crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Empower Your Small Business: 4 keys to success, 2014 trends, content marketing – crowdspring.co/19PV71E. Small Business and Startups: The Trends for 2014 (Pt I) | by Mike Samson - crowdspring.co/164zLP9. Small Business and Startups: The Trends for 2014 (Pt I) | by Mike Samson - crowdspring.co/164zLP9. 19IMztu. .

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

— Vijay Vijayasankar (@vijayasankarv) September 25, 2014. — Jeff Goldschrafe (@jgoldschrafe) September 24, 2014. — Chris Aniszczyk (@cra) September 25, 2014. Opens doors all through life. Also minimizes reinventing wheels. Such “thin” products derive from entrepreneurs with thin life experience.

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ithacaVC

OCTOBER 30, 2014

By April 2014, supported by a small round of funding with farmers as the initial investors ,they took what the original Cornell team had created and rebuilt it into a cloud-based solution. Today that same type of utility can be executed at a very small percentage of that cost.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 17, 2020

In 1999 he helped found LatinWorks, an agency that has consistently bent the rules of the Hispanic market by creating thought-provoking campaigns for some of the major advertisers in the space. The shop has been on AdAge’s ranking of the top ten agencies in the USA in 2014 and 2011 and was honored as Small Agency of the Year in 2012.

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Seeing Both Sides

DECEMBER 27, 2013

2014 is shaping up to be the Year of Results. We begin 2014 with a lot of optimism in the air. More and more companies are eyeing 2014 and research conducted by analyst firm 451 suggests it will be a record year for tech IPOs and also suggests M&A will see a strong increase in 2014 as compared to an already solid 2013.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

A study based out of Babson College via The Diana Project looked at venture capital investments in women between the years 1999 and 2014. Unfortunately, Babson also found that the number of women involved in venture firms has dropped; as of 2014, it was 6 percent, compared to 10 percent in 1999.

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Start Up Blog

MARCH 4, 2021

Australia had a currency change as recently as 1966 and the Euro arrived only in 1999. At my first book launch in 2014, I accepted Bitcoin as payment. If they debase their dollars, a simple transition to a new government crypto could kibosh the debasing issue in one simple move. I’ve been bullish on Crypto for almost a decade.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

In 1999, Craigslist initiated this change by listing rental properties online. On the rental front, Cozy, a lease-based tech startup, obtained nearly six-and-a-half million in speculative resources before mid-year 2014. However, the numbers just keep growing. DYI Real Estate Tech Startups.

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The Equity Kicker

JANUARY 28, 2015

It has taken us a long time to get over the 1999/2000 bubble and build a sustainable ecosystem. As the months go by the positive evidence is accumulating and I’m starting to think that 2014 or 2015 may be that year. These are two great charts!

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The Equity Kicker

JUNE 17, 2015

Firstly this table comparing 1999 and 2014 on key bubble-related metrics. Earlier this week Benedict Evans/Andreessen Horowitz published a great deck with their thoughts on whether we are in a bubble or not. The whole thing is well worth a read, but two slides stood out for me.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 31, 2014

In 2014, it’s easy to reflect on what has happened over the last seven years and feel good about it. The collapse of the Internet bubble was not kind to us and by 2005 it was clear that our second fund – raised in 1999 – was a disaster, and our third fund – raised in 2000 – was off to a very rocky start.

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View from Seed

JUNE 17, 2015

My first startup job was as an early employee at PayPal, where I took a job at the end of ‘1999 and started a few months later in 2000. A few months back I saw a founder/CEO with nearly all of his ~100 person SaaS company hard at work, closing their final deal of 2014 at 11:00pm New Years Eve.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 7, 2016

In fact, in a 2014 study , Wolfgang Digital found, that both time spent on site, and pages viewed have good, positive correlations with conversions. Collaborative filtering in eCommerce product recommendations was first implemented at scale by Amazon (they filed their initial patent for item-to-item collaborative filtering as early as 1999).

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 29, 2018

And in 2014 chosen as one of the “40 under 40” European young leaders. Since 1999 I have worked in every aspect of the import/export arena gaining extensive experience with various trade relations and regulations, utilizing my vast knowledge and experience in sales, marketing, and strategic networking.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

I began my business in 2014 because, well, it was just time. I was intrigued when digital photography started taking off, but I didn’t buy my first digital camera until 1999, when my daughter was born. My oldest son, Coby Joshua, was born with Down syndrome in 1999. 12 – It was Just Time. Image Credit: Jane Scudder.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 1, 2016

He has served as president of StorageMart since founding the company with his brother, Mike Burnam, in 1999. Cris was named a 2014 EY Entrepreneur of the Year in the Services and Real Estate category (Central Midwest region) — one of the highest honors an American entrepreneur can receive. and Canada.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 30, 2015

In January of 1999, I co-founded a marketing agency with a former boss. I am an entrepreneur and started my business in 2014. For creatives, it is a global stage for creativity where title and experience don’t matter. Thanks to Mike Samson, crowdSPRING. #3 3 – I was Fired Twice. Image Credit : Kent Lewis.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 16, 2019

While the term was new, many of the ideas aligned with “ permission marketing ,” which Seth Godin brought into marketers’ consciousness in 1999 and contrasted with “interruption marketing.” For Drift, founded in 2014, that was easier said than done: Drift didn’t go all-in on “conversational marketing” until 2018.

