valuation Churn Rate Portfolio 54

Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

The year was 1998. The company of eight was engaged in web design, hot at the time. The company made little effort to charge for the software or community. And here were over a million users, with no apparent value to the web designers, except as a community of friends with similar interests.

Liquidity Event 59

Liquidity Event Pre-Money Valuation Sales Valuation 59

Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

When I decided I wanted to start a company, I realized that I needed to pick up certain skills first, like product management, knowledge of online services, and a practical understanding of commercial software development. Steve Jobs and Brian Chesky added design, for example. Like many first time founders, I ran over that landmine.

Silicon Valley 69

Silicon Valley Venture Capital Balance Sheet Cofounder 69

Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

When I decided I wanted to start a company, I realized that I needed to pick up certain skills first, like product management, knowledge of online services, and a practical understanding of commercial software development. Steve Jobs and Brian Chesky added design, for example. Like many first time founders, I ran over that landmine.

Silicon Valley 69

Silicon Valley Venture Capital Balance Sheet Networking 69

Hearpreneur

JUNE 14, 2017

It was 1998 and the internet wasn’t exactly readily available. It sounds simple now, but in 1998 it was unheard of. Thanks to Nick Chandi, SlickPie Accounting Software ! #8 Our mission is to help design lovers buy and sell chic furnishings in a beautiful, easy-to-use and super fun marketplace. What was happening?

Entrepreneur 127

Entrepreneur South Africa PR Thailand 127

www.ere.net

JULY 15, 2012

If you’re targeting top performers or poaching from competitors, the remaining steps of the recruiting process must be designed to “fit” the needs in the job search process of your targeted candidate if you expect to even gain their attention.

Hiring 57

Hiring Metrics Search Widget 57

www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

I wanted to work in the pure, intellectual world of software, not deal with customers mundane problems. Some believe only businesspeople can do this-- that hackers can implement software, but not design it. But it turned outthey didnt like us, because our software was easy to use and we hostedthe site. Thats nonsense.

Startup 105

Startup Cofounder Software Stock 105

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Was it massively better software, better companies, better markets? MySpace was: scantily dressed, teenaged, middle-America, design chaos and on ad steroids. Third-party software companies will start to offer features to websites to actually drive social features. reinvented, with more people online and trained. The Present Era.

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Internet Technical Review 318

Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 19, 2014

The barrier to flying cars is not in the design or building of a viable airframe. The ready availability of these consumer-grade autopilots suggests that navigation in open air by software is no more challenging (and may be less so) than navigating ground-level streets. Dude, Where’s my Flying Car?

Artificial Inteligence 183

Artificial Inteligence Government Nevada Cost 183

Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

After I left academia (too slow moving) and the consultancy company I worked for (lack of vision), four friends and I applied that puzzle-solving passion to creating software for solving supply chain puzzles. I couldn’t sew or draw so becoming a fashion designer was out. ” Thanks to Ajay Prasad, GMR Web Team ! #25)

Entrepreneur 48

Entrepreneur Australia Technical Review Community 48

VC Cafe

OCTOBER 9, 2011

Professor Daniel Shechtman of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology has been designated the winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2011 for his discovery of quasicrystals – a new form of matter that has become a major subject field for physicists, materials scientists, mathematicians, and crystallographers.

Argentina 90

Argentina Paraguay Brazil 90

ConversionXL

DECEMBER 9, 2013

It’s also long been recognized that Atmospheric Marketing - or ”the effort to design buying environments to produce specific emotional effects in the buyer that enhance purchase probability” – has been an effective way of increase purchases for physical retail locations. Emotional Design Influences Sales.

Sales 126

Sales B2B Campaign Video 126

Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. So where does Salesforces profitability stands today compared to the most successful on premise public software companies? traditional software is like cocaine--youre hooked. Labels: SaaS , software.

Software Review 48

Software Review Software Technical Review Cloud 48

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

I managed to visit Seattle as part of the Australian national Magic The Gathering team in 1998, so that was the highlight of my career as a professional Magic player. I changed the design a few times. The person who owns this blog is Michael Pollack, and he was a web designer and small business fan. It’s very simple.

Technical Review 76

Technical Review Software Review Prospectus Audience 76

alexpoole.info

AUGUST 14, 2012

User experience design and research. Case study: Icon design. Back in 1998 when Times New Roman was still widely used on the web, my then boss made sure we always designed our web sites with Arial, as she hated the look of serif fonts on the web. Lund, 1997, 1998, 1999 ). Alex Poole. Site français. Skip to content.

Technical Review 85

Technical Review Software Review Design Georgia 85

www.paulgraham.com

AUGUST 1, 2008

In essense, let the market design the product. We think of the techniques were developing for dealing with large numbers of startups as like software. Sometimes it literally is software, like. It will probably involve writing some software, but fortunately we can do that. Weve done the same thing ourselves. Well have to.

Web 54

Web Startup Silicon Valley Technical Review 54

Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

Prior to joining Andreessen Horowitz, I held several executive positions in a publicly-traded software company and was previous to that an investment banker. 1990-1998 13.3% 22% 1990-1998 13.3% 1990-1998 10% 6.3% First, as the below chart shows, IPO pops are not a new phenomenon. Time Period IPO Pop* 1980-1989 6.1%

Accredited Investor 36

Accredited Investor SEC IPO Technical Review 36

Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

For this discussion, we were joined by CEOs Jared Hecht of Fundera, Joshua Reeves of ZenPayroll, Matt Rissell of TSheets, and our own Sabrina Parsons of LivePlan and Palo Alto Software. It’s designed for small and mid size companies and it all started based on a focus of the employees. Thank you Jared. Bates: Fantastic.

Small Business 95

Small Business Finance Forecast Metrics 95

Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

Until recently Showplace Square’s post-quake red-brick warehouses were home to furniture and interior design showrooms, but soon, if the real estate developers have their way and the tech economy continues to expand, they will be converted to offices filled with even more “techies.”

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San Francisco Silicon Valley California Oakland 20