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Austin Startup

MAY 14, 2019

However, the seeds had been planted between 1995 and 1999 with the opening of several hackerspaces and “work clubs” devoted to bringing people together and instilling a sense of community while working. One of the first early coworking spaces (although the term “coworking” wasn’t used yet) was called 116 West Houston in New York City.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 6, 2019

My number one goal in 1999 when my wife (fiancé at the time) Abby and I started our firm was to create a business that allowed us to raise and support our family on our own terms—just like my parents’ business allowed them to do for more than 30 years. I sold the spa in 2014 (age of 37) and I have never looked back, not once.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 24, 2019

The concept of “economic moats” came from a 1999 Fortune article by Warren Buffett: The key to investing is [.] WhatsApp focused on driving user adoption, and Facebook bought the company in 2014 without knowing how to monetize users. Economic moats remain tethered to investing: A bigger moat makes a stock a better bet.

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Mucker Lab

MARCH 19, 2015

From January 2014 to June 2014, its monthly revenue doubled (source: WSJ ). Between January 2014 to Dec 2014 Uber’s monthly revenue tripled again (source: Henry Blodget ). June 2014 GROSS revenue is ~$200M. big f’ing deal; 2014 Uber is an interesting company; 2015 Uber is an absolute gorilla.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In 1999, Jack Ma created Alibaba , a Chinese-based B2B marketplace for connecting small and medium enterprise with potential export opportunities. RigUp was founded by Xuan Yong and Mike Witte in Austin, Texas in March of 2014. Four years later, in May of 2003, they launched Taobao Marketplace, Alibaba’s answer to eBay.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 20, 2014

Last year, the VC industry partied like its 1999. Danny Cohen, Partner at Carmel Ventures and keynote speaker at the upcoming Marketing & Ad;Tech Israel conference, discusses three trends impacting 2014 Israeli digital media: Content Marketing, Next-Gen Publishing and Mobile Advertising. Some of the frenzy is driven by Wall Street.

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

But back in 1999, a then very young Netflix based in Los Gatos with less than 20 employees, was on the edge of going bust. This contributed to what was in 2014, before the move to streaming, a roughly $20 billion business. Let me also add that there’s little as powerful as a marketing person that’s also strong at product.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

MAY 4, 2013

We’re also rapidly becoming known as the go-to firm for training in innovation process and corporate storytelling (Kate Hammer’s StormForms is getting rave reviews, book her now or you’ll be talking 2014). ” For USA purchasers, IdeaKeg Single is priced at US $1999 including shipping.

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The Equity Kicker

JANUARY 19, 2016

— Mark Suster (@msuster) December 14, 2014. All three of these are far from easy, but it is raising capital which is the hardest, particularly here in Europe where the venture industry is only just losing the awful reputation it gained during the 1999-2000 bubble. NotGlamorous. I agree with him, but the reasons are complex.

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ConversionXL

MAY 31, 2017

Messenger (1998), and MSN/Windows Live Messenger (1999). That was up from 30% in 2014. It’s been around since the mid-1990s. The first wave of messaging software arrived with ICQ (launched in 1996), followed by AIM (1997), Yahoo! web chat, or a real-time messaging tool that can be accessed via your website and/or in-app).

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Cheskin Research & Studio Archetype found as far back as 1999 that the 6 most important factors in building trust with an eCommerce company are : Brand. This isn’t a new problem, and “Brand Identity” isn’t just some squishy thing to be shuffled off. Navigation. Fufillment. Presentation. Up-to-Date Technology. &

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

In 2014, for example, 18 IPOs raised a record-breaking $9.8 Cohen said that moving the headquarters to the United States had been talked about for some time after the company was founded, in 1999. Indeed, the pattern of scaling seems to be changing meaningfully in recent years. billion, compared to just $1.2 billion in 2013.

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Cracking the Code

JUNE 24, 2021

But the Valley in 1999 was a new world of startups, venture capital, and stock options. 1999/2000 was the startup heyday, and I was in the hot space of telecoms – it all looked promising. The original plan was to finish my master’s degree, do a PhD at Berkeley, and become a scientist. And that was the start of an interesting journey.

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Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

From Boom Summer 2014, Vol 4, No 2. Governor Jerry Brown, State of the State speech, January 2014. The graphic is a map of “Tech Hot Spots” printed in the San Francisco Business Times (21-27 February 2014). A Wired article entitled “Will 2014 Be the Year the Tech Bubble Bursts?” The view from our window.

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Start Up Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2019

I liken it to the dot-com bubble of 1999. Just think of this: Mark Zuckerberg is in control of more people than anyone, ever, in history. To date, its market capitalisation has now increased fourfold since the IPO. Welcome to the Zuckerberg Dynasty. What happened: Facebook buys WhatsApp + Amazon Echo is launched.

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VC Cafe

MAY 21, 2021

Israel’s high-tech industry did the same back in 2014, during the last major conflict with Hamas. As a Jew who grew up in Germany and moved to Israel in 1999, I find this stoic philosophy Israelis display as one of the country’s key elements of success. Photo Credit: AFP.

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Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

Here's one: The number of people watching YouTube per day is up 40% YoY since March 2014! kbps circa 1999 quality. This has fallen from 2014, it was 4.21%. Bonus: Facebook Advertising / Marketing: Best Metrics, ROI, Business Value. 2BR02B: YouTube for Businesses. YouTube is incredible. Any stat you look at is impressive.

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